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...As with many in Nigeria’s precarious middle class, it took a single stroke of misfortune to dislodge her plans....
...In 1995, she was invited to join a National Academy of Sciences committee examining the impact of “hormonally active agents in the environment” — EDCs....
...Until the evening I’m in tasting mode, and I’m looking for the faults as much as the qualities in a wine.Then, when the workday is over, I love drinking wine. 99....
...At the time, Pita and other Move Forward MPs spoke on behalf of the protesters on the floor of parliament....
...At college and as a graduate student he’d written student advice books with punchy titles such as How to Win at College....
...One scientific paper describes Sudarshan Kriya’s central breathing technique as “rhythmic hyperventilation”, and hundreds of students at the Indian Institute of Science protested against a talk Shankar gave...
...The frontman for the operation was the same fixer, who, by first posing as a sponsor, would corrupt tennis players on behalf of a group of gamblers that included an ex-player....
...That or I’d have gone into a K-hole of mute anxiety as the former “number one competitive debater on the continent of Europe” wiped the floor with me in unsparing, affectless prose....
...I was a curious kid, and a lonely kid because of the one-child policy, and I would look at aeroplanes flying over the mountains and wonder if I’d one day be able to catch one to see what was on the other...
...Is she always on the move? “More than I’d like at the moment,” she replies. “For the past 26 years, we’ve lived wherever the projects are [mostly in Patagonia]. But I’m a nester....
...But the course of the pandemic will have a big impact on the relative income of big urban city centres....
...A: We’ve been together for about 54 years when I was a student and also when I went for military training in Egypt as well as in China....
...People are more and more isolated in the academy, and, as a consequence, they may have less and less of a connection to the world....
...“I find the easy ones and then I start on the hard ones after. I’m really excited by science, so I did the science ones first,” he explains....
...And since Class 2 contributions are payable at a flat rate, while Class 4 is chargeable as a proportion of profits, all self-employed people earning less than £16,250 will still see a reduction in their...
...But as you can imagine, once you’re looking at education and race and sex and age and cause of death, you’ve got a lot of balls in the air....
...Here she offers similarly brief lives of artists on the fringes of New York, where she moves, alone, while meditating on the seemingly contradictory state of urban existence: loneliness in a crowd....
...“I was working on behalf of people who hadn’t paid their electric bill of $60....
...“They can have a nice life with lots of money, sex, drugs and gambling in Monte Carlo,” he said of the resulting two-person hybrid that would emerge....
...“He would take the weight of the student union on his shoulders, and he did the exact same thing at UBS,” he said....
...Glauco Villas Boas and his son Raoni, a university student, were shot and killed in their house at Osasco, a suburb of São Paulo, on March 12 2010....
...Sciences in Beijing and author of some of the most authoritative books on the subject....
...A stronger America. It is this kind of prosperity – broad, shared, and built on a thriving middle class – that has always been the source of our progress at home....
...Plan D , by Simon Urban, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99, 528 pages A procedural with a twist, set in a Germany where the wall never fell....
...Carroll, a cosmologist, writes with remarkable clarity about the formidable complexities of particle physics and is just as good on the human side of “big science”....
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