Dorian Gray, the Victorian era’s proto-Clavicular, literally exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty—a move that the looksmaxxing community would seem to endorse wholeheartedly.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2026
That’s the idea behind scentscaping — a growing approach to home fragrance that swaps synthetic plug-ins and aerosol sprays for natural, intentional scent.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Kansas City Star,
9 June 2026
The second step introduces a two-carbon form of amine (a common ingredient in a wide array of products) and a copper catalyst, which swaps amine groups in where the bromine atoms were.
The fundraising comes as SpaceX negotiates to pay razor-thin fees to the Wall Street firms, though banks are still likely to rake in about $500 million.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
What Senate Bill 3496 would create isn’t a one-time savings event but a durable, compounding mechanism for relief, a pipeline that expands every year as Medicare negotiates more drugs and Illinois extends those savings to everyone, not just seniors.
The Alaska Permanent Fund, which distributes oil revenues annually to state residents and is the closest domestic model, operates at the state level with a straightforward asset base.
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Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
The city typically mails out more than 22,000 copies to residents and distributes about 2,000 copies at city facilities.
The union usually bargains in the same year as performers’ union SAG-AFTRA and directors’ union the Directors Guild of America.
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Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Apr. 2026
One potential—though untested—workaround would be for conferences, which are private entities, to serve as a joint employer that bargains with a players’ union.
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