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shared by criscimagnael on 01 Jun 22 - No Cached

A navy shirt that read, “Wilmington Friends Quakers” was just right for Ms. Beatty’s needs on a recent thrifting trip to Urban Jungle, a large store with a little yellow submarine sign out front in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. But she needed more than just one perfect T-shirt.
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While upcycling has become a more common practice in fashion in recent years, it’s less common to see a brand entirely devoted to it.
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The reconstructed look will be priced around $125, a steep premium, but a price that Ms. Beatty thinks is fair, given all that goes into making the garments: sourcing and cleaning the shirts, determining the look (matching shirts based on color tone, size and feel), cutting and sewing the garment.
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“It’s symbolic — all of these thoughts and choices have gone into that piece,” she said. “It’s making fashion out of something that’s already existed. It’s saying there’s value in something that’s been discarded.”
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“It’s not like we use every ounce of fabric. There are fabrics that we have to sell back off. But in every choice that we make, we just try.”
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shared by criscimagnael on 25 Mar 22 - No Cached

Under Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s arsenal has grown rapidly, especially its nuclear program and missile fleet. The expansion of the arsenal has become a growing threat to the United States and allies in the region.
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North Korea has used nuclear weapons as its biggest bargaining tool, building more powerful ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. The country conducted six increasingly sophisticated underground nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017. The last four of them happened under Mr. Kim.
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Mr. Kim has also said that his country plans to build a nuclear-powered submarine to deliver nuclear weapons to its adversaries more stealthily.
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Whether North Korea has mastered the technology needed to send an intercontinental nuclear warhead into space and then guide it back through the earth’s atmosphere to its target is still unclear.
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North Korea’s short-range ballistic missile program has made big advances.
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When North Korea resumed missile tests in 2019 following the collapse of the Kim-Trump talks, the tests featured three new missiles that used solid fuel, military experts said.
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The North has also stockpiled thousands of tons of chemical and biological weapons agents that it can deliver with its missiles.
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