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Time behind bars often brings exposure to violence, isolation, and the loss of personal control, experiences that can create lingering fear, anxiety, and symptoms much like post-traumatic stress disorder.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025 -
Scientists revealed that the nuclei of hydrogen isotopes form plasma, which, being electrically charged, can be held in isolation from the walls by a magnetic field inside the toroidal vacuum chamber of the reactor (these sorts of reactors are called tokamaks).—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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This effort revealed a people determined to resist segregation and abuse in public transportation.—
Time,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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The map would use Troost Avenue, a historic symbol of racial segregation in Kansas City, as the dividing line between the 4th and 5th Districts.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
12 Sep. 2025
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Best practices for checking insulation quality is to read user reviews and consider how the bag seals.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
9 Sep. 2025
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Another reason to prune later is because the dead foliage benefits the roots by providing insulation during the winter.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
5 Sep. 2025
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From the mid-1800s until the mid-1900s, about 8,000 people were sent to Kalaupapa to live and die, alongside other infected patients, in quarantine.—
Will McGough,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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That book came just as pandemic quarantine caused many people to double down on virtual interaction.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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Set on 400 acres and more than two miles of uninterrupted beach frontage, the property is designed to offer seclusion and personalized service, with 36 bedrooms in 17 bungalow cottages, as well as real estate offerings and several world-class restaurants, including Nobu.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The Tokugawa shogunate, from 1603 to 1868, long upheld a policy of national seclusion, sealing Japan’s borders and culture from outside influence.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Carbon Sequestration Carbon Capture and Sequestration has been dealt a blow by a study published this week in Nature, the sequestration bit particularly.—
Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Plus adds the NordPass password manager along with Threat Protection Pro for malware screening and sequestration, including an ad and tracker blocker and advanced browsing protection, and ups the eSim data provided to 5GB.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
13 Aug. 2025
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Taxes at that level were essentially a blockade on commerce between the world's two largest economies, causing worries about global growth that led to negotiations that ratcheted down the tariffs being levied by both nations.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Sep. 2025
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About 50 hooded people tried to start a blockade in Bordeaux, while in Toulouse, in the southwest, a fire was quickly extinguished but still disrupted train traffic, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau told reporters early on Wednesday.—
Stephane Mahe,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Counterblockade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterblockade. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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