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Ishioka, a celebrated Japanese graphic designer making her first foray into Hollywood costume design, won an Oscar for her work on the film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
But recent disappointments in Alzheimer’s research, including hyped medicines based on a shaky hypothesis, have drawn more attention to their work on the brain-destroying mechanisms of FTD and how these might be halted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Meanwhile, Democratic Virginia Congressman Don Beyer says excavation work on the site where the arch will stand has already begun.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Other AI leaders have been somewhat resistant to that idea of broadly pacing work on AI.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
He went home, stretched an enormous canvas—eight feet by eight feet—and set to work on a painting that became known as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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