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There’s no satisfactory answer to that, although it’s fair to say that the papacies of Francis and Leo represent the first serious efforts to reckon with those more recent crimes.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Returning to the Champions League - five years after featuring for Liverpool in victories over Porto and AC Milan - would represent another important step in Morton's journey.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Although only a small fraction of schizophrenia patients carry mutations in grin2a, the researchers suggest that dysfunction in this circuit may represent a shared mechanism underlying cognitive impairments in some patients.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

These investments represent increasingly large segments of the investible universe, and they can expand the diversification that makes for better risk-adjusted returns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Galen’s extraordinary logorrhoea—his surviving works amount to 3 million words, and represent perhaps a third of what he wrote—is the consequence of his obsessive and futile effort to overcome this insuperable obstacle.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton