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The first is that the fractures expanded in two distinct phases: long fractures aligned with the direction of ice flow appeared first, followed later by shorter fractures that cut across the flow.
From Science Daily
Near term, expect slightly shorter lines at your local Chipotle or Cava as the worker earning $70,000—or the newly laid-off Gen Zer—decides to make lunch at home.
Those windows are, in fact, getting shorter.
Flying a drone over the Caribbean is easier than over Ukraine, where electronic warfare has rendered many American-made drones ineffective or unusable, and the distances are shorter than in a hypothetical China-Taiwan conflict.
Shorter skirts were the sartorial symbol of the enormous strides women were making: The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
