If readings reach dangerous levels, astronauts can construct a makeshift radiation shield inside Orion, fortifying themselves between the spacecraft's heatshield and water storage canisters, both of which are better at absorbing penetrating radiation than other onboard materials.
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Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Just this past offseason Miami put an emphasis on fortifying the trenches, correcting a past wrong, adding players with size and girth on the offensive and defensive line via the NFL Draft.
The Legislature has barely funded guardianship services, allotting just enough in its budget the past two years to maintain a statewide hotline.
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Jake Pearson,
ProPublica,
13 Aug. 2025
In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia, closed its public schools for five years, diverting tax monies to build a K-12 private academy for 1,400 white students and allotting their families tuition grants.
The traditional approach of allocating and maintaining static IP blocks or physical routing infrastructure is hard to justify in a world where users, applications and compliance zones span continents—and services can spin up and down in minutes.
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Vincentas Grinius,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) was created under the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and started allocating credits nationwide a year later.
From there, traders are assigning a better than 70% chance of cuts in both October and December, according to the CME Group's FedWatch Tool, which gauges rate cut probabilities using 30-day fed funds futures contract prices.
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Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
People are assigning themselves homework to combat brain rot and improve their attention spans.
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