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 36. Should People Be Allowed to Obscure Their Identities Online?
 37. Are Parents Violating Their Children’s Privacy When They Share Photos and Videos of Them Online?
 38. Would You Mind if Your Parents Blogged About You?
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 Smartphones
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 39. Are You Distracted by Your Phone?
 40. Are You Distracted by Technology?
 41. Does Technology Make Us More Alone?
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 56. Do Apps Help You or Just Waste Your Time?
 57. What Makes HQ Trivia So Popular?
 58. Is Pokémon Go a Positive Cultural Force? Or Is it Just Another Excuse for People to Stare at Their Phones?
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 Internet & Tech
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 59. Is the Internet Broken?
 60. How Do You Protect Your Personal Information From Hackers?
 61. How Careful Are You Online?
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 72. Do You Think Recreational Drones Are Safe?
 73. What Role Will Robots Play in Our Future?
 74. Will Wearable Technology Ever Really Catch On?
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 Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us
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 Will the Spiraling Publicity Harm ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ at the Box Office?
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 Arts & Entertainment
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 75. What Songs Are on Your Favorite Playlist?
 76. What Are You Listening To?
 77. What Musicians or Bands Mean the Most to You?
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 96. What Artists Do You Consider ‘Sellouts’?
 97. How Much Can an Artist Borrow From Earlier Musicians Before It Becomes Stealing?
 98. Who Does Hip-Hop Belong To?
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 99. What Are Your Favorite TV Shows?
 100. What Are the Best Things You’ve Watched, Read, Heard or Played This Year?
 101. What Are Your TV Habits?
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 125. Is TV Too White?
 126. What Stereotypical Characters Make You Cringe?
 127. What Makes a Good TV Show Finale?
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 128. Should Video Games Be Considered a Sport?
 129. What Have You Learned Playing Video Games?
 130. What Are Your Favorite Video Games?
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 138. Can a Video Game Be a Work of Art?
 139. What Game Would You Like to Redesign?
 140. How Sexist Is the Gaming World?
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 Movies & Theater
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 141. What Are Your Favorite Movies Ever?
 142. What Were the Best Movies You Saw in the Past Year?
 143. What Movies Do You Watch, or Reference, Over and Over?
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 157. Does Live Theater Offer Something You Just Can’t Get Watching Movies or TV?
 158. Is Hollywood Becoming More Diverse?
 159. What — if Anything — Does the Current Hollywood Film Industry Lack?
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 160. What Are the Best Books You’ve Read?
 161. Read Any Good Books Lately?
 162. What Are Your Favorite Young Adult Novels?
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 184. Do You Enjoy Reading Tabloid Gossip?
 185. Are There Books That Should Be Banned From Your School Library?
 186. Do We Still Need Libraries?
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 187. What Purpose Does Writing Serve in Your Life?
 188. Why Do You Write?
 189. Are You a Good Storyteller?
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 200. What Would You Write in a Letter to the Editor?
 201. If You Had a Column in The New York Times, What Would You Write About?
 202. Would You Ever Write Down a Secret and Bury It in the Ground?
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 203. What Is Your Favorite Type of Art?
 204. What Are Your Favorite Works of Art?
 205. What Work of Art Has Changed Your Life?
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 218. Should Displays of Art Be Welcome in All Public Spaces?
 219. Does Pop Culture Deserve Serious Study?
 220. What Do You Think of the Obamas’ Portrait Choices?
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 221. What Words Do You Hate?
 222. What Words or Phrases Do You Think Are Overused?
 223. How Much Slang Do You Use? What Are Your Favorite Words?
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 246. Where Do You Find the Meanings of Unfamiliar Words?
 247. Do You Speak a Second, or Third, Language?
 248. Should Everyone Learn at Least One Other Language?
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 What is the most memorable concept you’ve learned in science class, and how did you learn it?Credit...Carlos Gonzalez for The New York Times
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 249. Should the School Day Start Later?
 250. Would a Later School Start Time Increase Student Success?
 251. Is Your School Day Too Short?
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 275. Should All Children Be Able to Go to Preschool?
