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...In blue feathered crowns and boas, wearing T-shirts with phrases such as “Sweet History”, they flood in their dozens past the security gates of the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia....
...Her best guess of the fatality rate at the time was a little under one per cent. I nodded, believed her, did the maths in my head — 50 million dead — and went about my business....
...The lab has a number of state-of-the-art instruments, kept under floral plastic sheeting. Shipping costs and diesel for the generator eat up a lot of the budget....
...Beijing has pushed hard to close excess capacity in coal and steel, depriving more than a million people of jobs, while boosting profits for the companies that remain....
...“I’m sure there’s a Microsoft project planner for who’s doing what at any given point of the week,” says a friend who recalls her travelling to Texas for a day and a half before rushing back to supervise...
...As well as providing new technologies in this area, her programme at the Gates Foundation is also trying to foster new markets for farmers....
...The trustee seeking to retrieve assets for Madoff’s victims, Irving Picard, says the fraud began as early as 1983....
...He was appointed as short-term chief-of-staff to Boris Johnson, helping him in his London mayoralty for the first three months, and now heads a team of officials drawing up Cameron’s preparations for government...
...He arrives at the gate hot, flustered and yearning for a beer. He offers to buy me a drink, and pushes up to the bar, but his chief of staff pulls him away. There is no time....
...Her rare capacity for listening, her mathematical mind and intellectual curiosity, but also her determination, stubbornness and burning ambition, have served Merkel well since she pulled over in Lobbe in...
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