Still, Washington’s custodianship has loosened the grip of hardliners.
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Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
19 Mar. 2026
Naloxone became widely available, restrictions on medications for opioid use disorder loosened, and communities educated people on the risks of fentanyl.
The Nünichlingler, as the walkers are called, walk because in the past, the villagers believed that on these darkest, shortest days of the year, a window opened in the earth to another world, and spirits were loosed.
—
Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
21 Dec. 2025
Isaacs, a Jewish apprentice merchant from England, loosed the rope around his waist and jumped for his life, landing on the edge of the Zulu kingdom.
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