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Sure, al-Jasser died as part of what Human Rights Watch and the Middle East Democracy Center characterize as “an unprecedented surge in executions in 2025 without apparent due process.”

From Salon

Al-Astal refused being characterized as a traitor, saying family members, including his sister, were killed by Israeli bombs.

They had previously been characterized as entirely herbivorous, like gorillas, Goodall observed them hunting, killing and eating small mammals such as bush pigs and colobus monkeys, by any standard a complicated collaborative enterprise.

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But Goodall overcame her critics and produced work that Gould later characterized as “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.”

In short, Poast said, the president characterized the world as filled with “chaos and disorder” before his return to office, and “peaceful and prosperous” since his inauguration in January.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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