• Sophie Cunningham sparked a revolt — and the WNBA bullies are floundering

    

   

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• The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place.
• You each hold a special power. The power to determine what America means.  
• The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.  
• Those ideals upon which our nation was built — they are strong enough to endure any authoritarian regime, but only if we reach for them. Ours is a nation working each day towards the perfection in which it was conceived. A nation striving each day to better itself. Therein lies the work of America — the striving, the bettering, the reaching towards perfection.  

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• robots do not play football the way people do, and the turf has to be non-slip and antistatic.
• A total of 666 teams and 2,056 robots from 16 countries across six continents are competing,

• “California, Arizona, and Nevada have shown that states can compromise, make difficult decisions, and reduce water use when the river demands it,” JB Hamby, California’s Colorado River Commissioner, said in a statement. “But three states cannot carry the responsibility of all seven. California is prepared to discuss greater flexibility for the Upper Basin than the Colorado River Compact otherwise affords. That flexibility must be matched by robust action from Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico to bring demand in line with what the river can supply and maintain sustainable deliveries to the Lower Basin and Mexico.”
• The Colorado River is a vital source of drinking water for 40 million people in the seven states, Mexico and for 30 Native American tribes, and it provides water for agriculture and hydroelectricity.
• The Colorado River is a vital source of drinking water for 40 million people in the seven states, Mexico and for 30 Native American tribes, and it provides water for agriculture and hydroelectricity.
• Amid a 25-year megadrought, the river’s flows have decreased by more than 20% since 2000. 
• Amid a 25-year megadrought, the river’s flows have decreased by more than 20% since 2000. 
• The cuts and conservation efforts in the Lower Basin are aimed at stabilizing water levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the system’s two key reservoirs, whose water levels fell last month to their lowest point since 1957. 

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