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On a glacier in the High Himalayas, a Japanese zoologist has found a species of midge that is unlike any other known insect in its spending its entire life cycle in the snow and ice of a glacier.
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Despite the criticism in the early 1890's that if journalists use pictures the intellectual quality of publications would diminish, by the late 1890's photographs were found in most newspapers and magazines.
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The airline's proposed purchases of as many as 250 medium-range planes will probably be the basis of an overhaul of its routes; it is expected that they will increase the number of direct point-to-point flights, instead of continue to use feeder aircraft to bring passengers to major hubs.
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A recent poll of elected officials suggests that candidates, when in the midst of a tough campaign, often make statements about an opponent that they may not think is true.
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Over the past few years, banks have systematically raised their old fees and invented new ones that are harder and harder for consumers to avoid.
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In the English-speaking world Anton Chekhov is by far better known for his plays than for his short stories, but it was during his lifetime that Chekhov's stories made him popular while his plays were given a more ambivalent reception, even by his fellow writers.
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The region of Norden is comprised of five sovereign states, each of which recognize a stronger cultural bond to their Nordic neighbors than to any other cultural grouping.
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The typical size difference between males and females has lessened since the origins of the human species because the size increase in males has been slight while the size increase in females has been great.
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In 1982, archaeologists recovered Henry VIII's ship Mary Rose, which, having sunk in 1545,with more than 17,000 artifacts on board, everything from arrows and longbows to a barber-surgeon's chest containing items commonly used by sixteenth-century medics.
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In undisturbed primary forests, the Honduran mahogany grows up to a height of 130 feet, having a buttressed trunk and a crown that spread over the canopy of lesser trees.
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The rain has flooded drainage canals in many orange-tree groves, which has caused the fruit to fall before it ripen and also threatened to kill the trees.
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Even though interest rates rose last year, they were not nearly as high as the early 1980s, when the economy tumbled into a recession and markets were depressed.
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The industrial pollutants known as PCB's were first manufactured in 1929 and were used as coolants for electrical equipment in Europe and North America the 1970s, when studies showed that the compounds had entered the food chain and were harmful to some animals.
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The Scandinavian assault on Western Europe culminated in the early eleventh century with the Danish conquest of the English kingdom, which other Scandinavian kings attempted to repeat, unsuccessfully later in the same century.
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Geologists have found that streams in the Karoo basin of South Africa changed suddenly at the end of the Permian period 250 million years ago, from the meandering shape typically found in well-vegetated zones to the braided pattern found in areas without deep-rooted vegetation to hold the soil together.
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Laboratory rats and mice live up to 40 percent longer than usual when fed a diet of at least 30 percent fewer calories than that which they would normally eat, but that otherwise contains all necessary vitamins and nutrients.
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The author of the passage mentions the control of ceremonies by particular Hopi clans most in order to
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The passage suggests that sociocultural change in Hopi society between 1680 and 1880 was
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It can be inferred from the passage that if scientists were able to measure the position and momentum of quantum objects precisely and simultaneously, then the
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Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?
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