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I have seldom felt so proud of being a representative of the people as

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The French biologist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) outlined a

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Atmospheric carbon dioxide (C02) has been increasing since 1700

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01 Jul 2023, 23:35

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In the two decades between 1910 and 1930, over ten percent to the blac

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In the 1980s, neuroscientists studying the brain processes underlying

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Although recent censure of corporate boards of directors as “passive”

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A recent generation of historians of science, far from portraying acce

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21 Aug 2013, 21:30

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Some observers have attributed the dramatic growth in temporary employ

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Most editors of literature consider it their main duty to present the

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Philosopher Denise Meyerson views the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) mov

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The pronghorn, an antelope-like mammal that lives on the western plain

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Ravens display many sophisticated behaviors in the wild. Experiments

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In 1988 services moved ahead of manufacturing as the main product of t

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Once surrounded and protected by vast wilderness, many of the national

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Historians of medieval marriage practices ascribe particular significa

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While many points are worth making in an evaluation of the single six-

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15 Jan 2014, 06:44

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14 Jun 2024, 00:03

As technological change continues at an unprecedented rate...

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10 Feb 2024, 00:53

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The outsourcing of production factories to locations overseas from com

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The authors of a recent study of the aftermath of a major wildfire in

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23 Apr 2024, 19:45

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Whales, the majestic giants of the ocean, face numerous threats in the

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Wherever the crime novels of P. D. James are discussed by critics, the

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Tocqueville, apparently, was wrong. Jacksonian America was not a fluid

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The biggest house of cards, the longest tongue and, of course, the

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05 Jul 2021, 23:51

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Nontraditional black women filmmakers share with the broader community

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Behind every book review there are two key figures: a book review edit

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Traditional theories of animal behavior assert that animal conflict wi

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In 1891, the federal government assumed responsibility from the states

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According to the "technocentric" approach-the model that shaped the

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Now that companies can quickly obtain goods, information, and

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That Native Americans in colonial North America were thrust into

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Often, the incentive for the acquisition or merger of competitive

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The traditional timeframe for the fall of the Roman Empire is around 4

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A regimen of intrauterine AZT (zidovudine) as a means of reducing the

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Many sociologists who examined the phenomenon of secrecy considered

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Despite increasing enrollments of women in medical schools, feelings o

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Although considered by some to be the exclusive province of a small,

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12 May 2019, 04:21

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In 1991, the issue of feminism resurfaced in the mainstream media on a

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10 Sep 2018, 17:38

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Although I am familiar with Rembrandt's work, through photographs and

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In the pantheon of great thinkers, Karl Marx certainly ranks as one of

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In the field of historiography—the writing of history based on a criti

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While there is no guarantee that increased investment in achieving

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In order to reverse public opinion and to duly compensate those who wo

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25 Jul 2020, 06:24

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Traditional research has confronted only Mexican and United States int

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09 Dec 2019, 00:08

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The US Constitution established both gold and silver as the basis of U

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12 Jan 2018, 12:45

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Many literary scholars believe that Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes We

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19 Jan 2019, 10:03

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As people age, their cells become less efficient and less able to repl

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A supernova is a brief stellar explosion so luminous that it can brief

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In prehistoric times brachiopods were one of the most abundant and div

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In the 1960s, Northwestern University sociologist John McKnight coined

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