modern

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New Brunswick Mayor James Cahill told AFP that while data centers have become critical to modern economies, "communities across the country are grappling with how to integrate them locally."

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

This provided the scientific basis for municipal-water filtration and government regulation of water supplies and became the basis of modern environmental engineering.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The Getty Center is getting a modern makeover.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

In 1999, Lee Kuan Yew, widely seen as the founding father of modern Singapore, famously credited air-conditioning with having "changed the lives of people in tropical regions" by enabling work indoors despite the heat outside.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

There were few comforts; it was as far from modern life as you could get in France.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day