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    Why Are Unqualified Science Teachers Prevalent in US High Schools?

    Well I think it is safe to say that nobel has little to no experience working with moderatly sized groups of average grade school students. Also, he is clueless as it has to do with knowing what teachers really have to deal with. So $ 50,000.00 is what you consider appropriate to pay someone...
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    Why Are Unqualified Science Teachers Prevalent in US High Schools?

    Your numbers are a little out of date. http://www.top50states.com/federal-cost-of-living-index.html" is more recent and has rankings for cost of living and average income per capita. California is in the top 5 most expensive States to live in and they are not in the top 5 highest for income...
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    Asexuality: do you really need sex to be happy

    Trying to clarify your counter example. Would the following be correct. Asexual individuals deviate so far from "normal" sexual activity patterns as to be recognized as the polar opposites of "deviants" that struggle to control their sexual urges?
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    Why Are Unqualified Science Teachers Prevalent in US High Schools?

    You want to know why there is a "lack of quality teachers" in the public education system? Why do you not go and spend a day in the typicall classroom and you will find out why there is a lack of quality education in the schools. To label teachers as the main culprit in this situation is...
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    Asexuality: do you really need sex to be happy

    So one must be sexually active to maintain balance? What balance exactly, are you and the OP's researchers, trying to prove can not exist without sexual activity? I am glad that you are one of the few that are into self enlightenment in todays world. There are not enough of us out there...
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    The Obesity Epidemic: What Can Be Done to Stop It?

    For those arguing what is running and sprinting. The world record for a marathon, 26.2 miles, is 2 hours 3 minutes and 53 seconds. That comes out to an approximate 4 minute 45 second mile race pace. That is fast running and not sprinting. Regular running would put you around the 2 hour and 45...
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    Is Bob Dylan's Songwriting Enough to Justify His Status in Rock Music?

    I agree with the sentiment of this post. I can not stand listening to him, but reading his lyrics is a whole other story. There is no arguing his influence. I put him up there with Janis Joplin as most influential artiststs that I despise musically =;-)
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    Asexuality: do you really need sex to be happy

    How about the concept of pack hierachy. Omegas typically getting little to no sexual activity during their reproductive years and them being the individuals more oriented to pack social/emotional dynamics and the concept of humans beings pack animals? It seems to me, that the individuals...
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    The Obesity Epidemic: What Can Be Done to Stop It?

    The government should only push people along the path. For instance stop cutting physical education/health programs in the public school systems. As for some of the comments above. Not all obese people are in that situation because they are unwilling to change, many of them just put...
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    Exploring Nationalism: Culture, Ideology, Sentiment, and Social Movements

    No, I do not see the difference and http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/nationalism-vs-patriotism/". Nationalism is more aggressive and patriotism is more passive, but both are seeded in thoughts that ones own nation of origin and its perceived lifestyle is superior to those of other...
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    Animals which attack their cousins

    I was lead to believe the mascot for one of my alma maters, the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TL8pSFd-hQ" aka Athene cunicularia, commits siblicide. But I am not finding conclusive evidence of this except for the fact that some owl and avian species commit one or both acts. "Although...
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