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But now they could become humankind's next destination in space, if a new proposal for a manned mission to an asteroid comes to fruition.
A Clue to How Planets Formed Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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Today Easter Island is bouncing back, its boom driven in part by eco-tourists who want to see humankind's most famous environmental catastrophe.
Don't Blame the Natives Charles C. Mann 2011
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Our 21st century world -- replete with wondrous technologies -- rests upon the foundation of all humankind's prior wisdom and creativity.
K. David Harrison: Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge K. David Harrison 2011
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“The freedom to work is humankind's greatest gift to humanity,” Jacobs said, which was one he'd never sold, but he was going down the list.
The Snow Whale John Minichillo 2011
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Our 21st century world -- replete with wondrous technologies -- rests upon the foundation of all humankind's prior wisdom and creativity.
K. David Harrison: Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge K. David Harrison 2011
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From the great Pyramids of Egypt to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Taj Mahal and Eiffel Tower, the list of humankind's construction feats is endless.
12 Modern Engineering Wonders (PHOTOS) Manal Khan 2010
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Many of humankind's primitive instincts (for example, the desire to kill and the insatiable craving for sexual gratification) are clearly harmful to the well-being of a human community.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Thirty seconds across the museum from the locomotive sits part of an actual rocket that achieved humankind's highest speed ever.
Putting on the Brakes: Mankind Nears the End of the Age of Speed Daniel Michaels 2011
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From the great Pyramids of Egypt to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Taj Mahal and Eiffel Tower, the list of humankind's construction feats is endless.
12 Modern Engineering Wonders (PHOTOS) Manal Khan 2010
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The renowned McCarthy is not a sadist; rather, he's depicting mankind's real-life violent nature in the past and, by extension, the present as well as humankind's often short, sorrowful lives.
Dave Astor: If All Books Were as Violent as Cormac McCarthy Books Dave Astor 2011
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