 276. What Is the Purpose of Preschool?
 277. Should Kindergarten Be More About Play or Literacy?
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 278. Do Teachers Assign Too Much Homework?
 279. Does Your Homework Help You Learn?
 280. Do You Need a Homework Therapist?
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 309. Do Schools Provide Students With Enough Opportunities to Be Creative?
 310. Does the Way Your Classroom Is Decorated Affect Your Learning?
 311. How Much Does Your Life in School Intersect With Your Life Outside School?
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 312. What Do You Wish Your Teachers Knew About You?
 313. When Has a Teacher Inspired You?
 314. Has a Teacher Ever Changed Your Mind-Set?
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 333. Do Your Test Scores Reflect How Good Your Teachers Are?
 334. Should Discomfort Excuse Students From Having to Complete an Assignment?
 335. Should Schools Give Students ‘Body’ Report Cards?
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 336. Are the Web Filters at Your School Too Restrictive?
 337. Does Technology in the Classroom Ever Get in the Way of Learning?
 338. Do Your Teachers Use Technology Well?
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 350. Does Your School Offer Enough Opportunities to Learn Computer Programming?
 351. Does Your School Value Students’ Digital Skills?
 352. Do You Know How to Code? Would You Like to Learn?
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 353. Are School Dress Codes a Good Idea?
 354. How Does Your School Deal With Students Who Misbehave?
 355. Can Students at Your School Talk Openly About Their Mental Health Issues?
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 378. Should School Newspapers Be Subject to Prior Review?
 379. Should More Student Journalists Have Independent Editorial Control?
 380. What Are Your Thoughts on Riding the School Bus?
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 381. How Necessary Is a College Education?
 382. Is College Overrated?
 383. How Prepared Are You For College? How Well Do You Think You’ll Do?
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 410. Is a Sorority a Good Place for a Feminist?
 411. Should Colleges Offer Degrees in Sports?
 412. Should ‘Despised Dissenters’ Be Allowed to Speak on College Campuses?
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 Work & Careers
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 413. What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
 414. Do You Have a Life Calling?
 415. What’s Your Dream Job?
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 447. Would You Quit if Your Values Did Not Match Your Employer’s?
 448. Should Employers Be Able to Review Job Applicants’ SAT Scores?
 449. How Important Is Related Experience in Doing a Job?
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 Do you ever talk about issues of race and class with your friends?Credit...Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
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 450. How Close Are You to Your Parents?
 451. How Are You and Your Parents Alike and Different?
 452. Will You Follow in Your Parents’ Footsteps?
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 475. Have Your Parents and Teachers Given You Room to Create?
 476. How Closely Do Your Parents Monitor Your App Use?
 477. Should Parents Limit How Much Time Children Spend on Tech Devices?
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 478. Who Is Your Family?
 479. How Do You Define ‘Family’?
 480. What Have You and Your Family Accomplished Together?
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 494. What Do You Know About Your Family’s History?
 495. Did Your Parents Have a Life Before They Had Kids?
 496. What Family Traditions Do You Want to Carry On When You Get Older?
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 497. What Is Your Earliest Memory?
 498. What Was Your Most Precious Childhood Possession?
 499. What Is Your Most Prized Possession?
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 517. What Nicknames Have You Ever Gotten or Given?
 518. What Are Your Best Sleepover Memories?
 519. What Old, Worn Out Thing Can You Just Not Part With?
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 520. Is It Harder to Grow Up in the 21st Century Than It Was in the Past?
 521. Is Modern Culture Ruining Childhood?
 522. Are Adults Hurting Young Children by Pushing Them to Achieve?
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 545. Is Our Culture of Online Shaming Out of Control?
 546. Do ‘Shame and Blame’ Work to Change Teenage Behavior?
 547. Do You Think Teenagers Can Make a Difference in the World?
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 548. What Challenges Have You Overcome?
 549. What Are Your Secret Survival Strategies?
 550. What Do You Do When You Encounter Obstacles to Success?
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 588. Does Achieving Success Always Include Being Happy?
