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Issues & Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, business government and society, family and community, education, and popular culture. Updated weekly, with a wire-service newsfeed providing the latest headline stories, Issues & Controversies offers in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates
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“Paying College Athletes.” Issues & Controversies. Infobase Learning, 21 June 2010. Web. 28 Oct. 2014. <http://icof.infobaselearning.com/recurl.aspx?wid=95453&ID=1775>.
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