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In his Uses of Enchantment (1976), it was psychologist Bruno Bettelheim`s assertion that the apparently cruel and arbitrary nature of many fairy tales actually are an instructive reflection of a child`s natural and necessary "killing off" of successive phases in his or her own development.
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After weeks of uncertainty about the course the country would pursue to stabilize its troubled economy, officials reached a revised agreement with the International Monetary Fund, pledging the enforcement of substantially greater budget discipline as that which was originally promised and to keep inflation below ten percent.
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A new satellite sweeping over the poles at altitudes of up to 32,000 miles is called POLAR, giving scientists their best look yet at the magnetosphere, the region of space under the invisible influence of Earth`s magnetic field.
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The treasury market dropped in response to a decrease in the value of the dollar and to continued concern that the economy might be growing as fast as to accelerate inflation and drive interest rates higher.
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Like Rousseau, Tolstoi rebelled against the unnatural complexity of human relations in modem society.
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Japanese researchers are producing a series of robots that can identify human facial expressions, to which they will then respond; their goal is primarily creating a robot that will empathize with us.
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Despite a growing population, in 1998 the United States used 38 billion fewer gallons of water a day when comparing it to the period of all-time highest consumption almost 20 years earlier.
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Analysts believe that whereas bad decisions by elected leaders can certainly hurt the economy, no administration can really be said to control or manage all of the complex and interrelated forces that determine the nation`s economic strength.
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Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911,Scott Joplin's ragtime opera＂Treemonisha＂was not produced until 1972,sixty-one years after its completion.
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Nearly unrivaled in their biological diversity, coral reefs provide a host of benefits that includes the supply of protein for people, protecting shorelines, and they contain biochemical sources for new life-saving medicines.
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Literacy opened up entire realms of verifiable knowledge to ordinary men and women having been previously considered incapable of discerning truth for themselves.
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In early Mesopotamian civilization, castor oil served not only as a laxative, but also a skin-softening lotion and it was a construction lubricant for sliding giant stone blocks over wooden rollers.
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An analysis of tree bark all over the globe shows that chemical insecticides have often spread thousands of miles from where they were originally used.
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Consumers may not think of household cleaning products to be hazardous substances, but many of them can be harmful to health, especially if they are used improperly.
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According to the Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County, if one were to count the Los Angeles metropolitan area as a separate nation, it would have the world`s eleventh largest gross national product, that is bigger than that of Australia, Mexico, or the Netherlands.
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Initiated five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World on Columbus Day 1992, project SETI pledged a $100 million investment in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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According to some economists,the July decrease in unemployment so that it was the lowest in two years suggests that the gradual improvement in the job market is continuing.
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Developed by Pennsylvania's Palatine Germans about 1750, they made Conestoga wagons with high wheels capable of crossing rutted roads, muddy flats, and the nonroads of the prairie and they had a floor curved upward on either end so as to prevent cargo from shifting on steep grades.
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The Baldrick Manufacturing Company has for several years followed a policy aimed at decreasing operating costs and improving the efficiency of its distribution system.
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Some buildings that were destroyed and heavily damaged in the earthquake last year were constructed in violation of the city's building code.
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