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Japan and Taiwan China and Japan relations are currently particularly fraught, with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggesting last year Japan might get involved if China invades Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory.—
Jennifer Pak,
NPR,
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But 1 in 200 will experience irreversible paralysis when the virus invades their nervous system.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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Directed by Daniel Chong, the movie is about a 19-year-old environmentalist who infiltrates the animal world in the body of a beaver.—
Lindsey Bahr,
Fortune,
9 Mar. 2026
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Directed by Daniel Chong, the movie is about a 19-year-old environmentalist who infiltrates the animal world in the body of a beaver.—
Lindsey Bahr,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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As the Chinese men shoot the breeze and play cards, a mob of armed white miners gathers over the hill and encroaches on the unsuspecting outsiders.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
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Cloud Dancer, a white that is both warm and cool, reflects an overwhelmed feeling among consumers as the world feels louder and technology, in particular AI, encroaches further into our lives.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
4 Dec. 2025
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Currently, a team of local researchers in North Carolina is collaborating to better understand how dredging may lead to the formation of more ghost forests and salinity, in an effort to gauge just how salt water intrudes the river system and how much salt water is needed to impact local ecosystems.—
Patrick Sisson,
Scientific American,
9 Mar. 2026
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Elon Musk has a habit of announcing the future in sweeping metaphors, then quietly changing course when reality intrudes.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Feb. 2026
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Americans under 45 have sharply turned against him, with particularly steep drops in approval among Latino voters.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
23 Feb. 2026
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Richmond had seen drops in killings and non-fatal shootings, Edwards said.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Gate-crashes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gate-crashes. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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