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...Chanel and Chaumet employ the wheat emblem, while vines and the Roman horn of plenty feature in Van Cleef’s Le Grand Tour collection....
...“If you say you’re a surfer, people imagine the guy with the van, travelling the world,” says Jaccoux....
...“I’m tired,” he said. “Why do they have to make it difficult? I’m doing the work of the state here.” His phone lit up with a WhatsApp call from the embassy of Morocco. He sighed....
...I’m riding a Royal Enfield Himalayan, a mid-size 411cc adventure bike designed for traversing every kind of terrain....
...The chicken buses come barrelling past, a flash of colours accompanied by blaring horns and exhaust pipes....
...Instead, I’m travelling west by car, meandering into the dips and hollows of the landscape to research a new book....
...The New Shepard rocket, named after the US astronaut Alan Shepard, launched from a site near Van Horn, a strip of shabby motels surrounded by sagebrush and scrubland where locals have been hoping for an...
...“I’m not very good at doing one thing,” he said. With Blue Origin facing a steep challenge as it tries catch up with SpaceX, those words may come back to haunt him....
...I’m struck by how inappropriate is the Cavendish motto “Cavendo Tutus”, or “Safety through caution”, carved in large letters across the south front of the house....
...“I’m kind of stunned by the silence,” Wood recounts. “I walk into the kitchen to the counter. And I’m not happy, and I’m not sad. I’m just in that zen state. “Boom. That’s when it hit me....
...To her right is a languid well-dressed man with a shock of white hair and a beard carefully trimmed into the sort of point that suggests he has recently escaped from a Van Dyck portrait....
...“They will probably arrest us but I’m not afraid — Navalny is already in jail, so why should we be scared?” said Alina, a housewife who attended with her husband Evgeniy....
...I also treasure my Love Thermometer, a present that my friend, the wonderful artist Rebecca Horn, gave me a long time ago....
...“I’m giving Joep credit here, for saving my life,” says Nefkens simply....
...“I’m creative. I like to create,” he says. “I am obsessed with the work but maintain a level of detachment. Everything I do is like a journal that I feel compelled to write in....
...A region once dominated by tobacco farming has become a horn of plenty....
...I’m not sure I could do as well. But when my Zoox robot pulled up behind a FedEx van that had paused on a sharp corner, it was flummoxed....
...Grazing on grass sprouting in the summer rain are a herd of yak, each the size of a van, with an emperor’s fly-whisk of a tail at one end and perfectly set horns at the other....
...I was living the dream, among Van Dycks and Meissen porcelain. I didn’t move for the first day....
...The sign indicating Rook’s Books is hidden by foliage, but within its open-fronted entrance sits an improbably leather-clad vintage van with inexplicable bull-horns....
...As one guide says: “The more camps there are, paying anti-poaching patrols, the fewer tusks and rhino horns will make it to China. Mugabe one day will die....
...Having lost his house during the financial crisis, he sometimes stays in a camper van at his mother’s house. “But it’s not really . . . ” He trails off with a defeated shrug....
...“But I’m not going to fake it!” Horn’s dislike of obfuscation is key to her rapport with Iceland, a country she loves for its geology....
...I’ll call you another time because I’m busy now.’” South African officials say they have arrested some 1,400 poachers in recent years....
...Nevertheless, no bidder in an M&A deal makes an approach without thinking about the next step, so you can never rule out a higher offer from the contenders....
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