 589. Do Adults Who Are ‘Only Trying to Help’ Sometimes Make Things Worse?
 590. Have You Ever Felt Pressured by Family or Others in Making an Important Decision About Your Future?
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 591. What Makes You Happy?
 592. What Motivates You?
 593. What Are You Good At?
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 647. What Assumptions Do People Make About You?
 648. How Strong Is Your Sense of Smell?
 649. What Animal Are You Most Like?
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 650. What Is the Role of Religion or Spirituality in Your Life?
 651. How Important Is Your Spiritual Life?
 652. Do You Believe That Everything Happens for a Reason?
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 676. When Is Looting Morally O.K.?
 677. Do You Ever Eavesdrop?
 678. How Much Do You Gossip?
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 679. Who Are the People – Famous or Not – You Admire Most?
 680. Who Are Your Heroes?
 681. What Is a Hero?
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 692. What Leader Would You Invite to Speak at Your School?
 693. What Six People, Living or Dead, Would You Invite to Dinner?
 694. Who’s Your ‘Outsider Role Model’?
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 695. Have You Ever Been Told You Couldn’t Do Something Because of Your Gender?
 696. Do Parents Have Different Hopes and Standards for Their Sons Than for Their Daughters?
 697. How Do Your Parents Share the Responsibilities of Parenting?
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 727. What Rules Should Apply to Transgender Athletes When They Compete?
 728. Are Women Better at Compromising and Collaborating?
 729. Do Boys Have Less Intense Friendships Than Girls?
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 730. Is America ‘Backsliding’ on Race?
 731. Why Is Race So Hard to Talk About?
 732. How Often Do You Interact With People of Another Race or Ethnicity?
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 740. Should Schools Strive for Racial Diversity Among Teachers?
 741. How Should Parents Teach Their Children About Race and Racism?
 742. Is ‘Black Panther’ a ‘Defining Moment’ for the United States — and Particularly for Black America?
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 743. How Much Does Your Neighborhood Define Who You Are?
 744. What’s Special About Your Hometown?
 745. What Marketing Slogan Would You Use for Your Town or City?
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 784. What Would You Put in Your Emergency ‘Go-Bag’?
 785. Who Lived Long Ago Where You Live Now?
 786. What Would Your Dream Home Be Like?
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 787. What Are Your Expectations About Earning, Saving and Spending Money?
 788. What Choices Do You Make About Money Every Day?
 789. Are You a Saver or a Spender?
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 804. Whom, or What, Would You Want to Help With a Crowdfunding Campaign?
 805. Do Poor People ‘Have It Easy’?
 806. Should People Give Money to Panhandlers?8
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 807. What Would You Do if You Won the Lottery?
 808. What Superpower Do You Wish You Had?
 809. What Era Do You Wish You Had Lived In?
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 826. Would You Like to Be Cryogenically Preserved (Frozen!) Upon Your Death?
 827. If the World Was Ending, What Would You Want to Say?
 828. What Items Would You Place in a Time Capsule for Future Generations?
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 829. Do You Spend Enough Time With Other People?
 830. How Often Do You Spend One-on-One Time With Your Closest Friends?
 831. Do You Have a Best Friend?
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 840. Is Competitiveness an Obstacle to Making or Keeping Friendships?
 841. How Should You Handle the End of a Friendship?
 842. Have You Ever Felt Left Out?
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 843. Have You Ever Been in Love?
 844. What Advice Would You Give to Somebody Who Just Started Dating?
 845. Are You Allowed to Date?
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 863. How Should Parents Address Internet Pornography?
 864. Do You Think Porn Influences the Way Teenagers Think About Sex?
 865. How Did You Learn About Sex?
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 866. Are Models Too Skinny?
 867. Is There Too Much Pressure on Girls to Have ‘Perfect’ Bodies?
 868. How Much Pressure Do Boys Face to Have the Perfect Body?
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 888. Do Photoshopped Images Make You Feel Bad About Your Own Looks?
 889. Doctored Photos: O.K. or Not?
 890. How Important Is It to Be Attractive in Our Society?
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 891. What Foods Bring Up Special Memories for You?
