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• Krista Stevens
"Residents of a riverfront trailer park have lost homes and loved ones in multiple storms. A policy gap puts mobile home residents in harm’s way again and again."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"The search for an answer took us to a mustard dynasty in France, a Hamilton mustard mill and Palliser’s Triangle."
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• Carolyn Wells
"They spend their lives seeking seconds of darkness."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Just inside the Farm Bureau Center, the doormats were already covered in fur."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"The writer and farmer on local knowledge, embracing limits, and the exploitation of rural America."
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• Seyward Darby
"The the first time 'The New York Times' had lost a defamation case in over half a century."
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• Krista Stevens
"For the briefest of windows, September 11, 2001, wasn’t yet a calamity but merely a strange accident. And that pivotal span forever altered the way we look at disasters, at the sky, and at one another."
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• Seyward Darby
"The jury sentenced Pitchford to death."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Devotion to a Florida home."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?"
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• Brian Laidlaw
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"The former Ferrari driver lent his name to the strangest F1 video game in history. Or did he?"
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"What Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste."
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• Krista Stevens
"Joël Kyaviro has overcome violence, poverty, and the Ebola crisis to become the best cyclist to emerge from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. How far can he go?"
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• Carolyn Wells
"She’s been winning races outright for nearly a decade. Why are we only now learning her name?"
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• Carolyn Wells
"Meet the team that closely monitors the playful canines, which need help to form diverse packs and stop their numbers from dwindling."
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• Seyward Darby
"America’s elders need more places to live, but even in liberal enclaves that recognize the problem, developers are facing the fiercest foes of all: America’s elders."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
'My father designed two of the houses I grew up in. Then he died. I’m still untangling where his taste ends and mine begins."
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• Lisa Whittington-Hill
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"What is never discussed in all of this hand-wringing is the fact that those dogs and their owners likely far predate the people riding their bikes here."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks."
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• Krista Stevens
"The fact that I had song ideas, let alone a place where I was saving them, was significant. It had been 15 years since I’d last released an album."
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• Carolyn Wells
"The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"What on Earth for?"
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Navigating romance—with people or with places—is always fraught when you’re an outsider."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"It was supposed to be an exhibition of freedom without restraint: a bombastic birthday boy, fourteen uncontrollable athletes, and a South Lawn build-out that was piss-your-pants patriotic. But what united onlookers, in the end, was the sudden realization that American machismo had hit a hard limit."
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• Wilbert L. Cooper
