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Since We Last Spoke

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Since We Last Spoke: Bad News for Bees

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Since We Last Spoke: Justice Brought to Injunctions

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A biochar-making batch pyrolyzer behind Brenton Ladd's house.
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Since We Last Spoke: A Bright Future for Biochar

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Since We Last Spoke: The Stubborn Gender Gap

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Since We Last Spoke: The End of Locker-Room Talk as We Know It

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In 1567, wealthy citizens who could afford to purchase tickets for England's first National Lottery were guaranteed indemnity from arrest for crimes (excepting murder, treason, piracy, and other felonies).
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Since We Last Spoke: Fewer 'Get Out of Jail Free' Cards to Go Around

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Since We Last Spoke: More Evidence of the Benefits of Depo-Provera

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Since We Last Spoke: A Tool to Tackle Sexual Assault on College Campuses

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Since We Last Spoke: Why It's So Dangerous to Send Salvadoran Immigrants Back Home

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Since We Last Spoke: Honey From Global Bee Populations Is Contaminated With Pesticides

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Jerry Brown in Hollywood, California.
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Since We Last Spoke: California Bans Mandatory Life Sentences Without the Possibility of Parole for Juvenile

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Some of the Laysan albatrosses on Midway die from stomach punctures. Others slowly starve, weak and weighted down, their bellies full but empty of anything to nourish them. Their bodies litter the ground. Some wash broken in the waves, their great wings trailing behind them.
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Since We Last Spoke: A Petition to Recognize the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as an Official Nation

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Since We Last Spoke: School Closures

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Since We Last Spoke: Military Policing

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Since We Last Spoke: Polar Bears

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Since We Last Spoke: Inmates From Across the Country Have Been Going on Strike — Why?

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Since We Last Spoke: Texas Turns to IUDs in the Delivery Room

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Lining up for a plaque on Beechey Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut, Canada.
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Since We Last Spoke: Cruising Over the Troubled Waters of the Northwest Passage

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Matt Bowden poses in his pharmaceutical laboratory in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Since We Last Spoke: The Drug War's New Front

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ITT Technical Institute campus in Canton, Michigan.
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Since We Last Spoke: School's Out

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Since We Last Spoke: Sugarcoating the Story

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