The World and Everything in It: March 12, 2025

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Good morning!

Congress faces down another funding deadline, and President Trump works to dismantle the Department of Education.

MALCOM: He's just going to deprive it of all of its powers and all of its people.

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s ahead on Washington Wednesday.

Also today, WORLD Tour.

And two freestyle bullfighters who see the rodeo ring as a mission field.

YANCEY: I saw those guys running around and protecting those guys, and it was like an overwhelming sense of purpose.

And WORLD Opinions contributor Daniel Darling says America's increased interest in the spiritual is a great opportunity for the church.

MAST: It’s Wednesday, March 12th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

MAST: It’s time for the news. Here’s Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Ukraine » The United States is restoring military aid to Ukraine after Ukrainian leaders said they’re ready for a ceasefire. The news came out of more than seven hours of meetings in Saudi Arabia.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday:

RUBIO:  Today we made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations to end this conflict in a way that's enduring and sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security.

The plan calls for a 30 day pause in fighting, which could then be extended.

White House National Security Advisor Michael Waltz said they also—his words, “got into substantive details on how this war is going to permanently end.”

WALTZ: …  what type of, uh, guarantees they're going to have for their long term security and prosperity. But also really looking at what it's going to take to finally end the horrific fighting.

President Trump said now it will be up to the Kremlin.

TRUMP:  Now we have to go to Russia and hope President, hopefully President Putin will agree to that also.

There was no immediate reaction from the Russian government. Special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is expected to travel to Moscow later this week.

House funding vote » At the Capitol, the House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September.

AUDIO: On this vote, the yeas are 217. They nays are 213. The bill is passed. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table.

One Republican voted “no,” and one Democrat voted “yes.” It was an otherwise straight party line vote.

In the Senate, the bill will need support from at least eight Democrats to get it to President Donald Trump’s desk. Congress has until Friday to pass a funding bill to avert a shutdown.

Trade war » A potential escalation in the mounting U.S.-Canada trade war was diffused on Tuesday.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford had announced a new surcharge on energy coming into the United States. The White House, in turn, announced it was doubling tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada. But President Trump last night said he had spoken to Ford.

TRUMP: He has called and he said he’s not going to do that.

And, in turn, the U.S. will not double the steel and aluminum tariffs after all.

Other U.S. tariffs announced last week on many Canadian and Mexican imports remain in place. Trade talks continue between Washington and the neighboring countries.

NTSB presser on jet/chopper crash » Roughly six weeks after a deadly mid-air collision in the nation’s capital, NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy is calling for changes in the skies over Reagan National Airport.

She said over the past several years there were 85 close calls in the area leading up to the January collision.

HOMENDY:  The existing separation distances between helicopter traffic operating on Route 4 and aircraft landing on Runway 33 are insufficient and pose an intolerable risk to aviation safety.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he'll adopt the NTSB's recommendations.

A U.S. Army helicopter collided with a commercial jet on January 29th near Reagan National Airport, killing 67 people.

Israel latest » Israel is sounding the alarm about what it says is ethnic cleansing taking place right now in Syria.

Late last year, insurgents from the Islamist group HTS overthrew Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

Israel Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel says HTS represents a new jihadist threat along Israel's border.

HASKEL: When we say we are concerned about the security on the Syrian border, it means that we are concerned about those jihadist monsters committing a massacre, an ethnic cleansing of Jews and Druze within our borders.

Hundreds of civilians were killed over the weekend amid clashes in Syria's ongoing civil war.

I’m Kent Covington.

Still ahead: Congress is up against another funding deadline. We’ll have a look at that on Washington Wednesday. Plus, World Tour.

This is The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: It’s Wednesday the 12th of March.

This is WORLD Radio and we’re so glad you’ve joined us today! Good morning, I’m Lindsay Mast.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Time now for Washington Wednesday. Today, expelling the Department of Education. But first, more details on the House plan to avoid a government shutdown.

WORLD’s Leo Briceno reports.

