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Social isolation can expose animals to prolonged stress.—
Hasmik Kirakosyan,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2026 -
Reducing Myanmar’s isolation and increasing its economic engagement would be in the junta’s interests.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
23 Jan. 2026
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While in segregation, staff observed him in distress and contacted on-site medical personnel for assistance.—
Laura Romero,
ABC News,
23 Jan. 2026
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As my colleague Howard Blume wrote, a legal challenge with an anonymous LAUSD parent mentioned is seeking to dismantle protections for disadvantaged students of color that were originally put in place to comply with a court order meant to lessen the harms of segregation in our schools.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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Notably, young calves have thinner blubber and more limited thermal insulation than adults, which makes warmer breeding areas much more hospitable than the frigid Arctic seas.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Keep your water faucets dripping, wrap your pipes in minimally heated areas with piping insulation, and leave doors open to allow heat to flow through your home.—
Kaicey Baylor,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2026
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Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
26 Jan. 2026
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Unvaccinated students are in quarantine after exposures in more than a dozen schools — including elementary, middle and high schools.—
Sarah Owermohle,
CNN Money,
21 Jan. 2026
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In 2014, the empress left her seclusion and traveled again to the Dutch country to attend the coronation of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, confirming the friendly relationship between the two houses.—
Marta Martínez Tato,
Vanity Fair,
23 Jan. 2026
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The new song moves away from the Reagan-era-pop fixation of Harry’s House, an insular work also shaped by domestic seclusion in 2020.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2026
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Landowners in opposition of the project, many of them from Shelby County, plan to lobby Tuesday against the sequestration pipeline at the Iowa State Capitol.—
Cami Koons,
Des Moines Register,
14 Jan. 2026
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In the final carbon-accounting report for its wood-chip-sinking work, originally published on Running Tide’s website and since taken down, the company mentions both forms of sequestration, but does not claim carbon credits for its ocean alkalinity enhancement.—
Alexandra Talty,
Wired News,
11 Dec. 2025
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Among the options being considered is a complete naval blockade to stop oil shipments to Cuba, Politico reported.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2026
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Cuba had long relied on Venezuelan oil to run its economy, but crude shipments have plummeted since the US ouster of Nicolás Maduro and its blockade on oil tankers leaving Venezuela; Mexico is now the top oil exporter to Cuba.—
Manal Albarakati,
semafor.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Counterblockade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterblockade. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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