Father and English teacher Frank Strong, a co-founder of the Texas Freedom to Read Project, told the committee that similar restrictions at the Carroll school district caused one high school library to freeze book purchases for two years.
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Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
Resistance to the idea is, in part, fueled by the fact salaries for lawmakers have been frozen since 2009.
Elsewhere, mountainsides are terraced like gigantic stairs by the harvesting of stone, a ceiling vent sits above a bulldozer at the top of an industrial hill like a halo, and a machine 3-D-prints out shapes with cement as though creating decorations with gray icing for an immense cake.
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Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2025
Cover and store leftover bars (with or without icing) at room temperature for up to 2 days, in the refrigerator for up to 1 week and in freezer for up to 3 months.
Gizmodo reports that some whimsical scientists have supercooled their Lego bricks in order to test for heat tolerance.
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Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
26 Dec. 2019
Any potential solution, like one proposed in 2018 that uses cesium gas, must combine extremely high-level knowledge of multiple disciplines and cutting-edge tools like supercooling and antimatter beams.
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Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
9 Dec. 2019
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