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Is something paranormal afoot or is the rupture in Montessori’s mind?

Meanwhile, a growing rupture with Putin has triggered a public exchange of veiled threats over each country’s nuclear arsenal.

The rupture has complicated what looked like a workable plan less than two months ago, though investors think a rate cut at the Fed’s next meeting is still more likely than not.

The energy that surges from a ruptured fault shakes the earth from crust to core.

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The 1963 rupture of a city dam, releasing a deluge that destroyed 260 homes and killed six in the community below, set in motion a slow-moving campaign to extract a public benefit from the disaster.

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