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The FDA's controversy over antidepressant drug approval and safety warnings

Ideally, medical science and health policy should be objective disciplines. They should attempt, in the words of the mission statement articulated on the website of the Department of Health and Human Services to improve the health, safety, and well-being of Americans everywhere.

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Jewish community in Palestine during the British Mandate period

During the time of the British Mandate, the Jewish community in Palestine grew from around one-sixth of the population to more than one-third of the population. The main reason for this was immigration which took place between 1920 and 1945.

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Long-term implications of the Yom Kippur War on Middle East peace

As forces from Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq massed around Israel's borders in 1967, Israel launched a six-day air campaign which crippled the capacity of its opponents to wage war and which expanded its borders to well beyond the tract originally awarded to Zionists with the independence of 1948.

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Plato's ideal state compared with Soviet communist practice

The ideal state that Plato describes in what is arguably his best known work, the Republic, may seem horribly oppressive to the modern democratic mind.

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Intergovernmental relations and improving public service delivery

This objective of this work is to examine intergovernmental relations specifically as related to issues in public policy and to answer the question of 'what changes need to be made in the public administration and political systems in order for them to be more communicative and inter-related?'

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Cultural identity in Bless Me, Ultima and and the Earth Did Not Part

It is not possible to read Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima, and Tomas Rivera's and the Earth Did Not Part without coming to the realization that cultural identity - education, family, and spiritual acculturation - has greatly influenced in a very real sense in the lives of the Chicano peoples…

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Post-9/11 Islamophobia and the erosion of Arab-American civil liberties

The objective of this work is to conduct a review of literature addressing the question of whether post-9/11 has been a significant factor in promoting popular consent for the erosion of civil liberties for all Americans?

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Bill Clinton's effectiveness as a professional public speaker

While many former presidents have hit the speaking circuit as a way to stay in the public eye and make some extra cash, none have succeeded as much as Clinton, who has earned more money -- and more criticism -- than any of his predecessors.

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Imperial Tobacco's competitive strategy and value chain configuration

Explain how information systems and technology are used to create strategic advantage.

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The 2007 subprime crisis and global economic interdependence

In the winter of 2007, a crisis emerged in the U.S. subprime housing market. The potential impact of this crisis on the global economy was initially downplayed, in large part because the degree to which the global financial markets had become integrated in recent years was unknown.

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