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1. One of the great challenges of living in our society is knowing when people are telling the truth.

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One of the great challenges of living in today’s society is knowing when people are telling the truth.
2. It's not surprising that for many years scientists have been working to develop "truth drugs" – drugs that’ll make you open up and tell all you know to an interrogator.

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It is not surprising that for many years scientists have been working to develop "truth drugs" – drugs that will make criminal suspects open up and tell all to an interrogator.
3. In this paper I will examine the problem of bullying and some of the effects it has on us, and I’ll discuss preventive steps people are taking.

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This paper examines the problem of bullying and its effects, and discusses preventive steps schools/parents/teachers/states are taking.
4. Although we produce so much electronic scrap, we seldom question how it’s processed.

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Although so much electronic scrap is produced, how it is processed is seldom questioned.
5. Not only is it slow to read word-by-word, but when you concentrate on separate words, you often miss the overall concept of what’s being said.

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Not only is it slow to read word-by-word, but when readers concentrate on separate words, the overall concept of what is being said is often missed.