1. Why do you think the researchers “asked a representative sample of Americans how they resolved family conflicts" instead of using official
statistics such as police reports? What did their method accomplish that
relying on official statistics would not have accomplished?

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b) to show the progression of inventions that took place in the bicycling industry.

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a low four-wheeled open carriage of a kind formerly used in russia.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

it would be offer because the group is offering all at once.