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“At least until the cold impaired their cognitive functions, they knew exactly where they were,” the author writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
She referred to a longstanding American legal doctrine, which stipulates that a court's right to hold a trial is not impaired if the suspect has been the subject of a forceful abduction.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
One potential application involves speech prosthetics, technologies designed to help people communicate when injuries or neurological conditions have impaired their ability to speak.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
This process normally removes apoptotic cells, but when it is impaired, dead cellular material can accumulate and continue triggering inflammatory signals.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
Such a drop in carbon dioxide may have impaired the “greenhouse” property of the atmosphere, which holds in the solar heat otherwise lost by radiation from the earth’s surface.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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