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With the inclusion of extensive experimental data this value is approaching 70% [ 2].
Less than 10% of schools nationally have anything approaching a comprehensive sexuality education program.
As modern Darwinism gets popularized, the basic idea of kin selection is approaching the status of conventional wisdom.
Two years ago, former Middlesex County Judge Edward Ginsburg and his cousin were sitting by the edge of a pond in New Hampshire, discussing his approaching 70th birthday.
Its crimes were on a scale approaching acts of war, but they were committed by a loose, far-flung, nebulous conspiracy with no territories or citizens or assets that could be readily threatened, overwhelmed, or destroyed.