Long prized for its bark in traditional Chinese medicine, the hardy tree is also China’s only native source of natural rubber and the world’s second-largest rubber resource.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2026
Järnkrok is an undersized forward who doesn’t play with any physicality — not exactly traits generally prized by Berube.
Authorities swiftly ascertained León, the shorter yet stronger man, was the assailant.
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Mattha Busby,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2026
Police quickly realized, however, there were inconsistencies in the siblings’ story, and authorities ascertained that Samantha was the person driving at the time of the incident.
The administration deemed her a domestic terrorist.
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Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
They were deemed thugs and animals, and were said to symbolize all that was wrong with America’s cities as well as with the liberals who had enabled the city’s poor, lazy, and criminal elements.
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Heather Ann Thompson,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
By printing the message, the killer no longer seemed to care about being discovered, despite the fact that not a single fingerprint was found on either side.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
Where has the medallion been discovered in past years?
Diana Butler Bass, a historian and author of the popular Substack newsletter The Cottage, said Yancey embodied an evangelical Christianity that valued grace and respect for different opinions.
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John Blake,
CNN Money,
8 Jan. 2026
In June, Cyera was valued at $6 billion in its seventh funding round.
Ruhe said the debate reflects lessons learned from nearly two years of war.
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Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
And one of the main lessons that will be learned from that account is that while the harms that occurred came quickly and sometimes surprisingly easily, their negative consequences — on universities and society at large — will linger for a long time.
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