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...Aerospace is global by nature: young engineers often move continents for opportunities, and Munich is an affluent city with a pleasant climate, close to hills and lakes....
...Independent hawkers are in on the fun too: there’s even a new family-owned bakery in town, Buns from Home, that’s dedicated almost entirely to buns — chocolate, coconut, pistachio et al....
...Under the ownership of Abu Dhabi royal Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan since 2008, Manchester City has transformed from mid-table underdog to six-times winner of the Premier League....
...district of Surry Hills has an embarrassment of great cafés, but there’s no better spot for whiling away the day than Paramount....
...In this year’s final, it’s Manchester City versus London’s Chelsea, Pep Guardiola against rival top manager Thomas Tuchel; Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi royal, against Russian-Israeli...
...But the renewal of Claridge’s is different; it is a renewal of his commitment to London, “one of the greatest cities, if not the greatest, on Earth”....
...Karen Bass, a Democratic representative from California who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, sought to distance Democrats on Capitol Hill from the calls to defund the police on Monday....
...You/SCIENCE from Masnadi et al, SCIENCE 361: 851, 2018 (10.1126/science.aar6859). Modified with permission from AAAS.)...
...With this we drank a bottle of stunning, mature, rare but very fresh 2008 Stony Hill Chardonnay ($117) from California; our bill came to $290 for two including service....
...Barry Forshaw Science fiction New Pompeii, by Daniel Godfrey, Titan Books, RRP£7.99/$14.95 Pompeii has been recreated in a former Soviet republic, complete with the residents of the original doomed city...
...of town to the Western Ghats, a range of hills around two hours inland from the city....
...Greene herself steers clear of criticising Amazon but she angrily sums up the challenge from Whistl et al like this: “This is not the kind of competition that drives efficiency....
...Bloom et al conducted a randomised controlled trial with employees from the company’s call centres....
...His form master in 1953 recalls: “A legendary figure of fun.” “I’m just cheeky, and you can get away with cheek, can’t you?” says Hockney. “I mean, if you’re pleasant with it.”...
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...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...The choicest bits of the west’s great cities belong, in part, to foreign dictators. We complain about these people, but we need them....
...The environmentalists of coastal California may have made their own region more pleasant, but they are harming the environment by pushing new building away from Berkeley suburbs, which have a temperate climate...
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...After an English degree at the University of California Los Angeles, “I started selling posters on the sidewalk”. He acquired them for $2, stuck them in aluminium frames and resold them at $15....
...These besuited men are talent agents and their stomping ground is the stretch of Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards that links Beverly Hills with the skyscrapers of nearby Century City, the business district...
...Strategy, Accenture 0930: Sameer Al Ansari, Executive Chairman and CEO, Dubai International Capital 1000: Ken Rosen, Professor Emeritus, University of California 1030: Stephen King, Group Chief Economist...
...“This moment was necessary, for despite a century of civil rights legislation, judicial interventions and social activism — despite Brown v....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Will the sweep of history come to view it, along with all the Bugatti Veyrons, Ferrari 599s, Porsche 997 Turbos, Lamborghinis et al as the four-wheeled equivalent of diplodocus and his chums?...
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