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    Olesya Mamchych

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    here he is        in his bed, so scared                 he can’t move

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    After midnight

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    Alexander Etkind and Johanna Gautier-Morin

    The modern world races forward with all its technological might, yet remains trapped in a reactive cycle of disasters. Necessary responses follow catastrophes rather than prevent them.

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