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The dubious wisdom of relying on heroic assumptions about people renovating their homes and buying new cars to cut emissions has been cruelly exposed. The latest domino to fall is the ludicrous ...

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Maya Angela Lagtapon Simms, Class of 2024, is among the thousands of students who, at some point during their Syracuse University careers, occupy apartment-style housing on South Campus. “Some of the ...

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