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Pingle’s UBS team did quite a bit better than most on the March data, estimating that 100,000 new jobs were created, versus the Wall Street consensus of 59,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Halliday: I physically was a different character when I was in the scenes in Toronto versus when I was in Gilead because I was inhabiting the space in a very different way.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Since January 2021, airline ticket prices have risen more than 50% versus 24% for core U.S. inflation.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

The global economy is far larger, more diversified and less reliant on energy as an input versus 20 years ago, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

The very earliest events in the specification of an embryo—the specification of the body axis, of front and back, and left versus right—were among the last to be understood.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee