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Security officers struggled to control the swelling crowd outside the casualty unit, where dozens of people pressed against barricades for information.

To his swelling audience, it didn’t seem to matter whether the stock market rose or fell; Mike Burry found places to invest money shrewdly.

Glacier melt from the Alps is swelling river levels in the Netherlands, storms and droughts are more frequent, and rising seas are increasing salination, he explained.

NEW YORK—The capacious Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden in Astoria, Queens, had been swelling for hours with chanting—and drinking—young socialists.

“Where is our room to influence what feels like going against a swelling tide? Where could we have intervened? How could we have stopped something?”