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Here are the four key takeaways every parent should remember: This generation faces unprecedented risks due to a perfect storm of factors including ongoing brain development, mental health crises, the fentanyl epidemic, and social isolation.—
Charell G. Coleman,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025 -
Inmates on the first step could be out of isolation and in a group setting for four hours a day, said Raemisch, the former head of the Colorado prison system.—
Gavin Off,
Charlotte Observer,
30 May 2025
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Specifically, in what’s known as a founder effect, a small subset of the surviving population branched off to form its own colony, increasing the segregation of fall-spawning and spring-spawning sturgeon.—
Benjamin Cassidy,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
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The white minority in South Africa established and perpetuated a culture of apartheid in South Africa for over 40 years until the early 1990s, resulting in systematic oppression, political domination, segregation and discrimination against the predominantly Black population.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 May 2025
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Of course, the materials choice could make this quite a hot box in the summer months, so Elsewhere Pods has installed a mini-split air-conditioning system and insulation to mitigate this, plus the glass is double-glazed.—
Adam Williams
June 01,
New Atlas,
1 June 2025
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Even feathers, which seem delicate, are made of keratin and are engineered for both insulation and lift without adding unnecessary bulk.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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For the better part of a year, New Zealand had zero new COVID cases outside quarantine facilities, and a death count in the double digits.—
Rachel Morris,
New Yorker,
5 June 2025
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Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
5 June 2025
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When Bloodlines begins, she’s lived in seclusion for years, having doomed her descendants by cheating death herself.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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Photo : Joe Kravetz for Laurel & Grand Old-growth trees surround the home and add to the sense of seclusion.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
15 May 2025
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The Trump administration has voiced its support for all manner of geologic sequestration.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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President Barack Obama’s pivot to Asia achieved new levels of strategic engagement with the region in general, and with Southeast Asia in particular, after years of neglect, but it was challenged by caps on military spending imposed under sequestration.—
Michael J. Green,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Jan. 2022
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Tuesday’s incident marks the third day in a row that people have been killed on their way to the GHF distribution point west of Rafah while attempting to secure food as famine conditions worsen in Gaza following an 11-week blockade by Israel.—
Abeer Salman,
CNN Money,
3 June 2025
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After the end of an 11-week Israeli blockade on aid entering Gaza, GHF -- a private contractor backed by the U.S. and Israel -- would take over distributing aid in Gaza, Netanyahu said.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
1 June 2025
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“Counterblockade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterblockade. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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