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Others contended that the problem wasn’t a woman leading a prayer—it was that she did it in public, rather than at home among other women.

Retaining walls and temporary shoring have to contend with groundwater challenges, including caissons, which are watertight chambers sunk into the earth to hold back soil during construction.

From lightning strikes to rogue tree limbs, windstorms to squirrels, grid operators contend with so many threats to their infrastructure on a day by day basis.