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Motivations and risks among teenage runaways: an interview study

Martinez, Ruby J. "Understanding Runaway Teens" Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing (May 2006). Approximately 1.6 million American children (aged 12 to 17) run away from home annually.

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Sacramentalism, mysticism, and the limits of human understanding in Christianity

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Organizational performance and efficiency at Timbuk2

How is organizational performance defined? Timbuk2 defines organizational performance as providing a high-quality product that suits the needs of its core audience of professional bike messengers and bike-riding enthusiasts.

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Japan's strategic imperatives and the path to Pearl Harbor

What were Japan's major reasons for its attack on Pearl Harbor? In what ways did the attack connect with their moves into China in the 1930s and Southeast Asia in 1941 and 1942?

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The Treaty of Versailles and postwar instability in Europe

World War I and related events of 1917-1919 (the Russian and German Revolutions, the Treaty of Versailles, and others) helped to create an unstable postwar world.

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Friends with benefits and philosophical theories of sexual morality

"Friends with benefits" would be an affront to a Christian traditionalist, who views the only morally acceptable sex as taking place within the institution of marriage. Even monogamous unmarried couples would be excluded from the traditional moralist view of sexuality.

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Child prodigies and emotional dysfunction in The Royal Tenenbaums

The humor of films about children is often derived from the children's adult behavior, in comparison to their childish parent's immaturity. But what about films about child prodigies?

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Vince Lombardi's philosophy of teamwork and individual commitment

"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." -- Vince Lombardi

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Power, betrayal, and honor in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Cassius. Cassius tells Brutus that fate does not make a man powerful, and titles like "caesar" are meaningless. Caesar. Caesar points out that men like Cassius who are dissatisfied are more likely to cause trouble than those who are satisfied with their lot in life.

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Operational and financial budgeting for business forecasting

An operational budget provides an estimate of a business' likely expenses and income, based upon projected sales revenue for a given period of time.

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