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Soft power is a foreign-policy tool to get what a country wants without using force.
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Tearing down abandoned homes has proven benefits, such as reducing crime and toxic materials, but it doesn’t pay for itself.
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A death row inmate in South Carolina chose firing squad over lethal injection and the electric chair.