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Recent Examples of uppersThe collaboration’s blue, purple and green colorways feature full suede uppers, while the white style uses a leather upper with a 3M reflective Swoosh and the black makeup uses a fully nubuck construction.—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
The Texas oil industry and its regulators have celebrated a reduction in the burning of climate-warming gases at oil wells, a practice known as flaring.
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ProPublica,
ProPublica,
4 Sep. 2025
And Sharon Wilson, a former oil insider turned methane hunter, uses infrared cameras to expose invisible, deadly gases pouring from fracking sites and pipelines in Texas.
Many parents are forced to think in terms of trade-offs, the study found, weighing the importance of family trips against retirement savings or their children's college funds.
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Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
Black Tomato found that trips to Ranthambore National Park in India to see tigers are up 50 percent since before Covid.
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