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...Though I am not a New Yorker, or an animal person, the story has proved rather harder to escape than Central Park Zoo....
...I am more at home with animals and birds, and I was looking forward to girly chats with her as we stroked the other guests. But on the night, Jessica Rabbit turns up instead....
...Evolutionary’s outré genetic bricolage is a terrific opportunity for Gunn’s creature design department, who devise some flamboyantly nightmarish creations — although the best value are simply a race of animal-human...
...It made me wonder about other estate guardians and what it’s like to manage a reputation, as well as the self-sacrifice of focusing so much on someone else’s work....
...When campaigning, he sometimes settled for humans calling themselves “pet guardians” as a compromise....
...(NBER) — Man, 30, completes encyclopedia of animals he started at nine (The Guardian) — The astonishing transformation of Austin (New Yorker) — Companies and entropy (The Diff) — How skateboard wheels...
...They are the guardians of major French design legacies — Royère, Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Georges Jouve, Pierre Paulin and living designers such as Starck and Szekely....
...Context: The commission can launch infringement proceedings against any member state that is not upholding EU law as part of its role as “guardian of the Treaties”....
...“Yes, it’s OK to laugh at wealthy Burning Man attendees mired in muck,” read a headline in the Guardian. Why?...
...This is a story from The Guardian yesterday. There are cases of bird flu being detected in the region, which has never been there before....
...The EU is rethinking plans for stricter animal welfare measures over concerns they could fuel food price inflation....
...Kate became Sarah’s appointed guardian to manage doctors appointments and to ensure she couldn’t stockpile painkillers....
...The study of animals and plants, of astronomy, even of mathematics: these all came to be categorised as natural philosophy....
...— Conversations on Totalitarianism (Law and Liberty) — Citi's $900mn Revlon gaffe risks getting even more painful (Bloomberg $) — The perks and perils of winging it to the top (Guardian) — Can democracy...
...As for alien abductions, crop circles and animal mutilation, the MoD hadn’t investigated a single case. “[Pope] didn’t need to go down this route,” Mantle said....
...Tell me about an animal you have loved.Ru, my Boston terrier, came into my life, and I learnt what it would feel like if I was a parent. I’m a dogfather!...
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...What, you may wonder, unites the Harrogate Spring bottled water company, The Guardian newspaper, and a handful of small-scale British jewellers, including Ellie Air and Shakti Ellenwood?...
...The Guardian offers an explainer of the UK royal family’s finances....
...When it comes to wild birds, however, the claim by the hunting lobby that its members are guardians of nature is worse than dubious....
...The next day, I meet another guardian of tradition in Elbasan, a town just south of Tirana....
...Only Peter, convinced that the elephant can lead him to his sister, stops to wonder what the animal herself might need....
...approach, popular among the likes of BlackRock chief Larry Fink, “is the logic of the 2008 bank bailouts expanded to the global level — socialise the risks, privatise the profits”, Tooze writes in The Guardian...
...Vaccine passports enjoy substantial support across Europe, according to a YouGov survey published today in the Guardian....
...Clinton’s tweet was “as meaningless as announcing that he landed between Calgary and Buenos Aires”, said an article in The Guardian. Africa, as Waianana noted, is “big”....
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