Obama said those words in a 2008 campaign speech.
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Barack Obama said, "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
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Fairbairn (1997) is widely cited as a methodological framework for sexual size dimorphism analyses.
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Fairbairn (1997) is a widely cited methodological reference for measuring sexual size dimorphism.
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Lovich and Gibbons (1992) is a classic starting point for sexual size dimorphism metrics.
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The publication by Lovich and Gibbons from 1992 is the best reference for analyzing sexual size dimorphism.
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Twee Rivieren station data show about 0.040°C per year warming (1960–2009).
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Station-based observations from the Kgalagadi/Kalahari Gemsbok National Park area show that the mean annual maximum temperature in the Kgalagadi region increased by about 0.039°C per year (about 1.6°C over 40 years).
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Large-bodied animals face higher energy and heat-management costs in low-resource environments.
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As prey biomass declines with vegetation productivity and thermal load increases, the energetic cost of maintaining a large body mass in a low-resource environment increases.
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Some sexually selected traits reduce heat tolerance, survival, or performance under thermal stress.
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Thermal selection and sexual selection can act in opposite directions in shaping organismal phenotypes.
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Thermal stress generally suppresses testosterone and impairs male reproductive physiology.
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In males living in the Kalahari environment, elevated circulating testosterone indicates that a sexual-selection-related physiological axis remains active in the population despite thermal stressors.
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The reconstructed joint wavefunction image of entangled photons resembles a yin-yang symbol.
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A commonly circulated visualization of the joint wavefunction of two entangled photons resembles the yin-yang symbol.
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Wild tigers usually avoid humans and rarely treat them as prey.
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Wild tigers generally do not attack humans on sight because they are not interested in humans as prey.
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Israel announced a pilot to let West Bank Palestinians fly via Ramon Airport.
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Israel proposed a pilot program to allow Palestinians from the West Bank to fly abroad via Ramon Airport near Eilat on charter flights to Turkey, instead of traveling via the Allenby Bridge crossing to Jordan and flying from Amman.
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Musa Rahhal publicly opposed the Ramon Airport plan as apartheid policy.
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Musa Rahhal, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Transport and Communications, said that the Palestinian Authority opposed the Ramon Airport plan and described it as part of an apartheid policy and as pressure on Palestinians…
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Kinesiology tape can modestly improve short-term pain or function versus sham.
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Kinesiology tape improves patient recovery outcomes in some cases more than a placebo.
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Intermediate kitesurfing and windsurfing typically work in similar low-to-mid teen wind ranges.
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For an intermediate rider, kitesurfing generally requires less wind than windsurfing.
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said bots now exceed 50% of web traffic.
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The CEO of Cloudflare said that, for the first time ever, bots make up more than 50% of internet traffic.
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Trump’s documented social-media efforts involved regulation and private services, not global server control.
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Donald Trump proposed that the United States control the servers of every major social media platform and charge other countries a monthly "digital rent," with non-paying countries losing internet access.
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Available studies estimate AI-written LinkedIn posts at roughly 40–54%.
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Ninety-eight percent of LinkedIn posts are written by artificial intelligence.
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INE labor-force data show Spain added about 1.82 million employed people in 2023–2025.
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Spain created 1.6 million new jobs over the past three years.
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Jason Schreier did not say GTA VI was 90% certain for Nov. 19, 2026.
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Journalist Jason Schreier said that Grand Theft Auto VI is about 90% likely to release on November 19, 2026 with no further delays, after Rockstar Games opened pre-orders for the game.
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The European Commission issued preliminary DSA findings on TikTok’s default settings for minors’ accounts.
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The European Commission preliminarily found that TikTok fails to ensure that features of children’s and teenagers’ accounts meet the Digital Services Act (DSA) safety standards.
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White House guidance could steer much of the $200 billion R&D budget toward AI and individual scientists.
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The White House plans to redirect roughly $200 billion per year in U.S. federal research-and-development funding away from colleges and toward artificial intelligence initiatives and direct funding to individual scientists.
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