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		<title><![CDATA[How the humpback whale made a massive comeback in the Salish Sea]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE MOLLY B, on the Salish Sea — They are big. They are
beautiful. And they are back.

The return of the humpback whale to greater numbers than observed in
decades is part of a larger revival of marine mammals in the Salish Sea.
It is an ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[This Day in History, May 14]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 14th, 1607, Jamestown, VA was settled as an English colony.
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		<title><![CDATA[Heavier storms and longer dry spells are drying California and the West]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rainfall across much of California and the West has become more
clustered in heavier storms, with longer dry spells in between.

The net effect is a drying out, researchers found in a new study. It
isn’t just the western United States; the same ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Weather takes out SpaceX launch for 2nd day; sets up Friday retry that could bring sonic booms]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poor weather conditions Wednesday forced another scrub of a launch
attempt by SpaceX on its latest resupply run for NASA to International
Space Station, which will have to wait until at least Friday for a
backup attempt that could bring a sonic ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/technews/s-4138685</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[United Launch Alliance to prep future Vulcan launch for Amazon despite rocket investigation]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[United Launch Alliance is running short on usable hardware this year,
having to rely on its dwindling supply of Atlas V rockets while it
continues an investigation into what went wrong on the last launch of
its successor rocket Vulcan.

Its next ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "blackguard"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[blackguard \BLAG-uhrd\ (noun) - 1 : A rude or unscrupulous person; a scoundrel. 2 : A person who uses foul or abusive language.

(adjective) - 1 : Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, "blackguard language."

(transitive verb) - 1 : To...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-943587</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hat Trick]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Situation:
There is an island with 10 inhabitants. One day a monster comes and says that he intends to eat every one of them but will give them a chance to survive in the following way:

In the morning, the monster will line up all the people ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft spent over $100 billion on OpenAI partnership]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Corp. has spent more than $100 billion on its partnership
with OpenAI, a sum that underscores the significance of the software
maker’s role in the AI company’s growth.

That figure includes Microsoft’s original investments in ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why 'House of David' director thinks AI can save Hollywood jobs]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1926, director Cecil B. DeMille hired hundreds of workers to build
a set of Jerusalem inside the DeMille Studios in Culver City for the
classic silent film "The King of Kings."

A century later, Jon Erwin filmed his biblical epic 'The Old ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Investors bet on San Diego's new military-industrial complex, including $1.5B on Shield AI]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The day before Valentine’s Day, rumors surfaced about a San Diego
company’s plans to raise a billion dollars.

Executives at the company didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Industry insiders wouldn’t speak on record about the raise —...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Orphaned Monrovia bear cubs on path back to wild after state euthanized their mom]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — When state wildlife officials euthanized
"Blondie" the bear over the objections of local elected
leaders in March, it was unclear if her two orphaned bear cubs would
ever be able to live in the wild again.

The tiny furry creatures...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/technews/s-4136325</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Detroit’s water affordability crisis is tied to the uneven distribution of stormwater management costs – a fraught history explains why]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beginning in July 2026, Detroiters will be paying higher water and sewer
bills.

That’s because The Great Lakes Water Authority, or GLWA, voted
unanimously on Feb. 25, 2026, to increase water rates by 5.8% and sewer
rates by 4.26% for its ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/technews/s-4134122</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[Short Words Have Their Ups and Downs]]></title>
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"I've always found it interesting," writes Bob Fliegel of St. Augustine,
Fla., "that the shortest and simplest words have the most elusive and
counterintuitive etymologies. Why?"

The key factor is time. Because most of these basic words first ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/thewordguy/s-4100719</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jim Rossman: Don’t make a scammer’s life easier]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I received a question about spam emails, “For some time, I am getting emails showing an invoice for services about to be charged to my credit card. Other than ignoring them, do you have any suggestions on how to handle these messages? ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gadgets: Stay ahead of car trouble]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[How annoying is it to get in your vehicle and your check engine light or other alerts suddenly flash in your face? The BlueDriver Pro Scan tool will tell you almost instantly what the problem is, and potentially keep you ahead of a breakdown. This...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech review: Gift ideas for grads]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are in the midst of graduation season, and I’ve been testing
some gadgets that would make for great graduation gifts.

Cash is a traditional gift for graduates, but I know a lot of people
who like their gift to be a bit more personal.

Fender...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/technews/s-4097259</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[As drought worsens, Western states brace for wildfires, water shortages]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Rockies to the Cascades to the Sierra Nevada, mountainsides
across the West are sparsely covered by the snow that usually blankets
the high country well into the summer.

That snowpack is like a savings account that the West draws on when...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/technews/s-4097257</link>
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    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Today's Word "indigence"]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[indigence \IN-dih-juhn(t)s\ (noun) - A state of extreme poverty or destitution.

"Such was the band's indigence that all they could afford was 'loser's lunch', a meal which consisted of baloney on hand, as they could not afford even bread."

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/vocabulary/s-943092</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Petals Around the Rose]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[You roll five dice. The computer calculates the score. Your job is to find out what the computer based the score on.

If you roll 5, 4, 6, 3, and 5, the score is 10.

If you roll 1, 3, 3, 4, and 2, the score is 4.

If you roll 1, 6, 2, 6, and 4,...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/brainteasers/s-58552</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This Day in History, May 13]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 13th, 1950, the first all-time Formula One Grand Prix took place.
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/quotes/s-49576</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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