LEO BRICENO, REPORTER: Tuesday’s vote on extending government funding into September is not ideal for fiscal hawks that want to see spending trimmed.

But it gives Republicans room to focus on fiscal year 2026—and, more importantly, Trump’s legislative agenda.

CHIP ROY: I think this is a responsible step forward.

That’s Chip Roy of Texas, a long-time critic of government spending extensions speaking in a Rules Committee hearing on Monday.

CHIP ROY: Look, I’ve got some on my more moderate flank and conservative flank that have concerns. A lot of people have said ‘we’re moving a full-year funding through a continuing resolution. That’s not how we should do business.’ I would agree. That’s not, we would like to have 12 appropriations bills, I think this is a big step forward and we should now focus on FY26.

The bill does contain a few changes to spending levels. Among hundreds of other tweaks, budgets for the wildfire suppression operations reserve and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are marked to go up by several hundred million dollars each. The bill also contains a modest 7 billion dollars in spending cuts. That includes seasonal items like election security grants, and an 80 million cut from the Afghanistan security forces fund.

When asked about his expectations for next year, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole of Oklahoma said that he believes Congress will continue the work it started last year, passing single issue appropriations bills.

TOM COLE: The Senate didn’t move a single one. We got five—about seventy percent of spending.

Cole says another big priority this year will be writing recommendations from the Department of Government Efficiency into law.

TOM COLE: They’re working on trying to codify the DOGE savings and, you know, having these discussions.

That could happen through next year’s spending bills, but it could also come through a rescission package. That doesn’t have to do with economic recessions it’s a bill that would rescind or cancel spending that Congress previously approved. It’s a tool the Nixon administration used to slash foreign aid. I spoke with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana in the Capitol Basement.

STEVE SCALISE: Obviously, DOGE is identifying a whole lot of fraud, waste, and abuse in government. It's a long time coming to root out a lot of that fraud. Ultimately that’s compiled will be put in a rescission package… I think the American people want those savings locked in.

For now, the spending bill now heads to the Senate, where it must receive support from all Republicans and at least seven Democrats before President Trump can sign it.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Leo Briceno in Washington, D.C

MAST: Republicans in Washington have called for dismantling the Department of Education since President Jimmy Carter established it in 1979. About two years later, the new president, Ronald Reagan, called it a big waste of money.

REAGAN: The budget plan I submitted to you on February 8th will realize major savings by dismantling the departments of energy and education and by eliminating ineffective subsidies for business.

EICHER: Reagan did not have the support in Congress he needed to pass that plan. And since then, the department has ballooned, boasting a budget of more than 100 billion dollars. Much of that goes to student loans, but it also funds an array of discretionary education programs.

MAST: President Trump also promised to close down the education department during his first term, and made the promise again coming into his second. So how’s that coming along? WORLD’s Washington Reporter Carolina Lumetta has that story.

CAROLINA LUMETTA: President Donald Trump has given Education Secretary Linda McMahon a unique directive: shut down her own department.

TRUMP: Linda, I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job.

That’s not a throwaway line. In McMahon’s first interview since being confirmed, she told Fox News that Trump means business:

MCMAHON: He has made crystal clear since the time he was running for president that this is his intent. He wants to make sure that education is back at the state level where it belongs.

Back in 1976, Jimmy Carter made a campaign promise to the nation’s largest teachers union: he would create a cabinet level position for education. But Congress needed some convincing before it passed a law to codify the department in 1979. So Carter gave the Education Department a specific mandate, to enforce non-discrimination laws that authorize financial aid for low income students and equal access to education for students with special needs. Carter nominated 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Shirley Mount Hufstedler to be the department’s first secretary, heard here in a 2007 interview on C-SPAN.

MOUNT HUFSTEDLER: There were those that didn't want a department of education created at all, because the primary responsibility for education is given to the states, not to the federal government. But the federal government had numerous programs involving education, not the least of which is the student loan program.

