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...Carmen Carfora, a sustainability expert at Andermatt, also describes the lengths the resort goes to protect its snowy pistes, including using wind-powered snow machines, and laying a “fleece blanket system...
...“I’ve always wanted to change the world,” Carmen Callil told the Hay Festival this summer, explaining why she started the feminist publishing house Virago Press....
...Melding Snow’s two cultures can produce rewards....
...Like Carmen, she is also monumental and charismatic, a presence who challenges viewers to look away, to dismiss all that she has seen and all that she knows....
...Did Carmen Callil change the world? For generations of readers, yes....
...Concluding every view, brilliantly illuminated, rose the snow-peaks of the Sierra Nevada....
...Looming over the valley were snow-topped Andean giants, crowned by the 6,271-metre-high Salcantay....
...It also puts much more emphasis on the distinctive nature of the changes already seen in the climate system since the 1950s, such as warming oceans, rising sea levels, melting snows and soaring greenhouse...
...Safe, permanent positions with benefits and decent pay – the kind of job that would allow you to buy a house and start a family – seem as rare as snow in a Seville summer....
...This year’s shows varied a good deal in terms of size, fanfare, and quality but the dominant themes were Russia’s dark winter, ethnic patterns, and snow-covered wildlife....
...Carmen Reinhart, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, argued that with denial among policymakers still rife, the outlook was poor....
...“A series of self-reinforcing processes make markets, like piled snow, inherently unstable,” says Matt King, credit strategist at Citigroup....
...Instead of picture-postcard flowerbeds and the al fresco spirit of the summer festival, the opera house is gripped by winter: a low mist hangs over the estate, sheep huddle amid clumps of thawing snow and...
...Unusually, I’ve just added Snow Patrol. My tastes tend to dirgeful, middle England choices, or “music to commit suicide to”, as my children put it. What is your guilty pleasure?...
...Close to our hotel, for example, was El Carmen de San Miguel, where we troughed and sluiced all too copiously....
...Carmen Callil is author of “Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland” (Jonathan Cape)....
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