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  Rennell, Tony. “The Blitz 70 Years On: Carnage at the Café de Paris.” Daily Mail, April 9, 2010. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1264532/The-blitz-70-years-Carnage-Caf-Paris.html.

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  Rice, Doyle. “Yes, Chicago Will Be Colder Than Antarctica, Alaska and the North Pole on Wednesday.” USA Today, January 29, 2019. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/29/polar-vortex-2019-chicago-colder-than-antarctica-alaska-north-pole/2715979002/.

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  Ritchie, Earl J. “Exactly How Much Has the Earth Warmed? And Does It Matter?” Forbes, September 7, 2018. https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2018/09/07/exactly-how-much-has-the-earth-warmed-and-does-it-matter/#7d0059185c22.

  Ritchie, Hannah. “How Do We Reduce Antibiotic Resistance from Livestock?” Our World in Data, November 16, 2017. https://ourworldindata.org/antibiotic-resistance-from-livestock.

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  Rochat, Philippe. “Five Levels of Self-Awareness as They Unfold Early in Life.” Consciousness and Cognition 12 (2003): 717–31. http://www.psychology.emory.edu/cognition/rochat/Rochat5levels.pdf.

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. “Executive Order 9250, Providing for the Stabilizing of the National Economy.” October 3, 1942. Accessed February 2, 2019. https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/1942.html.

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  “Russia’s Rich Hiring Luxurious ‘Ambulance-Taxis’ to Beat Moscow’s Traffic Jams.” National Post, March 22, 2013. https://nationalpost.com/news/russias-rich-hiring-luxurious-ambulance-taxis-to-beat-moscows-traffic-jams.

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  Schein, Lisa. “More People Die from Suicide Than from Wars, Natural Disasters Combined.” VOA News, September 4, 2014. https://www.voanews.com/a/more-people-die-from-suicide-than-from-wars-natural-disasters-combined/2438749.html.

  Schiller, Ben. “Sorry, Buying a Prius Won’t Help with Climate Change.” Fast Company, January 31, 2014. https://www.fastcompany.com/3025359/sorry-buying-a-prius-wont-help-with-climate-change.

  Schleussner, Carl Friedrich, Tabea K. Lissner, Erich M. Fischer, Jan Wohland, Mahé Perrette, Antonius Golly, Joeri Rogelj, Katelin Childers, Jacob Schewe, Katja Frieler, Matthias Mengel, William Hare, and Michiel Schaeffer. “Differential Climate Impacts for Policy-Relevant Limits to Global Warming: The Case of 1.5°C and 2°C.” Earth System Dynamics 7, no. 21 (April 2016): 327–51. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-327-2016.

  Schwartz, Alexandra. “Esther Perel Lets Us Listen in on Couples’ Secrets.” New Yorker, May 31, 2017. https:
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  Schwartz, Jason. “MSNBC’s Surging Ratings Fuel Democratic Optimism.” Politico, April 11, 2018. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/11/msnbc-democrats-ratings-cnn-fox-513388.

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  Scranton, Roy. “Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene.” New York Times, November 10, 2013. https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/learning-how-to-die-in-the-anthropocene/.

  ________. “Raising My Child in a Doomed World.” New York Times, July 16, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/climate-change-parenting.html.

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  Shah, Bela. “Addicted to Selfies: I Take 200 Snaps a Day.” BBC News, February 27, 2018. https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-43197018.

  Shampo, Marc A., and Robert A. Kyle. “Jonas E. Salk—Discoverer of a Vaccine Against Poliomyelitis.” Mayo Clinic Proceedings 73, no. 12 (1998): 1176. https://doi.org/10.4065/73.12.1176.

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  Solly, Meilan. “How Did the ‘Great Dying’ Kill 96 Percent of Earth’s Ocean-Dwelling Creatures?” Smithsonian, December 11, 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-did-great-dying-kill-96-percent-earths-ocean-dwelling-creatures-180970992/.

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