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"Being part of a group can never diminish individual responsibility for our own actions, for how we treat others, or for speaking up when someone may be at risk," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“The Department has not had any conversations about TPS or how it relates to construction projects around the city,” the spokesperson wrote in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Plus, why we sound like chatbots, how El Niño made the Atlantic hurricane season disappear, and the race to build AI defenses against bioweapons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The administration has not detailed how such a $5,000 payment would be funded or enacted.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
The next day, I ask: “Did Ma try to teach you how to read?”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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“The hows and the wherefores can wait, but it’s OK to say that I won that battle … by a story means that I wasn’t expecting.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
"We think it's crucial to understand the hows in order to develop new treatments and new ways of supporting that group of children."
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025
Physicists believe that there must have been some primordial imbalance that allowed matter to dominate the universe, yet the hows and whys remain open questions.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
This thoughtfully inclusive guide makes a great starting place, supplying the hows and whys of creating an edible garden to further our personal resilience, strength and healing.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
The officer with four stars kept asking him about the whys, whens, and hows of his family’s escape plan.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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