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The coverage will alternate between leagues each year and gives Turner the most postseason games on a network.

TURNER SPORTS EXPANDS ITS DEAL WITH MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL THROUGH 2028RADMARYASEPTEMBER 24, 2020FORTUNE

DNA and RNA strands are composed of alternating phosphate and sugar molecules, but sugars “are profoundly unstable in hot spring environments,” says David Des Marais, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center.

LIFE ON EARTH MAY HAVE BEGUN IN HOSTILE HOT SPRINGSJACK J. LEESEPTEMBER 24, 2020SCIENCE NEWS

When Epic started offering alternate Fortnite payment methods that avoided Apple’s fee-taking, for instance, Apple blocked the app.

WHY APPLE LET WORDPRESS WALK BUT CONTINUES TO FIGHT FORTNITE’S EPIC GAMESRHHACKETTFORTUNEAUGUST 25, 2020FORTUNE

In one macabre scene, one of Edison’s employees goes so far as to publicly electrocute a dog with alternating current.

ETHAN HAWKE STARS IN ‘TESLA,’ A QUIRKY BIOPIC ABOUT THE ICONIC INVENTORMARIA TEMMINGAUGUST 19, 2020SCIENCE NEWS

So that means in an alternate universe without any southpaw advantage, about 36 percent of current LHPs would be good enough to pitch in the major leagues.

WHAT REALLY GIVES LEFT-HANDED PITCHERS THEIR EDGE?GUY MOLYNEUXAUGUST 17, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT

Indeed, this was a fun and challenging foray into an alternate set of operations.

ARE YOU HIP ENOUGH TO BE SQUARE?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSAUGUST 14, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT

Those two teams alternated going into the office every other week.

‘A NEW WAY OF WORKING’: PUBLISHERS’ TEST KITCHENS RETURN TO STUDIOS WITH NEW SAFETY PROCEDURES IN THE MIXKAYLEIGH BARBERAUGUST 14, 2020DIGIDAY

A person can only seek alternate value in life when afforded the time to do so.

THE GLOBAL WORK CRISIS: AUTOMATION, THE CASE AGAINST JOBS, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT ITPETER XINGAUGUST 6, 2020SINGULARITY HUB

For middle and high schools, staff recommended a hybrid learning model with students divided into two cohorts who alternate between two on-campus days and three distance learning days each week.

NORTH COUNTY REPORT: SCHOOL REOPENING TENSIONS ARE HIGH IN OCEANSIDEKAYLA JIMENEZJULY 22, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO

Lower still was a series of alternating layers of coarse and fine materials.

ROVER FINDS ‘LAYER CAKE’ BELOW GROUND ON MOON’S FARSIDELISA GROSSMANMARCH 25, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS

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