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2. Ban the Box - Wikipedia

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   Notably, San Francisco's Ban the Box law includes unique penalties for employer violations, including liquidated damages of $500 for each day an applicant or employee's San Francisco Ban the Box law rights were violated. [36] Claims under San Francisco's Ban the Box law must be filed within one year of the date of last violation. [36]

3. Gamma-ray burst - Wikipedia

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   Events with a duration of less than about two seconds are classified as short gamma-ray bursts. These account for about 30% of gamma-ray bursts, but until 2005, no afterglow had been successfully detected from any short event and little was known about their origins. [67]

4. One-child policy - Wikipedia

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   According to the UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, a quota of 20,000 abortions and sterilizations was set for Huaiji County, Guangdong in one year due to reported disregard of the one-child policy. According to the article local officials were being pressured into purchasing portable ultrasound devices to identify abortion candidates in remote ...

5. Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs - Wikipedia

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   Announced in 2011 China has banned imports and sales of certain incandescent light bulbs since October 2012 to encourage the use of alternative lighting sources such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), with a 5-year plan of phasing-out incandescent light bulbs over 100 watts starting 1 October 2012, and gradually extend the ban to those over 15 ...

6. Montreal Protocol - Wikipedia

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   The following year, a group of countries, including the United States, Canada, the Nordic Countries, and Switzerland, proposed a worldwide ban on "nonessential" uses of CFCs in spray cans. [ 35 ] Then, in 1985, British Antarctic Survey scientists Joe Farman , Brian Gardiner and Jon Shanklin published results of abnormally low ozone ...

7. List of Robot Chicken episodes - Wikipedia

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   Robot Chicken is an American stop-motion animated television series created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich that premiered on Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim on February 20, 2005, at 11:30 p.m. EST. The eleventh and most recent season premiered on September 7, 2021, at 12:00 a.m. EDT.