When I went to graduate school, I studied American culture studies, and I was amazed at the ideals that were just made up by someone, and they'd just taken on these huge lives of their own and become things that we obsess about, and really, when you go back to the root of it, it doesn't mean anything.

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So, if these batteries are the root of the problem, why not go back to nickel-cadmium?

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While there is some credence to that (we'll go there too), we think the root of all this angst goes way deeper.

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Solomon is in many ways the perfect writer for the subject nuanced, thorough, humane, and a gifted stylist and, trying to get to the root of this conflict, he pushes horizontal identity as far as it will go.

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In fact, administrative overhead is essential if we are to develop programs that go beyond Band-Aid responses and build the kind of infrastructure and collaborations that address the root causes of social ills.

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