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Michael Fethon says his dad, Jim, waited 18 months from their initial appointment with a GP before being diagnosed.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
"You would never accept someone being diagnosed with cancer and then left to work out the next steps on their own."
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
This buffer allows retirees to fund living expenses without being forced to liquidate depressed stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
In an essay written by Jake on his Substack in April, he expressed being robbed of many milestone moments following his parents’ deaths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Although it is being pulled by four horses instead of the usual six, this is a New Hampshire-built Concord stagecoach, somewhere in Chile at about the time that Phineas Gage arrived there.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Suno’s platform uses a “distillation of the identifying attributes of the human beings who made the songs and recordings: the qualities that make a listener say ‘that is Jason Isbell.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
"I believe that only then will we be able to begin to heal and move forward -- not as adversaries, but as human beings and as peoples equal in dignity."
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
This stuff has been designed intentionally to mimic human beings, and we are very, very easily fooled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
He said police officers were human beings who were your ordinary relatives, friends, parents, partners and colleagues.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Human beings were banned from the Third World because First Woman had kidnapped an infant water monster.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
