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Scientific and technological advances suggest that it might best be used not as a fuel but as a chemical raw material Many important properties of metals are now understood to result from a kind ...

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How Much Real Scientific Research Lies Behind Some of the Patent Medicines, Cures, and Medicaments Sold to the Less Intelligent Fraction of the Public? Who Should Conduct Such Research?

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In a setting rich in a history of men's quest for peace, international cooperation was furthered by the greatest scientific conclave of all time. Delegates of 72 nations shared their nuclear ...

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