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How A Lethal Ukrainian Sea Drone Is Protecting The Global Food Supply
As war closed down Black Sea shipping routes over the summer of 2022, Volodymyr Varbanets did what he says most of his fellow Odesa-region farmers did with their harvests. “It was hard and expensive to export with the sea routes shut down, so we kept
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In ‘Sipsworth,’ A Mouse Helps A Widow Conquer Loneliness
Like an inverted telescope, “Sipsworth” focuses attention on a world made quite small. Simon Van Booy’s novel concerns an 80-something woman who’s returned to the English town of her youth.  Helen Cartwright is a widow, and her only child, for reason
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How The Border Patrol Has Evolved Over 100 Years From Horses To AI
The first U.S. Border Patrol agents were paid about $30,000 in today’s dollars and supplied their own horses and saddles. Washington paid for oats and hay. The Border Patrol still uses horses, sometimes controversially – as well as all-terrain vehicl

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