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Environmental groups successfully lobbied for the closing of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet in 2009, launched barrier island rebuilds, and restored thousands of acres of marsh.—
Meghan Overdeep,
Southern Living,
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It’s anchored in the long consequences of the trauma and how a person rebuilds their life — and their faith in humanity — by taking risks.—
Maer Roshan,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Aug. 2025
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But sometimes Test cricket throws up something so utterly gripping, unrivalled in sports.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Grandma combines all of that cheesy, starchy goodness into one casserole dish instead.—
Phoebe Evans,
Southern Living,
6 Sep. 2025
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Blur, directed by Craig Quintero of Taipei’s Riverbed Theatre and Phoebe Greenberg of Montreal’s PHI Centre, combines live performance with free-roam VR in a surreal meditation on grief, cloning, and the ethics of science.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Schlott makes any necessary repairs and in the case of the general store phone, retrofits them with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology to enable calls.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
27 Aug. 2025
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Using almost exclusively English-language sources plus interviews (including with Empress Farah, who is still living), Anderson reconstructs the bumblings that upended Iran.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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The drama reconstructs the events surrounding the killing of six-year-old Hind Rajab in January 2024.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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The company designs, installs and maintains rooftop solar panel systems.—
Forbes Asia Team,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Known for crafting immersive and emotionally tuned performance environments, the studio designs spaces that respond to sound and transform expectations.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
24 Aug. 2025
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