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...Semiconductor Manufacturing Company will build a second fabrication plant in the same state; IBM will invest in New York’s Hudson Valley region and Micron will build the US’s largest semiconductor plant in Clay...
...There is all sorts of political graffiti; continually repeated are George Floyd’s final words, “I can’t breathe”....
...Sky, the UK broadcaster, filled the empty airtime with a discussion on the Black Lives Matter protest movement that had grown in response to the police killing of George Floyd in the US....
...At those moments Jackson’s feet of clay were nowhere to be seen....
...Nick Mason, Pink Floyd’s drummer, still has the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that Stern sold him for £42,500 in 1978; the vehicle is worth about £30m today....
...A heavy rainfall would dissolve the valley’s gypsum-and-clay shapes entirely, but fortunately it has never rained....
...James Baldwin covered Floyd Patterson’s 1962 fight with Sonny Liston....
...All this came back to mind because boxing, which once captured the global imagination, has another “fight of the century” next Saturday when welterweights Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao duke it out...
...Beneath the large oil painting of Lady Floyd, daughter of the first Baron Gretton, is a snap of Pamela Anderson; across the room is a grinning David Hasselhoff....
...magazine, the closest thing there is to an independent arbiter among the sport’s confusing complexity of rival sanctioning bodies, has rated him the top pound-for-pound performer since the retirement of Floyd...
...On clay though, Nadal’s favourite surface, the young Spaniard looks to have the Swiss maestro’s measure....
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