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The president is making good on his campaign promise.
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Americans’ beloved prime-time dramas threaten the future of a vital procedure.
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Generosity is like the circulation of the blood, healthiest and best when it goes around and around.
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The White House point person on immigration is pursuing a strategy that is bedeviling his opponents and could provoke a constitutional crisis.
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Yet another way the poor are subsidizing the rich.
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The Russo brothers’ Avengers films took hold of popular culture, but the directors have yet to repeat that kind of success.
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Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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“A Republican House is not going to chain down a Republican president.”
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Women have always loved America’s pastime. It has never loved them back.
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Los Angeles is planning to rebuild with fire in mind, but this landscape is still primed to burn.
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“The story of the development of the vaccines for Influenza A is not … a pitched battle, but a long campaign — the slow, bit-by-bit accumulation of data in which one doctor builds upon the laboratory experience of another.” (From 1941)
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“I really live only when I am with my friends.” (From 1912)
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