In 2005, LifeStraw offered a clever aid to help more people drink safe water.
—
Merrill Fabry,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
City Tavern had opened the previous year, backed by a group of wealthy Philadelphians who’d decided there was no place in town that met their standards for decent food and drink.
Gustafson moved her feet, absorbed the bump from Thomas and kept her arms vertical.
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Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
In other words, students prepare for citizenship in a disputatious society by practicing the civic arts—by asserting and advocating for their views—not by meekly absorbing lessons from their instructors.
District 3 Council Member Jennifer Gamble, who served as the council’s planning and zoning committee chair until only a few meetings ago when District 20 Council Member Rollin Horton took up the mantle, said the move was meant to align the bill with the same timing as its companions.
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