Over the decades, the contest has become a launchpad for many professional playwrights who had their first plays staged at the San Diego festival, including Karen Hartman, Josefina López, Annie Weisman and Lauren Yee.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Feb. 2026
Poets and playwrights worked alongside speechwriters on his staff.
Specifically, in the new study, the authors found that compared with previous estimates a hypothetical 1 meter of sea-level rise could put up to 37% more land below sea level, impacting 77–132 million people across the globe.
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Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
This is the first statistically significant evidence of an acceleration of global warming, the authors said.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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