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Recent Examples of vacuitiesIs this a biting farce about the vacuities of celebrity industry?—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
The district, which previously lost a quarter of its staff annually, reported opening schools with zero teaching vacancies for the first time after the project opened.
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Thomas White,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 2026
The latest data was published in the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce’s yearly economic indicators report, which offered an overall bleak picture of the Bay Area economy, including declining buying power among residents and deepening office vacancies in the city.
But in recent years, physicists have noted that black holes are also surprisingly similar to de Sitter space.
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Shalma Wegsman,
Quanta Magazine,
30 Mar. 2026
By studying this polarization, IXPE can help astronomers probe some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos, such as why black holes spin, what powers the extreme jets blasting from supermassive black holes, or why pulsars glow so brightly in X-ray light.
And in South Florida groups have stepped in to support migrants navigating complicated immigration processes, from deportation to self-deportation, often filling gaps left by government systems.
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Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
Experts have also said America’s broader retirement system earns just a C-plus grade, with persistent gaps in coverage, savings adequacy, and longevity protection.
Williams turns out to be the film’s star player, filling in the blanks of London’s short, sad life, and his powers of perception lead the film to its extraordinary conclusion, smoking out a killer who was hiding in plain sight at every step of the way.
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
13 Mar. 2026
And then Kittle helped fill in the blanks.
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Noah Furtado,
San Francisco Chronicle,
12 Mar. 2026