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Duke-NUS Medical School combines medical education with basic and translational biomedical research.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Councils set a school's toilet policies, the Welsh government said, adding they must be "accessible to all learners throughout the school day, taking into account pupils' basic needs".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
"Here in Palangkaraya City, we should be assisted not only in the form of rice or basic food supplies... there should be safe houses from haze."
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
The basic premise is that almost nothing we see online is human-generated anymore.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
Perhaps the most famous enslaved man in America at the time, William Lee was not granted the most basic recognition of his birth or death.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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