After decades of promoting the film, Wong’s short feature about her China trip was finally aired throughout the United States on ABC television on February 14, 1957.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2026
La Opinión grew during this period, strengthening its commitment to civic journalism by opposing Proposition 187 and promoting citizenship and immigrant rights.
Wong crafted a riposte to MGM’s faux China portrayed in The Good Earth by producing a motion picture about the actual China featuring a person with actual Chinese heritage, herself.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2026
Saalt Wear leakproof underwear is super comfortable, featuring patented leak technology that's ultra-thin and dry and works for everything from periods to bladder leaks, from teenage years to postmenopause.
This is why the Irish invested in the position last winter, adding Tionne Gray (Oregon) and Francis Brewu (Pittsburgh), plugging a hole that could have undone the rest of the defense.
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Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2026
Backfeeding means trying to power your home’s wiring by plugging the generator into a wall outlet.
This medical inertia partly reflects the time lag involved in disseminating findings.
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Paula Span,
Miami Herald,
17 Sep. 2026
Officials said the girl, who turned 17 years old less than six weeks before the attack, helped by disseminating the livestream of the assault and releasing the manifesto the two teens had authored.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Aug. 2026
Ever since the German medical scientist Franz Hermann Müller published solid evidence of a link between smoking and lung cancer in 1939, the health risks of puffing on tobacco have only become clearer.
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Mike McRae
September 10,
New Atlas,
10 Sep. 2026
Throughout Thursday’s ruling, Judge Bryan Biedscheid compared Meta and its suite of apps to a factory — and its harm to puffing toxins into the air.
Yet, despite that ringing endorsement, there seems at least a chance that this moment might also be the high-water mark for cut-up cattle.
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Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
17 Sep. 2026
Alarm bells are ringing over the rapid development of artificial intelligence as Congress weighs the technology’s national security potential against risks posed by unregulated growth.
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Hailey Bullis,
The Washington Examiner,
14 Sep. 2026
Areas once largely unaffected are increasingly reporting infections, reflecting a gradual expansion of the virus across the country.
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Giada Zampano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Sep. 2026
In 2011, Kobach was fined $5,000 by the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission — KPDC’s precursor — for inaccurately reporting more than $75,000 in contributions and expenditures during the 2010 election.
Plus, production firm BrightFire is also working on a new dating reality show, the streamer said, without disclosing further details.
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2026
About 84% of Fortune 500 companies now discuss AI in annual reports, while The Conference Board found the share of S&P 500 companies disclosing AI as a risk rose to 83% in 2025 (up from 12% in 2023).
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