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The Islamic world has long resisted the concept of a printed Qur'an.
THE SOURCE: “The Naked Truth” by Nina G. Jablonski, in Scientific American, Feb. 2010.
THE SOURCE: “Sculptors of the American Renaissance: Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French” by James F. Cooper, in American Arts Quarterly, Fall 2009.
THE SOURCE: “Translators Struggle to Prove Their Academic Bona Fides” by Jennifer Howard, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 17, 2010.
THE SOURCE: “The Lost Community? Public Housing and Social Capital in Santiago de Chile, 1985–2001” by Manuel Tironi, in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Dec. 2009.
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