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Some 400 of these materials-recovery facilities dot the U.S., mostly on the East and West Coasts.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

That’s about double the 400 to 500 metric tons of gold they bought on average for each year from 2012 to 2021.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

After reviewing the histories of Boeing's 757, 767, 777, 787 and 737 Max fleets - more than 400 million flight hours - he found no case in which a switch failure shut down an engine.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

As part of that effort, approximately 400 participants from the Dallas area have undergone more than 1,200 brain scans at the Sammons BrainHealth Imaging Center.

From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 2026

To understand the answer to this paradox, we have to remember that, until 400 B.C., the frontier of Tsushima Strait separated not rich farmers from poor hunter-gatherers but poor farmers from rich hunter-gatherers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond