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Because of this warmth in the Southwest, this also creates a drier than usual season, with precipitation expected to be 50-74% lower than usual, making out-of-season wildfires possible, according to AccuWeather.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
9 Oct. 2025 -
Hoping to better understand the demand for smutty scares, Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville (Olivia Williams), spend an interminable evening at the theater surrounded by people throwing popcorn and making out while the topless woman onscreen is tortured and killed in a masked man’s dungeon.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
4 Oct. 2025
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Mokyr took half the award, for identifying the mechanism, while Aghion and Howitt shared the other half, for creating the mathematical model for how products enter the market and drive older ones out.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Investigators leading vaccine and pharmaceutical trials for type 1 diabetes are also using genetic tests to maximize efficiency and funding by identifying participants who are most likely at risk for the disease.—
Rachel Nuwer,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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With the strong onshore winds picking up as the storm begins tracking north, coastal flooding will also exacerbate any flooding that occurs from heavy rainfall.—
Kyle Reiman,
ABC News,
11 Oct. 2025
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Shop like a star by picking up styles similar to those worn by Jennifer Garner, Emma Roberts, Natalie Portman, and Olivia Wilde.—
Averi Baudler,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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