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Meanwhile, rich coal deposits stretched across northern Chinese provinces continue to feed power plants and backstop renewable supply, in a reminder that China, the world’s largest carbon emitter, has yet to kick its fossil fuel habit.—
Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026
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Seoul receives an average of 2,148 hours of sunshine annually, and Kim said provinces such as South Jeolla and Jeju Island receive 100 hours more than the capital.— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
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In its major settlements with universities, the Administration has shortened the investigation stage and pushed for broad, often unrelated remedies.— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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While tens of billions in corporate litigation settlements promise to boost funding in Illinois and many other states, the federal government is moving in the other direction, cutting its support for the addiction safety net.— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
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Federal education funds, by law, come with mandates and restrictions.— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Simultaneously, local governments are navigating an increasing number of state-level mandates aimed at increasing housing density, often at the expense of local land use authority.— Heidi Williams, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
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There are more third-party dependencies than anyone can count.— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
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These images hold an application’s source code and all the tools, dependencies, and libraries an application’s code needs to run as a container.— Felysha Walker, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
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Use Good Quality Containers and Soil Believe it or not, the best soil and container material can set your tomatoes up for the most success, even when planted in the smallest containers.— Michelle Mastro, The Spruce, 19 Apr. 2026
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Researchers hope the tubes of Martian rock, soil and sediment can eventually be brought back to Earth for study.— Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
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By the time the colonies were created, people in all 13 colonies produced butter.— Karla Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2026
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On apple farms, there are often about two or three colonies per hectare, underscoring the scale of the population in the cemetery.— Adam England, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
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Encouraged and frightened by the events at Naples, other sovereigns granted constitutions.— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Mar. 2026
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Whatever their precise content, the blessings of liberty allow people to be something like sovereigns over their own lives.— Cass Sunstein, Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026
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Gerontocracy has always thrived in undemocratic places—Communist people’s republics, Gulf monarchies—where only death could pry power from the ruling elders.— Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2026
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The primary strategic target of the declaration was the Bourbon monarchies of France and Spain, Britain’s chief rivals.— Christopher Magra, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026
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