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...A 30-minute drive to Manhattan. What A waterfront five-bedroom house with library and parquet floors....
...It prompts us to reflect that we’re lucky to live in a scientific age; and that human creativity can act as an antidote to despair....
...In August, two great friends visited from Virginia and we spent a joyful week in a Cotswolds tornado of garden tours, pub lunches and trinket hunts....
...The lucky winner was not the company that got the subsidies but the community that got the headquarters.”...
...America’s rivals would be lucky to have such neighbours....
...Someone suggests stamping secret codes on real dollar bills which lucky finders can then exchange for virtual currency, creating a kind of countrywide treasure hunt....
...Lunch over – Clive sees us out with a bow – he drives me across the estate in a grey Mercedes past arable fields, dairy, stables: “It’s like a little principality,” he says....
...Lark & Termite By Jayne Anne Phillips Jonathan Cape, £16.99 Lark, a precociously wise 12-year-old, cares for her disabled half-brother Termite in small-town West Virginia....
...I used to like to drive vast distances, with the radio on. Now I get there as soon as possible by air or rail. How do you feel when you get back?...
...She speaks proudly of her daughter, who is studying finance at university in Virginia: “Later on, I hope that we can do something together.”...
...“Parents will drive for miles to put their children in the right care.”...
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