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Fourth Amendment search warrant procedures and legal exceptions

The need for a search warrant in the United States came after the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which requires law enforcement officials to obtain a search warrant before they can legally search a person's property or home.

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Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions: internet critiques and paradigms

Scientific development, and with it technological innovations, has been among one of the most powerful forces driving social and cultural progress since the beginning of recorded history, and indeed since prehistoric times.

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Military aircraft innovations in early commercial aviation development

Civil aviation deals with the organization and use of aircraft as a means of commercial transportation.

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McClelland's critique of intelligence testing and standardized assessment

Testing for Competence Rather Than for Intelligence'") is that it was published in 1973, thirty-seven years ago.

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Kepler's elliptical orbits and the history of astronomical observation

Johannes Kepler made important contributions to astronomy in the decades after Copernicus.

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Proposed national budget reallocating military spending to domestic programs

The debate over the National Budget has spurred much controversy. Many believe that we are spending too much on foreign wars, and leaving our citizens at home to suffer through a massive recession.

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The Taliban's motives for extreme repression of Afghan women

The Taliban's mistreatment and outright abuse -- even torture -- of women is not really a matter of debate: the cases of both officially and socially sanctioned abuse are far too numerous and egregious to be denied.

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Aircraft accident pre-accident planning and emergency response procedures

Pre-accident plan is a plan which contains the necessary information for all personnel that would be required in the event of a mishap, investigation of the mishap including the details needed in the process of recovering an aircraft that is involved in an accident.

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The redemptive role of the Black church in African-American life and society

How did African-Americans in the South and elsewhere develop their own places of worship before and after the Civil War? What was the African-American church like when the war ended and slavery was abolished?

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Gender inequality rankings: United States and China compared

The United States ranks 31st and China 60th in gender disparities in more than 200 surveyed countries in the world (Hausmann et al., 2009).

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