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At harvest time, some farmers gather apples by hand to avoid damaging the fruit. B__ most large orchards utilize machinery for this work. S___ machines shake trees to loosen apples. Ot___ machines then scoop up apples f___ the ground. More modern mach____ that c__ pick apples directly from trees have b___ invented in recent years. By using machines, the number of people needed to work on ap___ orchards has been reduced tremendously.

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Star Carr is a site in Yorkshire that w__ occupied sometime ar___ 9000 B.C. Archaeologists believe peo___ lived there f__ around 200 to 300 years. It appears to have b___ a permanent residence for a group of people in the area. That is noteworthy sin__ humans at the time were hunter-gatherers, so they primarily li___ nomadic lives.

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One reason Star Carr is so important is that a large number of artifacts have b___ excavated there. These include spearheads, various tools, a__ even masks. M___ of these items have been well presevered so are in excellent condition. As f__ the site itself, it covers an area almost five hectares in size. There are s___ remains of wooden buildings th__ served as homes for people. The buildings were extremely advanced for the time and ha__ caused archaeologists to reconsider many of their theories on humans fr__ this period.

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A new coral reef w__ recently discovered in the South Atlantic Ocean. Located o__ the coasts of Brazil, Suriname, and French Guiana, it is named the Amazon Reef sin__ it is located near the mouth of the Amazon River. It is one of the world's larg___ co___ reefs. It exists bet____ fifty and 100 meters underwater. And it covers an area of 9,500 square kilometers. The reef al__ stretches nearly 1,000 kilometers.

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Some mammoths lived on St. Paul Island. It is located in the Bering Sea bet____ Alaska and Russia. It is a small island a__ supported a small group of mammoths. It is a___ a dry island, having a single lake w___ fresh water. Scientists believe so__ St. Paul mammoths died o_ thirst during a dry spell 5,600 years a__. Others also likely ate all the limited amount of vegetation on the island, making them starve to death. Their actions co___ have also destroyed the lake by allowing it to fill with sediment from erosion.

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The last remaining mammoths lived on Wrangel lsland, whi__ is located in the Arctic Ocean near Russia. lt is m___ larger than St. Paul lsland, so it co___ support a bigger mammoth population. Still, this herd w__ smaller than the ones that roamed the mainland. Experts believe that around 300 mammoths lived o_ the island. This led to a small gene pool for them to reproduce f___. O___ time, this caused several mutations in generations of mamm____.

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Europeans viewed land as private property. They needed land to grow food in ord__ to survive. Getting mo__ land increased a person's wealth. They al__ passed land on wit___ their families to help provide for their children's futures. Native Americans regarded land as being something th__ everyone in the community co___ use though. To them, all of nature w__ for everyone. Agreements betw___ tribes o____ set boundaries. But within a tribal area, no person owned a__ land.

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Sir Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope i_ 1680. His telescope contained two mirrors. The first gathered light a__ sent it to the second mi____. That mirror th__ reflected the light to the eyepiece. A person wo___ then look through it. Newton’s telescope improved up__ Galileo’s beca___ people w___ able to make better mirrors in the past. Today, bo__ types of telescopes are popular.

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A recession is a period o_ negative economic growth f__ at least two quarters. Mo__ recessions last a few months, but ot____ m__ last up to two years. During a recession, the economy declines si___ production decreases. Unemployment rises as m___ peo___ lose their jo__.

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When people sleep, they put their bodies i___ a number of different positions. There a__three main sleeping positions: sleeping o_ the stomach, on the side, and on the back. Ea__ of these positions affects people's bodies in diffe____ ways. Some of them are positive wh___ the others are m__ nega____ in nature.