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| Making The Initial Investment In Higher Education | |
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| Understanding What It Means to Be a College Student | |
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| What to Expect of Your Professors and What They Expect of You | |
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| Personal Responsibilities | |
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| Getting Critical: Switching to College-Level Thinking | |
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| Finding Your Place on Campus: Diversity and New Experiences in College | |
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| Finding and Using Campus Resources | |
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| Finding a Mentor | |
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| A Major Decision: Thinking Early and Often | |
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| About Majors and Careers | |
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| A Quick Overview of Which Majors Lead to Which Careers | |
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| The Role of Education in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
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| Increasing Your Yield | |
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| Reading and Study Tips: Education | |
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| A Textbook Case: The Development of American Secondary Schools | |
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| Life After College: Lessons of a First Year Teacher | |
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| Motivations And Expectations For Your Investment | |
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| Managing Your Time | |
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| A Sample To-Do List | |
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| Long-Term To-Do Lists | |
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| Avoiding the Costly Art of Procrastination | |
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| Knowing Yourself as a Learner | |
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| Knowing Your Learning Style--and Putting That Knowledge to Use | |
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| Active versus Passive Learning | |
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| The Ins and (Mostly) the Outs of Cheating | |
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| Cheating Hall of Shame | |
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| Your Choice of Major | |
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| Being Undeclared | |
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| Declaring and Changing Your Major: What You Need to Know | |
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| Figuring Out Your QPA | |
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| Withdrawing from a Course: When and Why | |
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| Incompletes--When to Take Them, What to Do Later | |
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| The Role of Business in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
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| Increasing Your Yield | |
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| Reading and Study Tips: Business | |
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| A Textbook Case: Ethical Perceptions and International Business | |
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| Life After College: Forensic Accounting: CPA Gumshoes | |
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| Earning The Grade By Reading And Note Taking At The College Level | |
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| Previewing Your Textbooks | |
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| Using Guide Questions | |
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| To Highlight or Not to Highlight | |
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| Annotating Your Textbooks | |
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| Five Easy Annotation Steps | |
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| Two Bonus Steps (for even better results) | |
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| Outlining | |
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| Summarizing What You Have Read | |
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| Assessing a Professor's Lecture Style--and What It Means for You | |
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| Quick and Dirty Note-Taking Strategies | |
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| Reviewing Your Notes | |
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| Combining Textbook and Lecture Notes for the Best Study Guide Ever | |
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| The Role of Physical Sciences in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
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| Increasing Your Yield | |
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| Reading and Study Tips: Physical Sciences | |
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| A Textbook Case: Genetically Modified Orgnanisms | |
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| Life After College: Careers in Science: Shawn Robinson, Marine Ecologist | |
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| Earning The Grade On Tests | |
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| Objective Tests | |
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| Multiple-Choice Tests | |
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| True/False Tests | |
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| Fill-in-the-Blank Tests | |
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| Matching Tests | |
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| Subjective Tests | |
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| Short-Answer Tests | |
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| Essay Tests | |
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| Other Types of Tests | |
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| Take-Home Tests | |
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| Open-Book Tests | |
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| Speaking and Listening Tests | |
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| Comprehensive Exams | |
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| Memorization | |
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| Cramming | |
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| Test Anxiety | |
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| The Role of Psychology in our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
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| Increasing Your Yield | |
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| Reading and Study Tips: Psychology | |
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| A Textbook Case: Interference Theory: When Learning More Leads to Remembering Less | |
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| Life After College: Psychology's Growth Careers | |
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| Critical Thinking Strategies For The Academic Investor | |
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| Becoming a Critical Thinker Every Day | |
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| Fact versus Opinion | |
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| Arguments | |
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| Making an Effective Argument Recognizing | |
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| Bias in Arguments | |
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| Fallacies | |
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| Gathering Evidence | |
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| Solving Problems in the Real World | |
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| Reading and Watching the News Critically | |
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| The Role of Speech Communication in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
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| Increasing Your Yield | |
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| Reading and Study Tips: Speech Communications | |
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| A Textbook Case: Ethical Speaking | |
