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While there is no blueprint for transforming a largely government-controlled economy into a free one, the experience of the United Kingdom since 1979 ...
According to a recent theory, Archean-age gold-quartz vein systems were formed over two billion years ago from magmatic fluids that originated from mo...
Excess inventory, a massive problem for many busi- nesses, has several causes, some of which are unavoidable. Overstocks may accumulate through produc...
It was once assumed that all living things could be divided into two fundamental and exhaustive categories. Multicellular plants and animals, as well ...
Joseph Glarthaar's Forged in Battle is not the first excel- lent study of Black soldiers and their White officers in the Civil War, but it uses mo...
Historians sometimes forget that history is conunu- ally being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read. These latter activiti...
It was once believed that the brain was independent of metabolic processes occurring elsewhere in the body. In recent studies, however, we have discov...
Japanese firms have achieved the highest levels of manufacturing efficiency in the world automobile industry. Some observers of Japan have assumed tha...
Protein synthesis begins when the gene encoding a protein is activated. The gene's sequence of nucleotides is transcribed into a molecule of messe...