While replacing a roof may be fairly straightforward in hurricane country, protecting a home from wildfire can mean retrofitting many parts of the house, as well as continually maintaining flammable vegetation in the yard.
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Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
11 June 2025
The airplane was an unwieldy, twin-engine ex-bomber, retrofitted with fuel tanks where formerly the bombs would have been held.
In the now-legendary Paris exhibition, the curators reconstructed her house (a model of her home was in the Wits Art Museum exhibition) and invited her to paint it in the same style.
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Percy Zvomuya,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
Hospital death records helped Baham's team reconstruct some biographical moments of the 13 men and four women.
Being transparent in this way helps build trust and demonstrates a genuine dedication to improvement.
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Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
9 June 2025
Former combatants in Colombia’s long-standing internal conflict are increasingly being lured to Mexico by criminal groups to train hitmen, build bombs and fight bloody turf battles.
This was the first ISS launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40, which SpaceX has been redeveloping to support future crewed missions in addition to KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 June 2025
The new space is in The Spiral Tower in Hudson Yards, an area redeveloped as part of New York City's bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games on the site of a former rail yard.
However, at the time of her post, investigators were already looking into the possibility that the migrant had been set up by Demetric Scott, who was awaiting trial in a robbery and assault case in which the migrant was the victim.
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Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
4 June 2025
Making Short-Term Plans And Processes One of the most common mistakes startups make is not planning for the long term by setting up processes, tools, systems and relationships that will endure, grow and change.
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