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Over the decades, around 30,000 North Koreans have made the risky journey across the border and through China to South Korea in search of a better life.
From BBC
The project began when Manasi Desai, an undergraduate student interested in cosmetic chemistry, approached her research advisor Joshua Lawrence in search of a project.
From Science Daily
Rather than surrender to those setbacks, Raye saddles up and sets off in search of happiness.
From BBC
In that story, Ryan Gosling's character travels to a distant star system in search of a way to save Earth, encountering alien life along the way, including a being named Rocky and fictional microorganisms like Astrophage and Taumoeba.
From Science Daily
These bears increasingly appear near campsites in search of easy meals.
From BBC
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