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Thomas Goetz's argument about technology's paradoxical role in healthcare costs

According to Thomas Goetz, the executive editor at Wired Magazine, the current national debate over healthcare reform is missing a critical point that is driving up costs: technology.

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Economic implications of teenage buying power and market influence

Teenagers today in the United States have increasing purchasing power and their numbers have also grown over the past decade.

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Keystroke analysis as biometric authentication for cell phone security

Biometrics is becoming an increasingly popular method of identifying unique human characteristics as a means of authenticating an individual's identity.

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Walmart's competitive strategy and Porter's five forces analysis

"Everyday low prices" is the vision statement of Wal-mart and has been since Sam Walton opened his first store in 1962. To accomplish the vision statement of Wal-mart, the company incorporated a philosophy of keeping its prices low by increasing its sales and lowering its costs.

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The difference effective leadership makes in organizations

The process of social influence in which someone can procure the aid and support of others in the achievement of a common task is leadership. Leadership definitions that are more inclusive of followers also exist.

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Achieving sustainable living through time management, consumption reduction, and nature connection

Sustainable living involves more deliberate choices in the face of three aspects of our lives, including time crunches, too much "stuff," and a disconnection from the land base and spirituality. Using our time in sustainable ways can be the foundation of a more happy and sustainable lifestyle.

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Nature and nurture in prenatal development and epigenetics

Prenatal development involves not only the physiologic processes which occur to produce life, it also requires an understanding of the various influences that shape the developing life and the consequences those influences have the potential to bear. The issue of nature vs.

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The Bracero Program in Texas, 1942-1964: Political and social implications

Following the forced or "encouraged" migration of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Mexicans from the southwest United States, from Texas to California, during the rampant unemployment of the 1930s' Great Depression, a sudden labor shortage was experienced in the agricultural industry during World…

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PETA's role in changing attitudes toward animal testing

Concern about animal testing probably began in America after 1980, when a group called People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was formed.

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Sphinxes and lamassu: comparing Egyptian and Assyrian monumental sculpture

The great artistic traditions of the ancient world are often discussed in isolation. However, artifacts from Egypt, Assyria, and other early imperial cultures reveal symbolic and technical commonalities as well as discontinuities.

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