For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States.
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Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed
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The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt
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That there are multiple ways of knowing the world has become a truism. What meaning is
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