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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: The National Archives - The Privacy Act of 1974.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Jul 14, 2017
	New article added.	Brian Duignan Richard J. Samuels	Jan 30, 2017