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" Over the last several decades there has been a growing wave of concern over the use and abuse of mind-altering substances that has left in its wake increasingly large expenditures for what is familiarly called the "War on Drugs," despite the simultaneously ever-expanding body of evidence attesting to that war's failure. "
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" In Germany at the end of the First World War agricultural land was owned prevailingly by powerful squires in the east and by peasants in the south and west, with only a few large estates scattered in the center, south, and west. "
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" The passions of maternity are so sudden, intense and confusing that we ourselves often remain ignorant of this perspective, the thought that has developed from our mothering. "
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" Sondra Farganis, chairwoman of the social sciences at the New School for Social Research in New York City supports the importance of popular culture as a course of study . She also believes it belongs in the sociology or history departments. "
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" With every year that passes, Berenice Abbott looks more and more like what she is-one of the great irreducible Americans and one who will be remembered as long as there is anyone around who wants to know what America stood for and what manner of people Americans were. "
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" When Gerald and Beatrice Banu sought approval for refurbishing the cast iron balustrades that grace the front of their 114 year-old Greenwich Village brownstone, the New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission quickly gave its approval. "
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" It is... extremely important to recognize that for considerably complicated reasons, many adults either don't want to become involved in any friendship-relationships at all with their neighbors, or, if they do succumb to the need of some form of society, they strictly limit themselves to one or two friends, and no more. "
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" Science education at the undergraduate level faces an ever-growing challenge. As the wealth of scientific knowledge in a field such as cell biology grows, we are understandably pressed to present more and more information in order to keep undergraduate education up to date with the most exciting advances in research. "
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" One of the most striking features of the cities of the Middle East and North Africa, certainly during medieval times but to some extent persisting feebly to this day in the older residential quarters, is its subdivision into smaller quarters whose approximate boundaries remain relatively constant over time and whose names continue to be employed as important referential terms, even when they do not appear on modern markers of street names, etc. "
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" Urban Arts Corps (UAC) was founded in 1967 by Vinnette Carroll, who served as the company's premiere artistic director. It emerged as a pilot project of The Ghetto Arts Program. "