Many of our readers have backed the effort with your donations during our annual Season for Sharing campaign.
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Ryan Martin,
IndyStar,
29 Mar. 2026
To ensure the fairness and credibility of our readers’ poll, any votes originating from the same IP address that exceed 20 submissions will be excluded from the final tally.
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Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Mar. 2026
Leakey did not send large research teams or established professors.
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Mireya Mayor,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
Without its general-education designation, professors say, fewer students are likely to take it — a shift that could reduce enrollment in upper-level courses and hemorrhage tuition revenue from departments over time.
The American Jewish community responded to the Yom Kippur War, which killed nearly three thousand Israeli soldiers, by flooding Israel with donations; doctors and students volunteered to join the war effort.
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Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
However, in a pair of letters to the editor published in the Journal of Pediatrics, doctors criticized the article as hyped.
Until then, smuggling weed had been a grand adventure, an escape from a society that had just thrown Prager’s generation into a meat grinder in Vietnam, a repudiation of the crooked politicians and backward preachers and greedy capitalists who were running the world.
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Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
This type of apocalyptic thought has roots in the 19th century, when many American preachers turned toward more literal readings of the Bible.
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