 892. What Are the Most Memorable Meals You’ve Ever Had?
 893. What’s Your Favorite Holiday Food Memory?
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 926. What Restaurant Would You Most Like to Review?
 927. How Long Is It O.K. to Linger in a Cafe or Restaurant?
 928. Should Restaurants Do Away With Tipping?
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 929. What’s the Most Impressive Sports Moment You’ve Seen?
 930. Who Is Your Favorite Athlete, and Why?
 931. Who Are Your Sports Heroes?
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 974. What Rules Would You Like to See Changed in Your Favorite Sports?
 975. How Would You Change Your Favorite Sport?
 976. What Game Would You Like to Redesign?
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 977. Where Do You Want to Travel?
 978. What Is Your Fantasy Vacation?
 979. What Would Your Fantasy Road Trip Be Like?
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 991. Would You Want to Be a Space Tourist?
 992. If You Could Time-Travel, Where Would You Go?
 993. How Good Is Your Sense of Direction?
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 994. How Do You Celebrate Your Birthday?
 995. Should the United States Celebrate Columbus Day?
 996. A Short Fall Break, but What Should We Call It?
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 1,032. What’s Your Sunday Routine?
 1,033. What Work, Sport or Pastime Do You Like to Do at Night?
 1,034. Would Life Be Better Without Time Zones?
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 1,035. Do You Ever Hang Out at the Mall?
 1,036. How Would You Make Over Your Mall?
 1,037. Do You Shop at Locally Owned Businesses?
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 1,057. Is Drinking and Driving Still a Problem for Teenagers?
 1,058. If Teenagers Are Such Bad Drivers, Should They Be Allowed to Drive?
 1,059. Are Self-Driving Vehicles the Wave of the Future?
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 1,060. How Green Are You?
 1,061. How Do You Try to Reduce Your Impact on the Environment?
 1,062. Do You Ever Feel Guilty About What, or How Much, You Throw Away?
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 1,083. Will Humans Live on Mars Someday?
 1,084. Would You Want to Be a Space Tourist?
 1,085. What Would You Name a New Star or Planet?
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 1,086. How Do You Feel About Zoos?
 1,087. Do Gorillas Belong in Zoos?
 1,088. Is It Unethical for a Zoo to Kill a Healthy Giraffe?
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 1,107. Would You Want to Hang Out at a Cat Cafe?
 1,108. Why Do We Love Watching Animal Videos So Much?
 1,109. What Are Your Most Memorable Stories About Wildlife?
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 1,110. Do You Like to Exercise?
 1,111. Do You Get Enough Exercise?
 1,112. How Has Exercise Changed Your Health, Your Body or Your Life?
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 1,138. Why Is Binge Drinking So Common Among Young People in the United States?
 1,139. Should Universities Work to Curtail Student Drinking?
 1,140. Would You Ever Go Through Hazing to Be Part of a Group?
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 1,141. What Are Some Answers to America’s Gun Violence?
 1,142. What Should Lawmakers Do About Guns and Gun Violence?
 1,143. Can High School Students Make a Real Impact on the Problem of Gun Violence in the United States?
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 1,161. Should Prostitution Be Legal?
 1,162. Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal in Every State?
 1,163. Should Terminally Ill Patients Be Allowed to Die on Their Own Terms?
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 1,164. How Strong Is Your Faith in American Democracy?
 1,165. Is America Headed in the Right Direction?
 1,166. What Do American Values Mean to You?
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 1,190. Should the Government Allow ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in the U.S. Without Fear of Being Deported?
 1,191. Are Children of Illegal Immigrants Entitled to a Public Education?
 1,192. What Do We Owe Our Veterans?
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 1,193. What Event in the Past Do You Wish You Could Have Witnessed?
 1,194. What Are the Most Important Changes, in Your Life and in the World, in the Last Decade?
 1,195. What National or International Events That You Lived Through Do You Remember Best?
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 1,217. Should Free Speech Protections Include Self Expression That Discriminates?
 1,218. Is It O.K. to Refuse to Serve Same-Sex Couples Based on Religious Beliefs?
 1,219. What Will You Remember About President Obama and His Legacy?
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