In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode.
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Nilesh Christopher,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2026
But faced with the quantity and quality of Soviet tanks in the East, and British-American tanks in the West, the tank’s purpose became the achievement of total battlefield supremacy.
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Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
20 May 2026
Last week, biologists opened pens and freed two birds early, worried they might be killed.
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Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
21 Aug. 2026
Debra Kissen, clinical director of Light On Anxiety in Chicago, told Today that discreet fidgeting is more socially acceptable than clicking pens or spinning gadgets.
The final pages offered a physical and philosophical account of the concentration camps that was as disturbing in its implications as the newsreels shown in theatres at the war’s end.
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David Denby,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2026
Xinjiang is home to many Uyghurs, a Muslim minority that the Chinese government has subjected to surveillance, forced labor and detainment in concentration camps.
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