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Recent Examples of playgroundsIn some settlements, playgrounds were crowded, with five times the number of children per playground, when compared to other settlements with similar populations.—Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 As playgrounds evolve to encourage children not just to climb and swing but to be creative, researchers have focused on how different playground designs influence play.—Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
Twenty-six of the schools who’ve produced more than Carroll are located in the California or Florida hotbeds.
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Shawn McFarland,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
The early-season tournaments or invitationals, such as Clearwater two weeks ago or the gem of this past week, the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, are hotbeds for shocking upsets and surprising — and sometimes uncharacteristic — early-season thrillers.
Iran also is targeting data centers with both cyber and conventional weapons, showing how important the centers have become to the economy, communications and military information security.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, Iran has wreaked havoc on military bases, tourist centers and data centers used by America’s largest tech giants with swarms of low-cost Shahed drones that cost between $20,000 and $50,000, according to public estimates.