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1998 Passage5
Scattered around the globe are more than 100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known to geologists as hot spots.
Unlike most of the world's volcanoes,

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1998 Passage4
Emerging from the 1980 census is the picture of a nation developing more and more regional competition,
as population growth in the Northeast and Midwest reaches a

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1998 Passage3
Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture.
Think of Gallileo's 17th-century trial for his rebelling belief
before the Catholic

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1998 Passage2
Well, no gain without pain, they say.
But what about pain without gain?
Everywhere you go in America,you hear tales of corporate revival.
What is harder to establ

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1998 Passage1
Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams.
Perhaps it is humankind's long suffering at the mercy of flood and drought
that makes

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1997 Passage5
Much of the language used to describe monetary policy,
such as "steering the economy to a soft landing"or "a touch on the brakes",
makes it sound like a precise sc

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1997 Passage4
No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation.
"Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?"
Senator Robert Dole a

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1997 Passage3
Technically, any substance other than food that alters our bodily or mental functioning is a drug.
Many people mistakenly believe the term drug refers only to some

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1997 Passage2
A report consistently brought back by visitors to the US is how friendly, courteous,
and helpful most Americans were to them.
To be fair, this observation is also

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1997 Passage1
It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken.
After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates,
Australia's Northern T

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1996 Passage5
Rumor has it that more than 20 books on creationism/evolution are in the publisher's pipelines.
A few have already appeared.
The goal of all will be to try to

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1996 Passage4
What accounts for the great outburst of major inventions in early America
--breakthroughs such as the telegraph,
the steamboat and the weaving machine?
Among the

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1996 Passage3
In the last half of the nineteenth century "capital"and "labour" were enlarging and perfecting their rival organizations on modern lines.
Many an old firm was repla

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1996 Passage2
With the start of BBC World Service Television,
millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporation's news coverage,as well as listen to it.

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1996 Passage1
Tight-lipped elders used to say,"It's not what you want in this world, but what you get.”
Psychology teaches that you do get what you want if you know what you

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1995 Passage5
That experiences influence subsequent behaviour is evidence of an obvious but nevertheless remarkable activity called remembering.
Learning could not occur without

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1995 Passage4
Personality is to a large extent inherent--A-type parents usually bring about A-type offspring.
But the environment must also have a profound effect,
since if comp

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1995 Passage3
In such a changing,complex society formerly simple solutions to informational needs become complicated.
Many of life's problems which were solved by asking fami

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1995 Passage2
There are two basic ways to see growth:one as a product, the other as a process.
People have generally viewed personal growth as an external result or product that

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1995 Passage1
Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of.
It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price,
thereby establi

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1994
Passage5
Discoveries in science and technology are thought by "untaught minds" to come in blinding flashes or as the result of dramatic accidents.
Sir Alexander Fleming did

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1994
Passage4
"I have great confidence that by the end of the decade we'll know in vast detail how cancer cells arise,"
says microbiologist Robert Weinberg, an expert on can

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1994
Passage3
Exceptional children are different in some significant way from others of the same age.
For these children to develop to their full adult potential,
their educati

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1994
Passage2
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued credit card.
They give their owners automatic credit in stores,
restaurants, and hotels,

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1994
Passage1
The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise,
market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produce