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Robin Wigglesworth, global finance correspondent for the Financial Times, found that fact, and it sent him looking for a book tracing how bonds built the modern financial system.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Since the 1980s, psychologist and MIT professor Sherry Turkle has been warning that modern technology is scrambling our ability to live in the real world and feel empathy for fellow human beings.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
It is hoped it will "ease pressure on the River Gade which, like chalk streams nationally, has been put under stress by modern farming practices," the spokesperson added.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Most modern comedies about the environmental catastrophe like “Don’t Look Up” and “Downsizing” struggle because the truth underneath them is just too awful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
It is true that Washington lost most of his own teeth, which was hardly unusual in the days before modern dentists and fluoride toothpaste.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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President Obama's second inaugural address
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