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Highlight the author's conclusions: p1: judgments about whether a risk is "involuntary"...are thus of little utility in guiding policy decisions p3: regulatory policy should be guided by a better understanding of the factors that underlie judgments about voluntariness p4: the government should attempt to save
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Highlight the author's conclusions: Passage A: Two phenomena--habituation and rivalry--push up the norm. When our living standards increase, we love it initially but then we adjust and it makes little difference. how people compare to their "reference group"--those most like them--is crucial for happiness. Passage
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Highlight the author's conclusions: p1: Dunham's success in bringing dance-isolation and other traditional techniques into the mainstream of modern North American dance is due in no small part to her training in both anthropological research and choreography. p3: Especially critical to her success was her approach
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Highlight the author's conclusions: p4: prions are an entirely new class of infectious pathogens. p1 is all background, but the author drops a huge hint about what the argument's gonna be when they say "It was thus widely assumed..." Probably we'll find
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Highlight the author's conclusions: Passage A: not all actual situations are generated in accordance with the principles of justice in acquisition and justice in transfer. Passage B: The current owners lack a well-founded right to the land *** Passage A goes on and on giving background on these principles
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Highlight the author's conclusions: p4: Marcusians make a major mistake in assuming that the majority of consumers who respond to advertising do not do so autonomously *** p1 is a lot of background. As terribly fascinating as all this garbage is, none of it supports any of the rest
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Highlight the author's conclusions: p1: These traces, of course, are what give the photographs their life and charm. p2: It is precisely the camera's realism…that has given Cameron's theatricality and artificiality its atmosphere of truth. p3: What gives Cameron's pictures of
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Highlight the author's conclusions: p2: nature provides numerous examples of attributes that are not adaptations for reproductive success p3: their persistence from one generation to the next is not explainable by natural selection p4: the study of mass extinctions in paleontology has undermined the strict constructionist claim that