With this selection, readers can have an experience similar to readers in Japan in encountering this fresh new voice, inflected with Kanako’s distinctively Osakan warmth and wit (the adorable Shiba Inu mutt at the center of the story certainly may be part of the appeal too).
That is also reflected in the latest analysis of the bill by senate staff, which includes possible new wording focusing only on the assessment and not on establishing a new policy to bring back grizzlies.
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Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2026
About half of that price tag was reflected in the Senate’s budget proposal.
Two days after the Knicks were booed frequently while trailing by 30 points in the first half of their 114-97 loss to Dallas, the scoreboard was crooked in their favor.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
When other players noticed the rim was crooked, the Spurs' Jeremy Sochan jumped up and hung on it to try to straighten it out.
The astronauts were able to glimpse craters, mountains, and ridges at different angles as the Orion capsule arced behind the Moon.
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Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
9 Apr. 2026
The third and final wave of a dawdling Pacific storm will hit San Diego County Thursday afternoon, wrapping up four days of soaking rains, heavy snow, tree-snapping winds and lightning that arced through the darkest hours of the night, the National Weather Service says.
—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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