Selvaggio states, "Everything from manufacturing jobs to research and development (R&D) positions, IT services, customer service jobs, and distribution centers were lost when the largest companies began sending these jobs offshore.... This left many people looking for jobs and being forced to change career paths in order to be able to find employment again. ... Computer parts that are foreign-made are not always assembled properly, and the toys that are made may break easily. ...

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This is most likely due to the fact that American society is "[inching] ever closer to embracing phenomena that science [cannot] answer."12 Even highly esteemed academic publications such as the Journal of Scientific Exploration "now treat the paranormal with as much respect and analysis as physics or the chaos theory."13 The possibility of life existing on other worlds has been the subject of speculation for years.14 In May, 1988, NASA began using a "super computer" that is intended to pick up signals from any distant civilizations.15 Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SET...

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HISTORY: in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. It also refers to the recording of that past. The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers, printed documents, personal papers, and other archival records, artifacts, and oral accounts. Historians use this material to form coherent narratives and uncover linked sequences and patterns in past events. Most histories are concerned with causality, that is, why certain outcomes happened as they did, and how they are linked to earlier events. 1 Origins of Historical Writing In preliterate societies, the acc...

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