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The National STEM Festival Prepares to Cross the Atlantic

The science fair, that durable American institution in which earnest young people explain their poster boards to politely nodding judges, is about to acquire a passport.

The science fair, that durable American institution in which earnest young people explain their poster boards to politely nodding judges, is about to acquire a passport.

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John Lewis Marks Two Decades of Holiday Campaigns With a Familiar Face and a Wooden Dog

For twenty years now, the John Lewis holiday advertisement has served as an unofficial starting gun for the British Christmas season, a role the department store chain has embraced with the sort of earnest commitment that Americans might associate with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, if the para

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T-Mobile Adds Two Shops to Its Creative Roster

The wireless carrier T-Mobile has hired Highdive and Anomaly to handle creative duties, in what appears to be an expansion of the agency relationships for a marketer that has long favored the bold and the magenta.

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A Promotion, a Departure, and the Eternal Shuffle of the Org Chart

The San Diego Padres have promoted Christopher Connolly to executive vice president and chief marketing and operations officer, a title that combines the portfolio he already held with the one vacated by Caroline Perry, who left recently to join the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Vaseline Bets That an Old Name Still Moisturizes

There are few experiences quite as personally deflating as buying a lotion that smells like a French bakery and leaves your elbows as parched as the Mojave.

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CTV Becomes the Main Stage for Midterm Spending

For decades, the arrival of political advertising season was announced by the same unmistakable signal: the sudden appearance of attack ads during local news broadcasts, wedged between furniture store commercials and weather updates.