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...In the US, the National Weather Service forecast that an intense heatwave would affect the Pacific Northwest region from Friday, with areas of Oregon and Washington states experiencing unseasonable daytime...
...In years past, attendance at Sunday service was mandatory, and it was only in 1951 that Swedish Lutherans were legally allowed to leave the church without offering a good reason....
...Accessed by private tunnel, the pair of adjoining chalets (the seven-bedroom East Wing and six-bedroom West Wing) perch above the prestigious Petit Alaska enclave....
...She has taken drastic measures to protect the Amazon forest, creating a forest service, a biodiversity institute and the Amazon Fund, the largest international effort for rainforest conservation....
...None of us blames Merckx or Museeuw for deciding not to ride today. The men have won the actual Paris-Roubaix three times each. Yet Merckx comes out in his jeans and V-neck jumper to wave us off....
...(FT) No US-China breakthrough The Biden administration and China ended their first high-level meeting on Friday after two days of talks in Alaska that produced an extraordinary public spat and no sign of...
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...And second, a collapse in demand in the US and EU....
...We are also overweight US utilities....
...I’ll be in Alaska in August giving a talk on board the QE2 and I’ve given myself a couple of weeks in between jobs to travel down the west coast of Canada and the US to San Francisco before I head to the...
...White, an Australian academic, argues that the US’s current approach is dangerously confrontational and suggests an approach that would grant China equal footing in the Asia-Pacific region....
...They are part of a growing trend in the US for “music cruises”, in which bands of a particular genre come together to perform onboard....
...Certainly none of us ever expected to stand at his grave. Bobby grew up in Calicut on the Malabar Coast, part of its tiny community of Parsis, or Indian Zoroastrians....
...The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle By Sara Wheeler Jonathan Cape, £20 Sara Wheeler is the literary maestro of the earth’s frozen regions....
...Now is the time for us to work on these aspects to eliminate supply bottlenecks, enhance productivity, reduce costs and improve quality of goods and services supplied to consumers....
...About an hour out of town we stopped for a walk through the Mabira tropical forest, where a guide showed us trees “strangling” each other....
...It expects the species to vanish from the region with further development....
...Seattle effectively turned Alaska into its own client-state, making the last open frontier dependent on the city for shipping, supplies and services, and handsomely enriching itself in the process....
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