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  2. Wikipedia:Why create an account? - Wikipedia

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    When you create an account, you can pick a user name provided it is available and unique. Edits you make while logged in will be associated to the username of your account instead of your IP address. You will have your own permanent user page where you can write a bit about yourself. While Wikipedia is not a homepage provider, you can use this to display a few free pictures, write about your ...

  3. Ability to benefit - Wikipedia

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    Ability to benefit ( ATB) is a term used in the context of post-secondary education in the United States to refer to students who have sufficient competency to benefit from post-secondary education but do not have a high school diploma or the Certificate of High School Equivalency. ATB, as assessed by government-approved tests, or high school Ed plan with 504 (IEP) with at least 1 year ...

  4. Plus and minus signs - Wikipedia

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    The plus sign ( +) and the minus sign ( −) are mathematical symbols used to denote positive and negative functions, respectively. In addition, + represents the operation of addition, which results in a sum, while − represents subtraction, resulting in a difference. [1] Their use has been extended to many other meanings, more or less analogous. Plus and minus are Latin terms meaning "more ...

  5. Political views of American academics - Wikipedia

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    The political views of American academics began to receive attention in the 1930s, and investigation into faculty political views expanded rapidly after the rise of McCarthyism. Demographic surveys of faculty that began in the 1950s and continue to the present have found higher percentages of liberals than of conservatives, particularly among those who work in the humanities and social ...

  6. Microsoft account - Wikipedia

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    A Microsoft account or MSA [1] (previously known as Microsoft Passport, [2] .NET Passport, and Windows Live ID) is a single sign-on personal user account for Microsoft customers to log in to consumer [3] [4] Microsoft services (like Outlook.com ), devices running on one of Microsoft's current operating systems (e.g. Microsoft Windows computers and tablets, Xbox consoles), and Microsoft ...

  7. Hands up, don't shoot - Wikipedia

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    " Hands up, don't shoot ", sometimes shortened to " hands up ", is a slogan and gesture that originated after the August 9, 2014, police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and then adopted at protests against police brutality elsewhere in the United States. The slogan implies one has their hands in the air, a common sign of submission, and is therefore not a threat to an ...

  8. Talk:William Durbin/Archive02 - Wikipedia

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    Really, start an article on Juko Kai and tell the whole story of Dr. Sacharnoski, the UOP, and ZKSBBR. Since after the recent changes over the Siegenthaler scandal, anonymous editors can't create new articles, if you want I'll create a basic stub of the article and you can document it with all the controversies over the UOP, Combat Ki, the lawsuits, ect.

  9. Legacy preferences - Wikipedia

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    Legacy preference or legacy admission is a preference given by an institution or organization to certain applicants on the basis of their familial relationship to alumni of that institution. It is most controversial in college admissions, [3] where students so admitted are referred to as legacies or legacy students. The practice is particularly widespread in the college admissions in the ...