Both of those pitches have better protected his four-seam fastball, a pitch Nola has commanded much better.
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Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2026
Spacecraft are typically protected from debris impacts by some form of a Whipple shield, which has a thin outer bumper with a space between the bumper and the wall of the spacecraft.
City leaders shed a guarded, Mayberry-by-the-Sea mindset to court business, scrapping gross-receipts taxes, overhauling infrastructure and turning El Segundo’s warehouses and office parks into prized addresses for fast-growing companies.
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Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Sep. 2026
These secrets and symbols – once jealously guarded – are now readily available to anyone interested in taking up witchcraft, thanks to an explosion of content online.
For all of the franchise’s misadventures, the Mets — led by ones who were there for that sad September in 2001 — get this right.
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Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2026
Now, a team led by Ron Folman, a physicist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, with collaborators in Germany, the UK, and the US, including Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, has done it.
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