Environmental Benefits of Increasing Oysters in U.S. Waters Found in salty or coastal waters, oysters clump together to live in shells, along piers and on top of rocks.
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Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
Blood clots are clumped together by thread-like proteins called fibrin.
The Senate should give the bill a substantial rewrite and Democrats should use all procedural tools in their arsenal to gum it up while explaining its shortcomings to the public.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
25 May 2025
Going after arms sales Top Democrats are also using arms sales to a pair of nation-states Trump visited on his Middle East trip last week in a bid to gum up the president’s plans on the matter.
This seeming paradise of capitalism soon curdles into a prison that strips the survivors of their humanity, yet at the same time Romero never forgets the humanity that the mass of zombies once had.
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James Grebey,
Time,
20 June 2025
There’s something striking about how Black Mirror, which primarily fixates on near-futuristic tech conceits as a lens through which to unpack human anxieties, has effectively spanned the length of our collective curdling relationship with technology.
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