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819
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Many stock traders in the United States have set out to become global
investors, convinced that limiting their investments to the U.S. stock
market, even though it is certainly home to the stocks of some of the world`s
great corporations, restricted their gains.
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820
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According to scientists who monitored its path, an expanding cloud of energized particles ejected from the Sun recently triggered a large storm in the magnetic field that surrounds Earth, which brightened the Northern Lights and also possibly knocking out a communications satellite.
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821
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Because many of Australia's marsupials, such as the koala, are cute and cuddly, as well as being biologically different than North American marsupials they have attracted a lot of attention after their discovery in the 1700s.
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822
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Having been named for a mythological nymph who cared for the infant Jupiter, the asteroid named Ida, in the middle of the belt of asteroids that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, was discovered in 1884.
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823
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Custodian fees and expenses, as described in the statement of
operations, include interest expense incurred by the fund on any cash
overdrafts of its custodian account during the period.
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824
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Although some had accused Smith, the firm`s network manager, of
negligence when the crucial data went missing, the CEO defused a
situation that was quite tense with her public statement that the debacle
was not Smith`s fault.
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825
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Many utilities obtain most of their electric power from large coal and nuclear operations at costs that are sometimes two to three times higher as that of power from smaller, more efficient plants that can both make use of waste heat and take advantage of the current abundance of natural gas.
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826
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When viewed from the window of a speeding train, the speed with which nearby objects move seems faster than that of more distant objects.
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827
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Ramón pointed out that food high in whole-grain fiber creates the
energy we need to fight illnesses-as do vegetables and lean proteins.
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828
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The English physician Edward Jenner found that if experimental subjects were deliberately infected with cowpox, which caused only a mild illness, they are immune from smallpox.
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829
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The final decades of the twentieth century not only saw an explosion of the literary production among women, but there was also an intense Interest in the lives and works Of women writers.
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830
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Covering 71 percent of Earth`s surface, the oceans play an essential role in maintaining the conditions for human existence on land, moderating temperature by the absorption of heat and carbon dioxide, and giving pure water back to the atmosphere through evaporation.
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831
|
Although the rise in the Producer Price Index was greater than expected,most analysts agreed that the index was unlikely to continue going up and that inflation remained essentially under control.
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832
|
Severely hindered by problems with local suppliers, the fact that the AQ
division also had a new management team to adapt to was not seen by the board
of directors as a legitimate excuse for such low productivity.
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833
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The Eastern State Penitentiary was established in 1822 by reformers advocating that prisoners be held in solitary confinement and hard labor so as to reform them.
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834
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Some anthropologists believe that the genetic homogeneity evident in the world`s people is the result of a "population bottleneck" -at some time in the past our ancestors suffered an event, greatly reducing their numbers and thus our genetic variation.
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835
|
Through experimenting designed to provide information that will ultimately prove useful in the treatment of hereditary diseases, mice have received bone marrow transplants that give them a new gene
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836
|
Linking arrangements among secondary schools and the workplace
never evolved in the United States as they have in most other developed
countries.
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837
|
The United Parcel Service plans to convert its more than 2,000 gasoline-powered trucks in the Los Angeles area to run on cleaner-burning natural gas.
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838
|
Foraging at all times of the day and night, but interspersing their feeding with periods of rest that last between one and eight hours, a sperm whale could eat so much as a ton of squid a day.
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