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...In 2017, a Bill Gates-run investment company spent $80m on a piece of Arizona desert land to build a “smart city”, tentatively called Belmont....
...Meanwhile, it has invested in physical stores with its $13.7bn acquisition of Whole Foods and in the pharmacy business via PillPack. These moves are well-timed....
...Morgan Stanley advised on six out of the 10 largest deals, including US health insurer Cigna’s $68.5bn acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts and European media group Sky, which was approached...
...In October, the endeavour was rocked by the fatal crash of a spaceship in the Mojave desert in the US, killing a test pilot....
...The video and film creators Douglas Gordon and Philippe Pareno do a Sky Sports Playercam number on Zidane, with 17 cameras, and call it art. More exactly they call it “a 21st-century portrait”....
...In the nearest all-night pharmacy, long lines of customers were buying soft drinks, snacks and over-the-counter Prozac in both branded and generic form....
...During the Battle of Stalingrad, the Russians executed about 13,500 of their own soldiers; commanders were ordered to form a second line to “combat cowardice” by shooting anyone who tried to desert....
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