That student loan program has become a $1.6 trillion dollar portfolio.

The Department of Education has a yearly budget of roughly $80 billion, but it often exceeds that in discretionary spending. Three quarters of that goes to research and loan servicing, while about one quarter goes to help states fund their education programs.

The Department of Education does not determine curriculum or hire teachers, but federal funding accounts for roughly 11 percent of each state’s education budget, though it varies across the country. States with high rural populations, such as Alaska and North Dakota, receive the largest shares. Here’s McMahon again.

MCMAHON: I think there is definitely a role for education to make sure that as we move education back to the states that we are providing the tools for the governors, for the teachers, that we can provide them with research to show best practices.

But the process of abolishing it is complicated. Since Congress passed a law authorizing the department, President Trump may not simply sign it away. So he needs to convince 60 senators to approve his plan. Or he may try something simpler.

MALCOLM: President Trump is going to test this. He's just going to deprive it of all of its powers and all of its people.

John Malcolm is the vice president of the institute for constitutional government at the Heritage Foundation.

MALCOLM: There will be a building there or maybe he'll sell the building and lease it back. But there'll be nobody doing anything in the Department of Education, he'll take all of the funds that the Department of Education gets, and he's going to try to give that all to the states and return all of this power to the states.

During her confirmation hearing last month, McMahon suggested the Treasury or Commerce Department could take over student loans. She promised that responsibility for programs like disability access to education would continue, but under other departments, like health and human services. But this concerns teachers, like Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education Foundation.

BURRIS: There are guardrails that are put in place by the department as to how that money is to be distributed to schools with lots of protections so districts cannot willy-nilly use those funds as they would like to. It's questionable as to whether any of those guardrails would exist.

Switching programs to other departments might also disrupt services. Reed Scott-Schwalbach is president of the Oregon Education Association. She attended McMahon’s confirmation hearing in February.

SCOTT-SCHWALBACH: Having another department that does not work with students, that doesn't understand education, try to administer grants and then be able to effectively assess if those grants are being used, if the federal dollars are being actually officially used, that is not going to be done better by another department.

Scott-Schwalbach says teachers also rely on Department of education testing and research, especially the National Assessment of Educational Progress test, often called the nation’s report card. While each state determines its own testing standards, they use the NAEP results to inform those standards.

SCOTT SCHWALBACH: We can't expect 50 states to do quality research and then to come together magically and say now let's all share our research and see what's working in our state and compare it to your state, and it will come up with some really great ways that we can make sure we’re being effective across all of our state borders.

If the Education Department’s operations simply shift to other departments, it’s likely that states and schools won’t see an immediate change. Martin West is a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In a recent episode of the Harvard EdCast podcast, he outlined the push and pull between federal oversight and states rights.

WEST: Ultimately I think the engines of improvement in American education need to be the states and school districts. With the federal government playing a supportive role.

As of Tuesday, Trump had not signed an executive order on the department’s fate. But last week in the Oval Office, he reiterated that it could be on the chopping block.

TRUMP: We want the education to be given by the states. It'll be much better. it'll be- it'll move us to the top of the list from the bottom of the list and actually save us money

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Carolina Lumetta in Washington.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: WORLD Tour with our reporter in Africa, Onize Oduah.

AUDIO: [Protesters chanting]

ONIZE ODUAH: Syria unrest — Today’s World Tour begins in Syria, where violence over the weekend left more than a thousand people dead.

Clashes erupted in the coastal region last week between the Sunni Muslim Syrian security forces and loyalists of the ousted former President Bashar Assad, many of them members of the minority Alawite sect.

Fighting and revenge killings grew since then, stoking sectarian violence. The victims also included Christians.

The violence is the worst since the overthrow of Assad’s government in December.

Nazem Naji is a 70-year-old resident in Syria’s capital of Damascus.

NAJI: [ARABIC] We should join together and save this country and this victory that happened. We reached something big and we should maintain it and love each other. This country is for everyone.

