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Those who study ancient European history soon realize that before Gree

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The policy of applying indirect taxes, like value added tax and excise

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One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland was to conver

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The reserve bank of India examines macro-economic

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In almost every country, free, mobile-to-mobile viewing is

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Consumption of bread products made from ergot-infected grains often

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Studies of test scores show that watching television has a markedly

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Computational analyses of data is used for the construction

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Responding to the public’s fascination with―and sometimes undue alarm

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The yield per acre of coffee berries varies enormously in

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After the company recalled one of its best-selling products, it would

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Archaeologists in Egypt have excavated a 5,000-year-old

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

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Roughly one-half of the worlds population, including virtually all of

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During the eighteenth century, widespread changes in agriculture, know

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Besides adding complementary flavors to many foods, hot sauces stim

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

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Now that so much data travels via light—i.e., is carried in glass fibe

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With surface temperatures estimated at minus 230 degrees Fahrenheit, J

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The boom in agricultural exports in the early 1970’s emptied United St

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The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to three scientists for their

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Because Miranda, the smallest moon of Uranus, has a large number of

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In the early twentieth century, an extraordinary painter

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More than twenty-one centuries ago,

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Neuroscientists, having amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past

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Published anonymously and first attributed to George Eliot,

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While the stock market was bouncing back from its 2002 low, U.S.

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The doctrinal dispute resulted in the dismissal of the president of th

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The four-million-year-old fossilized skeleton known as Lucy is so smal

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Plants are more efficient at acquiring carbon than are fungi, in the

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Managing your irrigation system well and watering your grass wisely no

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Though the city had been bombed for fifty-seven nights in a

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All of the letters in the Cyrillic alphabet, one of which is

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Because the time between the announcement of the programs

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By the time the children get home from track practice, their

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Not all employment selection mechanisms that have a “disparate effect,

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Rejecting the apprenticeship model of training social workers in phila

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Due to poaching and increased cultivation in their native habitats, re

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Before George Eliot became the popular and respected

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Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, two volcanoes situated just

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The coloration of insects can serve as camouflage, as in the

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Research has shown that the ancient Mesoamerican ballgame did not alwa

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Concerned that economic recovery is not as complete as

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Like many other theropods discovered in the Yixian Formation, a coat

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