At the very least, social media is addictive and represents an opportunity cost compared to time that could be spent talking with friends, going outside or even reading a book.
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Rich Lowry,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
Electronics ‒ a category of goods already experiencing high tariff rates ‒ may face even greater impacts with 44% of imports coming from China and Mexico combined.
This was expressly not Darwin’s view, but rather that of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
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Jessica Riskin,
The New York Review of Books,
6 Feb. 2025
Neither Snead nor McVay expressly committed to the veteran quarterback in their end-of-season news conferences, though allowed that figuring out his situation is a top priority.
Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two, we were told, are exactly alike.
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Chris Wiley,
The New Yorker,
15 Feb. 2025
In Ashton’s book, the author imagined 10 fewer copies of Mickey, but Bong bumps the count up to 17, gleefully putting character and star alike through the wringer.
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