He called for people to work together to save the country.

Meanwhile, Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has pledged to respond to the violence.

AL-SHARAA: [ARABIC] No one will be above the law and anyone whose hands are stained with the blood of Syrians will face justice sooner rather than later.

He says those responsible will face justice.

Australia anti-Semitic plot — Next to Australia, where authorities have confirmed that a suspected plot to target a synagogue with explosives was not what it appeared.

Authorities in January found a caravan loaded with explosives with the address of a synagogue in Sydney.

But on Monday, police said it was a diversion by an organized crime network.

David Hudson is the New South Wales deputy police commissioner.

HUDSON: It was about causing chaos within the community, causing threat, causing angst, diverting police resources away from their day jobs, to have them focus on matters that would allow them to get up to or engage in other criminal activity.

Police are yet to make any arrests. But the country has seen a surge in anti-Semitic attacks since Hamas invaded Israel in October 2023. The attacks mostly target synagogues, schools, and private property.

AUDIO: [Pro-life protesters]

Poland abortion center — In Poland, pro-life demonstrators protested the opening of the country’s first stationary abortion center in the city of Warsaw.

The new center opened right across the city’s parliament building.

Assisting in an abortion is illegal in Poland and punishable by up to three years in jail, but women also bypass any legal responsibility if they carry out the abortions themselves.

Justyna Wydrzynska—one of the center’s founders—said women can order pills in advance and come into the center to have an abortion.

AUDIO: [Protesters, crying baby sound]

Outside the building, protesters prayed together and also played audio of a crying baby.

Laws in the majority Catholic nation shield babies from abortion—except in cases of rape, incest, or if the pregnancy endangers the mother’s health or life.

AUDIO: [Protesters chanting]

Romania protests — We close today in southeast Europe where a far-right independent candidate in Romania is challenging his exclusion from an upcoming presidential poll.

Romania’s central electoral bureau on Sunday rejected Calin Georgescu’s candidacy, saying it failed to meet the conditions of legality, and also breached the obligations to defend democracy.

Georgescu claimed an unexpected victory during the first round of voting back in November. But the constitutional court annulled the vote over claims of Russian interference.

He is leading in polls ahead of the May re-run election.

This protester joined others to support Georgescu in the capital of Bucharest.

PROTESTER: [ROMANIAN] It's no longer about who is running, but about democracy, which has been trampled on from all sides. Somehow, people are being shown directly in their faces that we live in a great dictatorship. I mean, where are the human rights?

She says the protest is now about a fight for democracy, adding that Georgescu’s exclusion shows that they now live in a dictatorship.

That’s it for this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Oduah in Abuja, Nigeria.

EICHER: WORLD has more reporting on Syria … including the stories of Christians there affected by the fighting. We have a link to the story in today’s transcript.

NICK EICHER, HOST: A bucktoothed, 27-year-old llama isn’t kicking back in retirement—he still clocks in every day.

Whitetop as he’s known has just been crowned the world’s oldest llama in captivity.

But he’s too busy comforting sick kids at Victory Junction to let that slow him down.

AUDIO: He can be kind of intimidating at first, but once they come over to him, they just realize how sweet he is.

Victory Junction is a camp in North Carolina founded by the Petty family, maybe the most well-known name in NASCAR.

For his part, Whitetop is known for his charm.

AUDIO: He really does love a selfie moment. Like if you try to take a picture of him from the side, he will scoot in there … it’s like he’s cheesing.

Old Whitetop just proves that when it comes to being a great llama, there’s no drama. And you know what else there isn’t?

AUDIO: Typically llamas only spit when they are scared. And he just loves his job so much that he doesn’t do it.

Doesn’t spit. So there you have it, too legit to spit.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Wednesday, March 12th.

Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Lindsay Mast.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: Bullfighting.

It’s a centuries-old tradition that pits man against beast in a colorful and often deadly and controversial dance.