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| Life After College: Young at Art: Eugene Young Making Reality a Reality | |
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| Writing And Speaking Effectively In College | |
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| Understanding the Assignment (for a Paper or Presentation) | |
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| The Paper | |
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| The Presentation | |
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| Brainstorming | |
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| Narrowing Your Topic for a Paper or Presentation of Realistic Scope | |
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| The Inverted Triangle Method of Narrowing Your Topic | |
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| What a Thesis Statement Really Should Be | |
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| Organizing Your Supporting Paragraphs or Points | |
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| Internet Research | |
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| Tricks of the Trade: Refining and Delivering the Product | |
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| Citing Sources | |
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| MLA and APA Guidelines: What You Need to Get Started | |
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| Written and Verbal Communication on the Phone and Online: The Do's and Don'ts | |
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| The Role of English in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
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| Increasing Your Yield | |
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| Reading and Study Tips: English | |
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| A Textbook Case: The Story of an Hour | |
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| Life After College: Gary Paulsen's | |
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| Love Affair with Writing | |
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| Diversifying Your Portfolio Of Experiences | |
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| Gaining Confidence as a Student and as a Person | |
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| Enhancing Your Academic Life with a Social Life | |
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| Experiencing Diversity on Your Campus | |
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| Service Learning/Volunteering | |
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| The Role of Visual and Performing Arts in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
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| Increasing Your Yield | |
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| Reading and Study Tips: Visual and Performing Arts | |
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| A Textbook Case: Visual and Intellectual Unity | |
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| Life After College: Where Do I Go With?Music? | |
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| Banking on a Healthy Future | |
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| Staying Healthy When the Going Gets Rough | |
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| NEWS: Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sleep | |
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| Nutrition | |
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| Exercise | |
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| Water | |
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| Sleep | |
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| Understanding the Health Risks of College Students | |
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| Alcohol/Drug Abuse | |
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| STDs | |
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| Meningitis and Other Communicable Diseases | |
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| Tobacco Use | |
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| Violence/Date Rape | |
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| Depression/Suicide | |
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| Side Effects of Tattooing and Body Piercing | |
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| Eating Disorders | |
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| The Role of History in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
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| Increasing Your Yield | |
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| Reading and Study Tips: History | |
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| A Textbook Case: Life and Death at the Front | |
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| Life After College: Who Do I Think I Am? | |
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| The Bottom Line: The Math And The Method Behind Managing Your Money In College | |
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| Managing Your Finances | |
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| Keeping a Budget | |
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| Working versus Not Working | |
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| Student Loan Debt | |
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| Scholarships | |
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| Credit Card Debt | |
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| Pitfalls to Avoid: Life Lessons from Those | |
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| Who Have Been There | |
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| The Role of Math in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
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| Increasing Your Yield | |
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| Reading and Study Tips: Math | |
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| A Textbook Case: Exponents and Scientific Notation | |
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| Life After College: Profiles of Mathematicians: Bonita Sanders | |
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| The Payoff: Your Career And Your Future | |
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| Thinking Ahead: What You Should Be Doing Now | |
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| Keeping Up with Current Events | |
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| How Your Major Defines Your Career | |
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| Choice, and How It Doesn't | |
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| Professional Organizations | |
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| Internships | |
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| What People Really Do on the Job Every Day | |
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| Thinking Out of the Box When Preparing for Your Career | |
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| R?sum?s and Cover Letters | |
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| Your R?sum? | |
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| Your Cover Letter | |
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| Using the Internet to Prepare for the Job Search | |
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| The Interview Process | |
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| Why an Interview? | |
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| What Is Involved in an Interview and How | |
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| Do You Survive It? | |
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| How Do You Handle Special Interview Situations? | |
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| How Do You Prepare for Interview Questions? | |
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| The Role of Technology in Our Lives: Connections and Careers | |
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| Increasing Your Yield | |
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| Reading and Study Tips: Technology | |
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| A Textbook Case: Arithmetic Operators and Operator Precedence | |
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| Life After College: The Man | |
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| Who Built Pixar's Incredible Innovation Machine | |