As more people prioritize long-term health and wellness, interior designers are seeing a surge in requests for designing separate sleep spaces.
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Michelle Mastro,
The Spruce,
7 Feb. 2026
Since so much work has already been completed, architects have been tasked with designing the best and least wasteful way of using the infrastructure that's already built.
The Valentine block stamping and printing workshop will be led by Nicki Fortunati-Warren, a multidisciplinary artist and bookbinder born in Italy and based in the Chicago area.
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Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
Other reasons include foreign countries potentially prohibiting entry access, due to another country stamping the passport, or to provide validation for travel to a restricted country.
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Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Jan. 2026
And commissioners spent all that time devising the College Sports Commission in an attempt to stabilize the NIL/portal market, then sit back and let one school in their conference steal yet another star QB half an hour before the portal closes.
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Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
The 40-year-old cooks up ways to make quarterbacks miserable in his sleep, devising schemes that are meant to lure as much as they are intended to confuse.
Harriet Walter has a nice scene as the Prime Minister hatching her own devious political plan.
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Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
28 Jan. 2026
According to the American Eagle Foundation, bald eagles normally lay one to three eggs per year, with eggs hatching anywhere between 34 and 40 days after incubation.
The reality is that the AI is concocting elaborate personas, faking as though humans are writing about human woes.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Both activities can be fairly ordinary hobbies—games of imagination not so different from crushing on a pop star or concocting stories about a film protagonist.
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