MAST: Several nations still allow traditional bullfighting with matadors and their swords. But the sport’s popularity has declined since the 1980s, over animal-welfare concerns around the world.

EICHER: Here in the U.S. cowboys have changed methods and elevated the sport.

REICHARD: WORLD’s Todd Vician has our story.

ANNOUNCER: Alright, so slowly and surely we’re going to get this animal up. Ballard is ready…

BALLARD: Imagine standing on the train tracks and having a train, one of them old coal trains. I mean rolling steam right at you…

TODD VICIAN: That’s the feeling Luke Ballard has the moment the gate swings open and a bull charges toward him.

ANNOUNCER: It’s not something where you agitate the animal. It’s the way they are born and bred. Generations of ferociousness comes alive today!

BALLARD: He's got one one mission, it’s to cause harm to whatever stands in his way. And so you step up and challenge that and it’s quite a dance when you do it right.

Ballard is a professional freestyle bullfighter. He earns a living trying to stay as close as he can to an unpredictable, 1,500-pound bull that charges anything that moves.

BALLARD: Obviously it's an adrenaline rush, but calling for one of those suckers is one of the best feelings and sometimes some of the worst feelings you'll ever have in your life.

10 bullfighters competed for top score recently on the final day of the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo. Ballard was one of them. He’s the 2023 world champion, having successfully done a backflip over a charging bull in that competition. Now he’s trying to move back to the top and stay healthy, while witnessing for Christ.

BALLARD: When you get in that arena, there is definitely a feeling that comes over you, like, I could die, you know. So having faith that the Lord will protect me and, yeah, be with every step that I make and every move that I make is one of the reasons I can even step in there in the first place.

Today’s bullfighters carry on the Spanish tradition of matadors without the capes and swords. They still dress colorfully, and many paint their faces like rodeo clowns. Most also wear protective vests under their costumes that absorb the brunt of the force when they’re hooked by a charging bull. But injuries are still common.

YANCEY: I had an MCL tear last year. Had to have surgery on it. Came back in July.

Luke Yancey is a bullfighter from Pelahatchie, Mississippi. At 29, he’s one of the older bullfighters. He arrived at the rodeo with Ballard and they often use their time together to encourage and mentor each other about the difficulties that come with a life on the road. His dad was a professional rodeo announcer, and Yancey grew up in and around arenas. He tried college and baseball before settling on fighting bulls, but he thanks God for guiding his path to the arena.

YANCEY: So I kind of struggled, to be honest, after college, not really having a purpose for my life, or feeling like I didn't. So I just started praying a lot, and it took about two and a half years to really see the big picture. And the Lord showed me the PBR one day and I saw those guys running around and protecting those guys, and it was like an overwhelming sense of purpose.

Bullfighters vie for 100 points each round, with 50 of those points coming from the bull’s aggressiveness.

ANNOUNCER: Warning, the fighting bulls preparing to enter this arena are extremely dangerous…

They are judged on their willingness to expose themselves to risk and their style. Touching the bull’s face and jumping over the charging beast earn high scores and cheers from the crowd.

ANNOUNCER: Whoa, he’s got ‘em!

Friends Yancey and Ballard were pitted against each other this time. Yancey went first.

ANNOUNCER: Oh, just when you think you've got him, [bell sounds] the predator becomes the prey…

A few minutes later, Ballard’s turn.

ANNOUNCER: Look, he stays in the center of the pen here. Don't weaken, don't weaken, get out there, you’re good. Fans, a little encouragement goes a long way [Bell sounds]

The hottest bulls have names, and Ballard won his world championship fighting “Habanero.” The victory gave him a bigger stage to share his faith, and he considers his vocation part of God’s mandate in Genesis.

BALLARD: When you're having a good fight, I mean, you feel like you can't move. Make a wrong move, those bulls just slide past you. You feel like you're in total control of those animals, which God calls us. He said, ‘Man will have total control over all the all the beasts and everything of the world.’”

Ballard bested his friend Yancey in the first round.

BALLARD: Things can change in an instant.

But in the championship round, he was hooked by the bull.

ANNOUNCER: Throws that first fake. This looks good. You see him slow down, breaks around the corner. He just catches the leg right there.”

He tried to continue fighting but couldn’t put any weight on his leg, ending his pursuit of the $10,000 prize.

But he and Yancey left the arena hopeful.

BALLARD: I feel like in my life, God has called me to be a missionary. And sometimes people think missionary as in going overseas, going to some place to minister to these people. But I think God has really put me in the western industry specifically to be a missionary, to be a light. Whenever you think of the Western industry and cowboys, it's pretty rough and tough and so, yeah, being a change, being a light to people who are broken. That's kind of what I feel like God calls me to do.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Todd Vician in San Antonio, Texas.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Wednesday, March 12th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Up next, WORLD commentator Daniel Darling believes now is the time for bolder evangelism. A recent survey of American belief suggests the fields may be ripe.

DANIEL DARLING: Has the rise in secularism waned? That’s one conclusion to draw from the findings of the annual Pew survey. It gathered the religious views of over 35,000 people from across the country. Sixty-two percent of Americans identify as Christians. This number is consistent with surveys going back to 2019, when the precipitous decline in Christianity began to stabilize.

These findings seem consistent with anecdotal evidence. High-profile conversions and new conversations about religion in popular media formats suggest a new interest in the transcendent and a rejection of secularism by many. Nobody should mistake these numbers for revival, but followers of Christ can find slivers of hope in a society questioning “The Secular Age.” Perhaps a world riven by war, natural disaster, and political upheaval has caused people to confront their own mortality and seek the divine.

There is opportunity here for the church, especially among younger people where Christianity is still lagging significantly behind older generations. While disavowing religion, many describe themselves as spiritual. Eight in ten Americans believe humans have souls, while more than three quarters believe in a universal God or spirit. Like Paul on Mars Hill in Acts chapter 17, Christians can boldly and beautifully speak of the “Lord of Heaven and Earth” to those who “seek him and reach out for him.”

The church should not hesitate to embrace our mission field. In the book of Romans, Paul reminds us: “And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news." The world around us is put off by the false promises of secularism. It is dissatisfied with the pleasures of modernity. It is awakening to the lies of the sexual revolution. Now is the time for Christians to joyfully proclaim that there is a better way to orient our lives. We must show that a relationship with God through his Son is the gateway to fulfillment and true spirituality, not the cheap substitutes on offer.

This survey might also help dispel persistent myths that often rise in opposition to faithful Christian life and practice. While contextualization is important for our witness, a Christianity stripped of its symbols and distinctives is off-putting to those who seek alternatives to the world’s false ideologies.

Another shattered myth is that conservative political ideologies drive away those seeking God. In reality, it is progressivism that has both emptied out the mainline churches and correlates heavily with a decline in Christianity and religiosity overall. This doesn’t mean conservative believers should avoid prudence in politics, but it cuts against the perennial accusation that conservative voting patterns are responsible for religious indifference. It is left-wing Christianity that ends up keeping the political ideology but losing the gospel.

For the people of God, our response to the findings of this survey should be to double down on both faithfulness to our local churches and faithfulness in our families. Given that the next generation seems less Christian than our own, we should not hesitate in our commitment to evangelizing our children. We ought to take them to church weekly. We must teach them the key doctrines of the Christian faith. This and other surveys demonstrate a link between family structure and Christian faith. The decline of marriage results in a decline of faith, generationally.

And we should not rest from the task of evangelism. The bloody cross and triumphant resurrection of our Lord is still, as it has always been, both foolishness to and the hope for a lost and dying world. In a world increasingly rejecting secularism, we must not hesitate to proclaim this good news.

I’m Daniel Darling.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow, we’ll hear from the brother of an Israeli hostage just released, about how he’s coming to terms with his captivity. And, the ongoing debate over unpaid medical bills and their effect on credit reports. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

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