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Historically, famines have generally been followed by periods of risin
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In a certain university course, some of the students took their own ha
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The distinction that modern artists and art critics make between the a
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Compared to the old equipment used by factory workers to assemble circ
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A popular beach has long had a dolphin feeding program in which fish a
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An advertisement designed to convince readers of the great durability
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In the course of her researches, a historian recently found two docume
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In these modern times of fast food lunches, take-away dinners and read
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The ancient Greek playwright Euripides followed the established conve
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For several years, per capita expenditure on prescription drugs in Vor
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Nearly all adults in the community of Amaretti, including pregnant wom
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Sociobiologists, the most well known of whom is Edward 0. Wilson, cont
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When a major fire occurs in the city of Springfield, the number of med
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Research suggests that people who feel protected from a specific type
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The dynamic growth of the People’s Republic of China in rece
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A recent study of people who had successfully lost weight and implemen
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21 Feb 2021, 18:35
Countries that legalized the drug X twenty years ago, because a signif
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Some species of Arctic birds are threatened by recent sharp increases
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Since the late 1970s, in the face of a severe loss of market share in
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08 May 2022, 05:32
Decentralization enables divisions of a large institution to function
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Smokers who switched to a low-tar, light or mild brand of cigarette
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02 Aug 2021, 06:13
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Amusement rides at permanent fairgrounds are dismantled once a year f
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20 Aug 2021, 07:23
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Outsourcing is the practice of obtaining from an independent supplier
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02 Aug 2024, 03:30
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While there is no blueprint for transforming a largely government-cont
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14 Apr 2022, 00:29
Because postage rates are rising, Home Decorator magazine plans to max
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21 Sep 2021, 10:13
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Fame and fortune are often associated with virtue, industry, and a hos
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One proposal for preserving rain forests is to promote the adoption of
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16 Aug 2024, 22:48
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Current feminist theory, in validating womens own stories of their
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22 Jul 2022, 06:38
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More selective than most chemical pesticides in that they ordinarily
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Whales originated in the freshwater lakes and rivers of ancient Asia a
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17 Jul 2022, 10:20
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As the United States demonstrated during its early development, it is
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02 Aug 2021, 04:42
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Southern Haul Cargo Railway owns all of the railroad tracks in the cit
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New York stood at the center of the momentous processes that recast Am
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25 Aug 2023, 01:30
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Solar ponds are bodies of water in which circulation is incomplete and
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15 Oct 2022, 00:29
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New observations about the age of some globular clusters in our Milky
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28 Nov 2021, 10:03
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Beets and carrots are higher in sugar than many other vegetables. They
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10 Mar 2022, 11:07
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In American Genesis, which covers the century of technological innovat
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Toward the end of the 19th century, many scientists thought that all t
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08 Mar 2023, 02:23
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For the last several years, the most popular breed of dog in the Unite
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13 Nov 2021, 03:53
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Jennifer: Video rental outlets in Centerville together handled 10,000
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29 Sep 2023, 22:01
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If we look at the world around us and all that is happening therein,
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The American people have an incorrect understanding of what it means
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04 Jul 2023, 01:12
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Our police academy no longer requires its applicants to pass a physi
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24 Jul 2021, 01:08
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Freud’s theories of the workings of the mind, while brilliant for thei
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When people evade income taxes by not declaring taxable income, a vici
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21 Sep 2021, 10:13
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In the United States, average fuel efficiency of newly manufactured d
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11 May 2021, 02:39
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In an attempt to improve the overall performance of clerical workers,
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The United States government has a long-standing policy of using feder
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14 Jun 2022, 08:41
In an experiment, each volunteer was allowed to choose between an easy
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28 Jan 2022, 06:11
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In the pantheon of great thinkers, Karl Marx certainly ranks as one of
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