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1. Despite the educational value of some of his films, Disney was quick to point out, “I’m not an educator. My primary purpose is to entertain --- though if people want to read education into my work, that’s fine with me. ”

2. A special machine opens and slams a prototype’s door 80,000 times, and other instruments test the brakes and the amount of gasoline and oil the engine uses.

3. The key to achieving this seemingly unbelievable feat lies in knowing how to make the most of a very natural sleep phenomenon – dreaming.

4. If left untreated, even mild hypertension can reduce the life expectancy of a 35-year-old by several years.

5. It says if the cause is medicine the person may be using, then he or she should ask the doctor for a similar medicine that does not produce dry mouth.

6. Such migrations optimize the environment for the organisms, as they move to areas where food is plentiful, breeding is safest or temperatures are optimal.

7. Could this be related to loneliness, or is it simply that we become more relaxed as the evening advances, and our calls become less purposeful and more diffuse?

8. The Julian calendar, devised by Julius Caesar and based on the phases of the moon, had trouble pinning down that date.

9. Do you think it is possible to defeat an opponent so fierce that a glance at her turns one to stone?

10. They use guerrilla tactics to disrupt hunts and often end up in violent struggles with the riders, much to the delight of television crews.

11 Especially in the early years of life when the brain is still taking shape, parental attention—even such a simple activity as playing peekaboo—helps construct the complex brain circuitry essential to intellectual development.

12. One of the problems of watching weather forecasts on TV is that by the time they

have reached your region, you have tuned out and missed the vital information you have been waiting for.

13. As important as speed is the fact that documents traveling directly from computer to computer remain as computer files rather than as a fixed printed page.

14. The Minister at once ordered an inquiry into the whole matter, and after a month has proof that the official had indeed taken bribes.

15. One forgets that the characters are speaking a different language, and the message of the film, its plot, its humor, come through.

16. Weather is big business in the United States. The country has 750 weather zones, including eight in the New York metropolitan area alone.

17. Soon doctors may urge some hypertension patients to increase their calcium intake, much the way they now advise sodium restriction.

18. Experts know that portable devices emit radiation which affects those wavelengths which aircraft use for navigation and communication.

19. Most people will take just about any advice on how to expand their wealth – but these same people will fail utterly to explore the most economical ways of passing on their assets to their survivors.

20. Students and faculty at many colleges now have access to email—electronic mail—which combines the capabilities of the computer with those of the phone line.

21. Unmarked and trackless though the ocean may seem to us, its surface is divided into definite zones, and the pattern of the surface water controls the distribution of its life.

22. The lotus foot, which seems to us a deformity, was passionately admired in China for centuries, and today most people in Western society see nothing ugly in the severely compressed toes produced by modern footwear.

23. But across American campuses, professors are neglecting teaching to produce, instead, reams of trivial, irrelevant research in the name of scholarly pursuit.

24. They seem to be due not to genetic or inborn traits, but rather to a sort of environmental imprinting.