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Exceptional leaders understand the far-reaching impact of top performers and seek to meet their needs.—
Kate Wieczorek,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025 -
Health care leaders say consumers should use hospital ratings as just one tool when considering where to seek care.—
Lisa Schencker,
Chicago Tribune,
29 July 2025
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To find out, McCleery and his colleague Chris Dutton gathered 40 toy rabbits and replaced their stuffing with electrical components that run on solar power.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 July 2025
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Keep an eye on the weather forecast closer to the peak to find out local viewing chances.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
21 July 2025
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In one of his final public acts, Osbourne designed and signed limited-edition t-shirts to raise funds for the campaign, urging the UK government to ban the import of hunting trophies from endangered species.—
Amanda Castro
Gabe Whisnant
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Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 July 2025
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Hakimi’s protagonist straddles the thin line between reality and fantasy, between cultures and languages, between hunting and being hunted.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
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Instead, leading Senate Republicans released a discussion draft, accompanied by a request for industry feedback, earlier this week.—
Owen Tedford,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Still, the National Weather Service is not anticipating any severe weather to accompany the storms this week.—
Francesca Pica,
jsonline.com,
23 July 2025
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Written by young adult author Lois Duncan, the novel concerns four teenage friends who accidentally run down and kill a cyclist and cover up their involvement in the crime.—
William Earl,
Variety,
16 July 2025
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The truck may have been taking up a small portion of a bike lane that runs down Broadway near Cedar St. at the time of the attack, a police source with knowledge of the incident said.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
16 July 2025
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For decades, archaeologists have been digging up enigmatic hominin fossils across East and Southeast Asia.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
26 July 2025
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In 2018, after Gunn criticized then-President Donald Trump on then-Twitter, right-wing commentator Mike Cernovich dug up old tweets Gunn had posted between 2008 and 2012, making jokes about pedophilia, rape, and the Holocaust.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
21 July 2025
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Powell held up both Irwin and Grace while their friends and family off-screen could be heard laughing at the sight.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
25 July 2025
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Alone at night, Mike hears the animatronics nearby.—
Allison DeGrushe Published,
EW.com,
25 July 2025
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Comprehensive protective intelligence including digital risk and threat monitoring to scan for and detect threats on social media and deep and dark web venues, as well as continual assessment of the threat landscape and the executive’s evolving profile.—
Control Risks,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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In providing additional transit times for planets detected by Kepler more than a decade later, PLATO will improve measurements of TTVs to enable the discovery of more misaligned worlds.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
15 July 2025
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