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...But for some years now JR Central, the company that operates the existing shinkansen line between Tokyo and Osaka, has been looking to best itself with a ¥9tn ($60bn), 500km/h magnetically levitating train...
...Richard H Lawrence Jr, chair of both the Asia-focused asset manager Overlook Investments Group and of the non-profit Carbon Mapper, hopes to see a climate equivalent to the gruelling qualification known...
...(Practical Engineering) — Inside the hip-hop record store run by undercover cops (Vice) — Big coin (Riksbank) (H/T to everyone on the Alphaville.club Mastodon server who has shared links.)...
...She learnt to play the piano after her grandmother saved up enough S&H Green Stamps to buy her an instrument in the S&H store. “I have tons of hobbies,” Cox continues....
...The facts appear to be that the driver charged with driving a vehicle built to run at 320km/h and to the strictest of schedules made a mistake....
...An object I would never part with is a shovel from the groundbreaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in DC, in November 2006....
...Even ones that don’t have big egos, like Jimmy Carter and George H W Bush, have a hard time adjusting to [civilian] life.”...
...In 1995, local philanthropist Mitchell Wolfson Jr opened The Wolfsonian, a South Beach museum devoted to 19th and 20th-century objects and design....
...Losing The Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, by Philip H Gordon, St Martin’s Press, RRP$29.99, 368 pages From Iran in 1953 to Libya in 2011, via Iraq in 2003 (as well as...
...When Martin Luther King Jr walked with 250,000 people to Washington in 1963, it was a march for “jobs and freedom”....
...(It was the start of a scandal that would eventually lead to Falwell Jr’s resignation from the university.)...
...Marsh, East Sussex, England Crossword 16,377: John Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H...
...Ian Paisley Jr, a Democratic Unionist MP, said simply: “No surrender.”...
...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
...John H Schuyler Simsbury, CT, US...
...Supreme Court of the United States Clarence Thomas, 70, appointed by George H W Bush John Roberts, 63, appointed by George W Bush Samuel Alito Jr., 68, appointed by George W Bush Stephen Breyer, 79,...
...expressed interest in Time assets in recent months are David Pecker, publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid and a close ally of President Donald Trump; a team including Seagram scion Edgar Bronfman Jr...
...interest after Time Inc hired bankers to field offers in the wake of an unsolicited bid from an investment group backed by Len Blavatnik, the billionaire owner of Warner Music Group, and Edgar Bronfman Jr...
...In an apparent response to reports of White House infighting over the email revelations and the way they have been covered by the media, the president tweeted: “The W.H. is functioning perfectly, focused...
...Mitsubishi Heavy, which made the H-2A rocket launched on Tuesday for a satellite, said it had conducted its own inspections on the material from the steel group ahead of lift off....
...Corvi-Mora Gallery, 1A Kempsford Road, London SE11 (020-7840 9111; corvi-mora.com) An indulgence I would never forgo is a hot bath; it’s like a meditation....
...Harrison Akins, a research fellow at the Howard H Baker Jr Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, says: “The Trump administration’s decision to pursue sanctions against Pakistan, alongside...
...The following year, in April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr would be assassinated by a white man, and those cities would erupt again....
...Sign-up for our Weekend Email here Letter in response to this article: Germany has a largely ceremonial head of state / From A D H Leishman, Cape Town, South Africa...
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