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India, like Italy and China, has no single dominant cuisine: Indian fo

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The parachutelike membranes of Africa's scaly-tailed flying squirrels

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According to analysts, an alliance between three major personal comput

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Carnivorous mammals can endure what would otherwise be lethal levels

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Like many self-taught artists, Perle Hessing did not begin to paint

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Where once the union had acquiesced to the prejudices of its English

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Research has shown that the ancient Mesoamerican ballgame did not alwa

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Since 1989, after the Berlin Wall had been demolished, one of the most

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The author Herman Melville and the poet Walt Whitman are icons of Amer

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Based on recent box office receipts, the public's appetite for documen

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Out of the public’s interest in the details of and conflicts in other

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According to a recent study by Rutgers University, the number of women

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Financial institutions have begun demanding that analysts design a rep

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It seems likely that a number of astronomical phenomena, such as the

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According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 20

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A recent study, published by the California Bureau of Employment, foun

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At an orientation meeting, the travelers were told that a visa, a land

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The treaty specifies that the economy of the member nations have infla

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After all the recent political changes, the Syrians are figuring out

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The herbicide Oryzalin was still being produced in 1979, three years

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A scrub jay can remember when it cached a particular place, researcher

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Stymieing the Armadas plans to meet up with the Duke of

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Laboratory rats and mice live up to 40% longer than usual when fed a

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Florida s Gainesville-Hawthorne State Trail, a mixed-use

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Maxwell’s theory of Electromagnetism in 1865 was the first “unified fi

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Unlike the nests of leaf cutters and most other ants, situated undergr

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As U.S. nuclear attack submarines prowl their familiar haunts deep wit

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Critics say that the government had fallen in the recent election

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While many argue that we must reduce our dependence on fossil fuels by

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The people of the ancient Near East believed that the Earth’s dry land

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Announcing that one of its key successes had been the recent

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In comparison with tropical cyclone systems, subtropical cyclone syste

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In July 1965 Mariner IV passed by Mars and took the first-ever close-u

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A new satellite sweeping over the poles at altitudes of up to 32,000

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For almost a hundred years after having its beginning in 1788, England

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Atul Gawande the former surgeon general in his book The Checklist

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A cricketer trying to predict the outcome of the one day world cup mat

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In 1929 relatively small declines in the market ruined many speculator

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People who inherit the sickle cell anemia gene from only one parent

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Midway through the parade, the rodeo queen from New Mexico appeared—a

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A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages

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Despite no proof that the consumption of any particular foods reverse

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In a state of pure commercial competition, there would be a large numb

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In one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought at Sharpsburg

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Desertification, a process in which the biological productivity of the

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NASA’s methodical approach to the exploration of Mars has not yet answ

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