In this high-tech information age few look to the most basic industries as sources of national economic power.

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In other words, contentment and life satisfaction come from other sources once your basic needs are met.

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The basic and essential problem with most renewable energy sources is that their output is not continuous.

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For many of these regions, basic information required distinguishes between natural and anthropogenic sources of metals in waters, soils and vegetation is sparse or completely lacking.

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Rather, Specter and others have argued that such creations could become reliable sources of stem cells -- basic cells that could be manipulated in laboratories to form a variety of human tissues.

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Fear of being sued and basic decency may keep U.S. news sources from running the photos, but courts have decided before in rulings about crime scene photos that privacy rights do not extend to the dead.

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To fight our way through this may well require ideas from much wider sources -- perhaps from systems architects and evolutionary psychologists, or from researchers dreaming up new energy sources or philosophers or activists questioning our basic priorities.

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Supported by basic research funding from the National Institutes of Health and other sources, Lefkowitz and Kobilka gradually provided answers.

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