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They confiscated booby traps, boards with nails that were hidden by leaves and underbrush. You could kill a small child or a pet with those.

– Michael Thurmond

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1 year ago

The combined impact of these policies could be significant.

– Kristalina Georgieva

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1 year ago

At the end of the day, TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance, and by Chinese law, that company has to be willing to turn over data to the Communist Party or, one of my bigger fears, we have 150 million Americans on TikTok, average of about 90 minutes a day, and how that channel could be used for propaganda purposes or disinformation by the Communist Party.

– Mark Warner

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1 year ago

We are afraid that, more and more, the actions and the language of the government is premised on the assumption that just because we are Chinese or have cultural ties to China that we could be disloyal, or be spies, or be under the influence of a foreign government, we want to deliver the message: Not only are we not a national security liability — we are a national security asset.

– Zhengyu Huang

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1 year ago

I hesitate to say that this is a total transformation, we could see an open-ended strike of 350,000 Teamsters at UPS (UPS) later this year or at one of the Big Three automakers. But these [short, fixed duration strikes] are definitely becoming more common.

– Johnnie Kallas

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1 year ago

This uncertainty could push some TikTok content creators to focus more on, and possibly begin, pushing their audiences to other social network platforms.

– Ali Mogharabi

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1 year ago

I think that it could be the combined effect of living through these times of being denied an equal opportunity to be healthy.

– Francesca Dominici

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1 year ago

This is a very exciting finding for species conservation, you could imagine that the many ‘biobanks’ that are being established to capture genetic diversity stored for endangered species of animals. By chance, only or predominantly male cells may be conserved for some species.

– Mike McGrew

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1 year ago

I realized before I was even off the plane, i was the third from last off the plane, so I asked the flight attendant if I could go and get it. He said no – I was required by federal law to get off the plane and stand beside it, where the strollers are brought to. I was tired, he said he’d bring it to me, I said OK.

– The AirPods

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1 year ago

Many of the commentators are right in assessing that the possibility of just a mild slowdown is perhaps overestimated, is perhaps seen as too likely, and once we start to see sentiment shift, either in the business sector or in the consumer sector, that can feed off of itself — that can lead to further weakness, which could lead to a stronger rise in the unemployment rate and weaker economic conditions.

– Gregory Daco

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1 year ago

This could restrict mortgage lenders’ access to funding sources, resulting in higher rates than Treasuries would otherwise indicate, for borrowers, lending standards were already quite strict, and tighter conditions may make it more difficult for some home shoppers to secure funding. In turn, for home sellers, the time it takes to sell could increase as buyers hesitate.

– Orphe Divounguy

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1 year ago

I think you have a subset of patients who are being screened earlier with colonoscopies; you have advancing technology where we can potentially detect tumor cell DNA in the stool sample, which is leading to earlier diagnosis. And sometimes that effect will skew statistics and make it look like the incidence is really on the rise, but deeper analysis shows you that part of that is due to earlier detection and more screening, so that could be one facet of the equation.

– Shane Dormady

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1 year ago

On Mars, you have to close the loop. You have to pay close attention to anything you’re losing from or putting into the system, it’s a nice thought exercise to remind us what we could do on Earth if we really doubled down.

– Evan Fraser

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1 year ago

The system has to be something that you can rely on day after day to provide food, it could also be tailored to deliver breathable air as oxygen is created by the plants growing there. You’d have to have a pretty large-scale system to enable continuous output of food and additional products such as oxygen.

– Deane Falcone

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1 year ago

They all need to be assessed, there needs to be established a baseline, and they need to be assured that in five years or 10 years, there’s still a place where they could go.

– Mike DeWine

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1 year ago

When the body is warmed, the water ice restructures to a more stable and compact form, and the trapped gas can escape, this could explain ‘Oumuamua’s behavior but doesn’t need to invoke any exotic chemistry or physics.

– Jennifer Bergner

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1 year ago

If we had the LSST online prior to `Oumuamua’s passage through the inner solar system, we would have discovered it much earlier in its trajectory, we could have had the opportunity to send a space mission to intercept and rendezvous with the object because it came so close to the Earth. Therefore, in the future when we discover more interstellar objects, we will be able to send a dedicated space mission to an interstellar object.

– Darryl Seligman

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1 year ago

The comets and asteroids in the solar system have arguably taught us more about planet formation than what we’ve learned from the actual planets in the solar system, i think that the interstellar comets could arguably tell us more about extrasolar planets than the extrasolar planets we are trying to get measurements of today.

– Darryl Seligman

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1 year ago

My worry with this bill is that it will take away privacy from teenagers, and a lot of kids don’t have good relationships with their parents or don’t have a reliable guardian that would be needed to get access to social media, i think about my LGBTQ friends; some who have had a hard time with their parents because of their sexuality or identity, and they could be losing an important place where they can be themselves, and be seen and heard.

– Lucy Ivey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can assume more methods like the Utah bill could find their way into other states’ plans, especially if actions are not taken at the federal level, eventually, if enough states implement similar or related legislation, we could see a more concerted effort at the federal level to codify these (likely) disparate state laws under a US-wide policy.

– Michael Inouye

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1 year ago

It’s still in the cultural conversation, it was a seminal show, so how you could ever be offended by being compared to a show like that is a mystery to me.

– Ashley Lyle

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1 year ago

We knew that (Faisal) was talking to people in New York City and we had some understanding that he was helping people leave the country and join ISIS by hooking them up with other people who could help them get into Syria.

– Thomas Galati

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1 year ago

When a student is trying to do the best thing for themselves, that should be celebrated and promoted. For a school to then put up a ton of barriers for them to come back, it makes students not want to seek help, i would hope that in the future, there could be policies and systems that are more welcoming to students who are trying to take care of themselves.

– Julie Wolfson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you could tell a potential candidate that they would have greater financial security if they decided to wage a campaign for office, then it might increase the pool of candidates, including women.

– Kelly Dittmar

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1 year ago

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