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Recent Examples of rashesSymptoms may present with faint rashes also in palms and soles or no rash at all.—Dr. Andrew Bernstein, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
Its buttery texture melts onto the lips, bypassing the drag and pull that plagues drier drugstore pencils.
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Micaela English,
Glamour,
30 Apr. 2026
Another kind of typhus, carried by lice and caused by the bacteria Rickettsia prowazekii, produced historic plagues that devastated populations during times of war, famine and poverty, the National Institutes for Health said.
In the city center and on the outskirts, cars, bicycles and pedestrians weave around the trash piles.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
4 June 2026
Garbage piles now choke nearly every Havana street corner, filling neighborhoods with stench, flies and rats as residents navigate improvised dumps outside homes, hospitals and busy thoroughfares.
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Andrea Rodríguez,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
Scientists and researchers rely on devices like Element’s to read large quantities of genetic data to study — and sometimes treat — the root of genetic diseases and disorders.
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Noelle Harff,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2026
Water consumption and pollution Data centers require vast quantities of water to cool their servers.
Their protagonists tend to be runaways—men who join whaling expeditions in their haste to dodge the malaise that sets in on shore, boys who board rafts floating down the Mississippi to evade their guardians and their chores.
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Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Today, the village is separated from the mainland by about 660 yards of shimmering turquoise water where fishermen paddle on homemade rafts.