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Occupancy climbed to 66% in August from 36% in March, though it remained below levels from a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Gray, who had passed his test a month earlier, was acquitted of causing the deaths of his two friends after a five-day trial at Stirling Sheriff Court last November.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Most earlier studies, however, focused on older adults or people who already had neurological conditions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
“We don’t have rules for opening a private school,” Kaelin Clay, an Arkansas Department of Education spokesperson, told us earlier this year.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
The great puffy clouds that lined the horizon earlier, like boats lined up along a dock, are now streaked with equal parts gray, tangerine, and rose petal pink, the last colors of the day’s light.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
