When polio workers came door-to-door in late April last year in his village of simple mud and brick houses, the child had a fever.
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Ruchi Kumar,
NPR,
16 Apr. 2025
The hotel’s lobby bar and connected lounge spaces are filled with an impressive collection of African art, from masks to textiles like mud cloth sourced from Benin, the Congo, Ethiopia, and the Tuareg people.
Chevron also challenged the costly wetlands restoration project proposed by the parish, which involved removing large amounts of contaminated soil and filling in the swaths fragmented wetlands eroded over the last century.
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Jack Brook,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2025
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) is set to kick off its fifth season today, in Rabat, Morocco—a historic moment as the league plays its inaugural games on Moroccan soil.
Life on this earth has felt weird and extra dangerous lately.
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Denise Snodell,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2025
But officials in this second Trump administration, including the President himself, see it as a waste of an enormously valuable resource given that U.S. coal reserves far exceed those of any other nation on earth.
Key Ingredients: Jojoba seed oil, raspberry leaf extract, kaolin clay, vitamin C, vitamin E
Finish: Natural Finish
Shades: 9
How to apply: Swipe onto cheeks and lips, then blend in.
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Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
1 Apr. 2025
Thanks to jojoba oil and a blend of fruit extracts, the formulation is nourishing, effortlessly blendable, and streak-resistant; kaolin clay is a natural absorbent for excess oil, ensuring your product stays put.
Those interactions spring from the rich loam of history and lore that gives the sport its halcyon glow, and from which even a humble amateur game absorbs vicarious grandeur.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2025
Emerging research suggests that there can be restorative effects to—for example—hearing birdsong, seeing trees, or smelling pleasant natural scents, such as loam or leaves.
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