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He and a part-time employee, Lucio Rosas, billed for their time and materials.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

The scale, materials and labour made the book expensive to produce, so Audubon made an effort to sell copies in advance of printing.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

The very personal materials Mr. Raim uses—including journals, notebooks, correspondence, photos, interviews and wildly damaged but still distinguishable home-movie footage—go only so far into the interior life of the subject.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

"This result shows that our long-term strategic planning has paid off," Professor Jöns said, adding: "The combination of excellent materials science, nanofabrication and optical quantum technology was the key to our success."

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

Try different texture materials, rough like sandpaper, raised like playdough and pom-poms, or pipe cleaners—check art supply stores for variety to suit lesson plan.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin