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Personnel currently attending classes at Harvard will be able to finish those courses.—
JOCELYN GECKER,
Arkansas Online,
8 Feb. 2026 -
Across five courses, each cocktail is a Negroni variation transformed through techniques such as evaporation, infusion, and reconstruction.—
Melinda Joe,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2026
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Alarms for doors and windows, smart locks or wearables that detect movement are other options that boost safety and can connect to the caregiver's smartphones.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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Over half were additives typically added to ultraprocessed foods; the rest were more natural options, such as the use of lemon juice as a preservative or beet juice for color.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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These classes won’t be part of the master’s program, though.—
Claire Rafford,
IndyStar,
9 Feb. 2026
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Colt Gray had enrolled at the school on August 14 and had already missed nine days of classes leading up to the shooting, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
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Cancer, kismet and the comfort of girlhood Taylor and Finkel know not all cancer patients have a best friend who lives close enough to go to appointments with them, let alone the time to do so.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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The sapphire tiara that Queen Máxima of the Netherlands wears for some of her most important appointments is one of the oldest, most spectacular and recognizable pieces of the Dutch royal heritage.—
Marta Martínez Tato,
Vanity Fair,
13 Feb. 2026
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The Progressive Boat Show Experience features experiential boating lifestyle activations, entertainment, cuisine and educational seminars.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
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In the spring, the Sonnenalp also makes an ideal basecamp for attending the seminars, grand tastings, and indulgent winemaker dinners of Vail’s beloved food and wine festival, the Taste of Vail.—
Sarah Kuta,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Feb. 2026
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From galaxy-spanning Star Wars icons to Broadway favorites, wizarding rivals, and nostalgic cartoon duos, BrickHeadz builds turn favorite pop culture figures into desk- and shelf-worthy decor.—
Brittany Anas,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Feb. 2026
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Her other dependable favorites are Vitamin A’s Ada Metallic Underwire One-Piece Swimsuit and Cupshe’s High Waisted V-Neck Twist Front Bikini Set.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
7 Feb. 2026
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Parents waited in long lines to have their children inoculated, and enterprising physicians went to rural clinics to reach the last isolated clusters of unvaccinated people.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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The majority of these clients use clinics in California, one of the strongholds of the forty-two-billion-dollar global fertility industry.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Electives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/electives. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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