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For the first time, researchers at Tel Aviv University have predicted what might be discovered by detecting radio waves that originated in the early Universe.

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The threat of arrest for federal officers had originated in part with San Francisco Dist.

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Its full potential is still being uncovered—often, ironically, with funding that originated from Western development assistance and scientific partnerships.

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The company said it imports chocolate made from cocoa originating in parts of Africa where "crops are rotting" as a result of weather in the "last couple of years".

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Mr. Potter chronicles the array of ideas, techniques and experiments, originated by the unsung heroes of production efficiency, that saved so many lives through antibiotic abundance.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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