Eating organic produce could be a partial solution, although one study suggests that the cost of avoiding intensive farm chemicals would mean a 31% increase in food prices.

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But if you want to keep the PC in the study, then Microsoft also had a solution to the missing 10 yards of railroad: enter the Xbox360 high definition (HD) version.

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The CRS study is often referenced directly and indirectly by those who favor higher tax rates as part of the overall solution to federal deficits.

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After reading about a circulating water cooling cap that was used in a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine sleep study, the girls set about creating a cheaper, lighter, and less onerous solution the cooling headband.

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In their study, the US researchers found that animals worked harder to get doses of Nocaine than to receive a saline solution, but less hard than they did to obtain doses of cocaine.

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