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Efforts to educate people about the risks of substance abuse seem to deter some people from using dangerous substances, if such effects are realistic about what is genuinely dangerous and what is not
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Animal signals, such as the complex songs of birds, tend to be costly
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In some ways the employment interview is like a persuasive speech because the applicant (interviewee) seeks to persuade the employer (interviewer) to employ him or her
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If you smoke and you still dont believe that theres a definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, then you are certainly deceiving yourself
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If you found yourself in a cocktail bar with a Neanderthal man, what would he say? A good conversation is one of the great joys of being human, but it is not clear just how far back in the hominid lineage the ability to use language stretches
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A few common misconceptions
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Women are also underrepresented in the administration and this is because there are so few women full professors
阅读理解Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone
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For office innovators, the unrealized dream of the paperless office is a classic example of high-tech hubris
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However important we may regard school life be, there is no gainsaying to the feet that children spend more time at home than in the classroom
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In 1920, after some thirty-nine years of problems with disease, high costs, and politics, the Panama Canal was officially opened, finally linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by allowing ships to pass through the fifty-mile canal zone instead of traveling some seven thousand miles around Cape Horn
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In some ways the employment interview is like a persuasive speech because the applicant (interviewee) seeks to persuade the employer (interviewer) to employ him or her
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Britain and France are separated by the English Channel, a body of water that can be crossed in as few as 20 minutes
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Not even the combined powers of Spiderman, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America and the X-Men could keep The Mouse at bay
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There is a popular belief among parents that schools are no longer interested in spelling
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Across the country, university students sit in lectures every day, listening to someone speak for an hour in crowded theatres
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The Planning Commission asserts that the needed reduction in acute hospital beds can best be accomplished by closing the smaller hospitals, mainly voluntary and proprietary
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Around the world, people gather to explore their emotions through dance
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Summer was, for a while, a childs time, conferring an inviolate right to laziness
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Every day, millions of shoppers hit the stores in full force both online and on foot searching frantically for the perfect gift