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quote [ Chris Perani looks for 'striking visual impact.' ]

quote [ Many medical therapies, from cancer treatments to the management of infertility, are now so routine that their origins are easily overlooked. Yet each rests on years of painstaking research and discovery to ensure that such treatments are both safe and effective for clinical use. ]

quote [ Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship. ]

quote [ “I told him, ‘You’ve got to lose those end notes. No one’s going to bother,’” she recalls with deep amusement now. “That was my contribution to 20th-century American literature: I tried to talk David out of the thing that really made Infinite Jest stand out.” ]

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quote [ As global insecurity prompts Germany and other European countries to expand their armed forces, biologists are tracking the impacts to the flora and fauna on military bases. ]