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Discrimination in wages paid in occupations that are predominantly mal

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Paleontologists believe that fragments of a primate jawbone unearthed

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In virtually all types of tissue in every animal species, dioxin induc

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In all, fifteen or more Greenwich Capital employees have been tied to

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In the 1820’s, anthracite coalfields opened in eastern Pennsylvania

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Having extracted the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes from human DNA to isolate

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

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Among the largest of the flying squirrels is the Japanese giant flying

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Once the computer generates the financial reports, they are

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A CT scan, used to capture images inside the body, differs from an MRI

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Critical-thinking instruction is predicated on two assumptions: that

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Atul Gawande the former surgeon general in his book The Checklist

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The colorization of black-and-white films by computers is defended by

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Although a surge in retail sales have raised hopes that there is a rec

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Soaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending

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Several studies have found that the coronary patients who exercise mos

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The bank holds $3 billion in loans that are seriously delinquent or in

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By providing such services as mortgages, home improvement loans,

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Federal incentives now encourage investing capital in commercial offic

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In 1860, the Philological Society launched its effort to create a dict

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Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of compose

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After several years of rapid growth, the health care company became on

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Although Robonaut 2, the next generation humanoid robot built by NASA

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Some business experts think that allowing employees to buy their emplo

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Many kitchens today are equipped with high-speed electrical gadgets

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Contemporary cognitive scientists maintain that emotions

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Stymieing the Armadas plans to meet up with the Duke of

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Before 1988, insurance companies in California were free to charge wha

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The thirteen original British colonies in North America, some formed

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Noting that the Federal Reserve had raised a key short-term

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After weeks of uncertainty about the course the country would pursue

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Industrialization and modern methods of insect control have improved

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Stimulants, such as caffeine, can eliminate pain and fatigue and enhan

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In undisturbed primary forests, the Honduran mahogany grows

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Unlike many United States cities, where a river is no longer the focal

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

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In addition to her work on the Miocene hominid fossil record, Mary Lea

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Many house builders offer rent-to-buy programs that enable a

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The hognose snake puts on an impressive bluff, hissing and rearing bac

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Antarctica receives more solar radiation than does any other place on

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Shipwrecks are more likely to be found undisturbed at great depths tha

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According to medieval monks, the remains of King Arthur and Queen Guin

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A recent review of pay scales indicates that CEO's now earn an average

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Unlike the body's inflammatory response to cuts and sprains, with

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More than fifty years after the Second World War, a number of African

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Many financial experts believe that policy makers at the Federal Reser

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A new test for AIDS has proved helpful in eliminating blood

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Developing nations in various parts of the world have amassed $700 bil

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Books in European libraries last longer than books in libraries in the

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