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...“Bottom line is that it is always better as a nation to have your own oil,” said Amy Myers Jaffe, a professor at NYU....
...But Odysseus was built by a private Houston-based company called Intuitive Machines....
...“There’s a moment in the exhibition where you hear Whitney Houston’s isolated vocals and there’s no denying that power....
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...“In a world of climate change and resource wars, it’s time to move away from the ‘we can’t be Jimmy Carter in a sweater’ mentality,” said Jaffe....
...He sees the pavilion as part of The Question of Clay, a multi-institution project with past exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube, and a research project at the V&A....
...The plinth has been empty since King George V’s bust was removed in the 1960s. Some wanted to erect Mohandas Gandhi’s statue there....
...But American jeweller Tess Sholom, who has works from the 1970s and 80s in the Met, as well as Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, says online collections have kickstarted her year-old gold jewellery business...
...A star trio of women’s voices — Julia Bullock, Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara — tug at the heartstrings with “Migratory V”. Part two, Work, follows on February 24; Love in April; Faith in May....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...In southern Tamil Nadu state, where the family’s roots lie, giant billboards with Ms Harris’ face appeared, proclaiming “P.V. Gopalan’s granddaughter is victorious”....
...Video of the day What the Houston consulate closure says about US-China tensions?...
...Houston Ballet played into New Yorkers’ high self-regard this weekend by showcasing the city’s own choreographers. The company style, though, is something we can only envy....
...It dominates cities including San Francisco and Houston, but is behind Grubhub in New York and Boston....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...In “The Emerging”, black ceramic inverted V-shapes rise up from the ground....
...(Forbes) Anna v Andrea It’s one of those boardroom battles that has captivated the global industry....
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...(FT) Brussels v China The European Commission branded China a “systemic rival”, criticising unfair treatment of European companies and threatened tighter investment rules as the bloc pushes back on Beijing...
...In future, you may be able to solve a problem without dialling Houston. Today, Orion’s processing power will still be below 500MHz — significantly less than a MacBook....
...Amy Myers Jaffe is executive director of energy and sustainability at University of California, Davis....
...Elliott v Arconic: Round 2 The nastiest proxy fight of the season concluded on Monday. Or did it?...
...The lead arrangers on the RCF signed this week were ABN AMRO, Crédit Agricole, Credit Suisse, DBS Bank Ltd, ING Bank N.V., Natixis, Rabobank, Société Générale, UBS and UniCredit....
...But it doesn’t feel like a V or a W.” Three factors are critical to any recovery....
...The same is happening all over the rest of the state: prices in Houston are at or near all-time highs — so much so that in May the rating agency Fitch said Houston was the seventh most overvalued market...
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