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779
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Unlike the nests of leaf cutters and most other ants, situated underground or in pieces of wood, raider ants make a portable nest by entwining their long legs to form "curtains" of ants that hang from logs or boulders, providing protection for the queen and the colony larvae and pupae.
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780
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Turtles, like other reptiles, can endure long fasts, in their ability to survive on weekly or even monthly feedings; however, when food is readily available, they may eat frequently and grow very fat.
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781
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Thai village crafts, as with other cultures, have developed through the principle that form follows function and incorporate readily available materials fashioned using traditional skills.
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782
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To estimate the expansion rate of the universe is a notoriously difficult problem because there is a lack of a single yardstick that all distances can be measured by.
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783
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The Commerce Department reported that the nations economy grew at a brisk annual pace of 3.7 percent in the second quarter, but that while businesses were expanding their production, unsold goods piled up on store shelves as consumer spending is slowed sharply.
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784
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Thomas Mann`s novel Doctor Faustus offers an examination not only of how difficult it is to reconcile reason, will, and passion together in any art form, but also a skillfully navigated exploration of the major concerns of modernism .
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785
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According to a recent study, retirees in the United States are four times more likely to give regular financial aid to their children as to receive it from them.
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786
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Discussion of greenhouse effects have usually had as a focus the possibility of Earth growing warmer and to what extent it might, but climatologists have indicated all along that precipitation, storminess, and temperature extremes are likely to have the greatest impact on people.
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787
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In the seventh century B.C. the Roman alphabet was adapted from the Etruscan alphabet, which in turn had been adapted in the previous century from a western Greek alphabet, which itself had been adapted earlier in the same century from the Phoenician alphabet.
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788
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The foundation works to strengthen local and regional agricultural markets and cooperating with governments, improving access for farmers for productive resources such as land and credit.
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789
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A professor at the university has taken a sabbatical to research on James Baldwin's books that Baldwin wrote in France while he was living there.
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790
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When working with overseas clients, an understanding of cultural norms is at least as important as grasping the pivotal business issues for the global manager.
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791
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Often major economic shifts are so gradual as to be indistinguishable at first from ordinary fluctuations in the financial markets.
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792
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Researchers now regard interferon as not a single substance, but it is rather a biological family of complex molecules that play an important, though not entirely defined, role in the immune system.
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793
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The remarkable similarity of Thule artifacts throughout a vast region can, in part, be explained as a very rapid movement of people from one end of North America to the other.
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794
|
Regulators are likely to end what are, in effect, long-standing
exemptions permitting pilots of small turboprop aircraft at small carriers to
fly as much as 20 percent more hours per month than pilots at larger airlines
fly, with the consequence that some carriers could be forced to hire additional
pilots.
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795
|
Self-compassion is made up of mindfulness, the ability to manage
thoughts and emotions without being carried away or repressing them,
common humanity, or empathy with the suffering of others, and self-kindness, a
recognition of your own suffering and a commitment to solving the problem.
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796
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According to the laws of this nation, individuals are minors until they reach
the age of eighteen, although this is less in some countries and more in others.
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797
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Rather than ignore a company that seems about to fail, investment analysts
should recognize that its reorganization and recent uptick in revenue, combined
with its dynamic new leadership, indicate that the firm`s prospects must be taken
seriously.
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798
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Between 14,000 and 8,000 B.C. the ice cap that covered northern Asia, Europe, and America began to melt, uncovering vast new areas that were to be occupied by migrating peoples moving northward.
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