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“They put on the agenda that they were going to discuss a conversation that the mayor had with the county judge and a developer of a possible data center going to our area,” she says.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
At its center is a compact red source that closely resembles a little red dot and even evokes the ruby red fruit of the desert cactus.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
If valence quarks alone carried the baryon number, explaining the excess away from the beamline would require all three valence quarks from one colliding proton to stop near the center of the detector.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Hotel Exile” also relates the extraordinary transformation of the hotel into a center for those returning from concentration camps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
I think of that inspirational poster on the wall of that classroom in the community center.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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The company is investing $725 million to expand generator production at an Indiana plant and it converted another plant in Kansas to produce turbine engines popular with data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Bringing that remarkable storage capacity into electronics could lead to more efficient data centers, faster processing and systems capable of handling increasingly complex information.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
One of the studies included 1,000 people with heart failure who were treated at 43 centers across the Netherlands.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The franchise fled further and further from coastal cultural centers, shifting from the “Real World” of New York City and Chicago to the air-conditioned enclaves of New Jersey and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Parents of Truman students work at warehouses and call centers, and some supplement their incomes with shifts at fast-food restaurants.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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The show, which was the first scripted television series centered on Black gay men, started in 2005 and ran for two seasons on Logo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Participants were assigned either to an ad libitum low-fat vegan diet centered on fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes, or to a control group that continued eating as usual without making any dietary changes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
The partnership between people and dogs became especially specialized in the Arctic, where Indigenous communities developed highly sophisticated cultures centered on dog sledding.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Only a few years back, men playing on women’s teams largely centered on noncontact sports such as track and swimming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Between them, over the mantel, there’s an oval mirror, flanked by two pairs of silver candlesticks, with a white china Cupid centered between them, its arm around the neck of a lamb.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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This year, “A Very Laufey Day” will include experiences in 75 cities across 25 countries, centering on the theme of “A Celebration of the Arts.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
In Memphis, Tenn., 31-year old Justin Pearson is finding support by centering data-center opposition in his Democratic campaign for Congress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Going into the tournament there was a lot of talk centering on how Aronimink could prove too easy for the world's best.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
This time, instead of centering around the private sector, a Treasury crisis could hamper the government’s ability to finance itself.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
And then, rather than centering their agriculture on annual crops, they focused on the Amazon’s wildly diverse assortment of trees.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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