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This weekend continued a trend of movies that court audiences of all ages and various genres, although horror has been a highlight leading into the fall season.
These entries, laying out a monthslong plot in excruciating detail, revealed multiple visits to Tops Friendly Markets to survey the store’s layout and analyze a Google graph feature for the location’s busiest times.
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Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
Change is inherently pressured, and building 'organizational muscles' in times of adversity helps make teams more resilient and ultimately antifragile.
In the tropics during Earth’s hottest epochs, such as spans when alligators lived near the poles 50 million years ago, temperatures inland that approach 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) would seem to have pushed up against the hard limits for life.
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Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
Music always resonated with me and certain songs define epochs from days gone by.
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