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...John nods in agreement: “It’s in the Whitaker genes. Jack has inherited the determination to win,” he says....
...Simon Harris is set to become Ireland’s next Taoiseach (prime minister) after emerging as the sole candidate to succeed Leo Varadkar....
...A genetic technology bill to enable gene editing of plants and animals will also be introduced....
...Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights and Hamilton have taken it towards hip-hop, a genre whose storytelling gene makes it a very good fit for musical theatre....
...For those keen on exploring Ishiguro’s backlist, I’ve been enjoying The Unconsoled (Faber & Faber, read by Simon Vance), the long, dreamlike narrative that takes us through three days of a concert pianist...
.../ From Simon Webb, London W1, UK...
...work on gene editing, for which she was awarded a Nobel Prize....
...After the fire, Gene Kranz, Nasa’s flight director, instructed his staff to write a phrase on their blackboards: “Tough and Competent”....
...Simon Kuper goes to the front line of French schools teaching children to spot fake news....
...“About 30 genes are known to affect susceptibility to Alzheimer’s. In my lab we are working on predicting someone’s Alzheimer’s risk from their genes — and we can do that very well now.”...
...Simon Kuper, the FT columnist and co-author of Soccernomics, shared his thoughts exclusively with DD....
...In 1996, John F Kennedy Jr, the son of the late president, chose Cumberland Island as the location for his wedding to Carolyn Bessette....
...The academic: Professor Bébène Bandzouzi By Simon Kuper A decade ago, almost nothing was known about Alzheimer’s in Africa....
...Here is my story on the Trump rally in the upstate New York town, which Gene Hackman made briefly famous in The French Connection....
...Simon Sebag Montefiore: ‘The Romanovs 1613-1918’ Sunday April 10, 10am, Sheldonian Theatre, £12-£25 Historian and broadcaster Simon Sebag Montefiore tells how one family turned a war-ruined principality...
...Simon Schama FT contributing editor Wow, the Man-Bookers got it right!...
...Dave Simpson CEO, Glythera Dr Malcolm Weir CEO, Heptares Therapeutics Eliot Forster CEO, Immunocore Dr Aidan Murphy Senior Vice-president Biologics Development & Manufacturing, Ipsen Biopharm Dr Simon...
...simon.kuper@ft.com; Twitter @KuperSimon Illustration by André Carrilho...
...The Monstrous Child, by Francesca Simon, Profile/Faber, RRP£9.99 Horrid Henry Simon’s debut for older children takes inspiration from bleak Norse myth....
...However, Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray, one of Wall Street’s most bullish Apple analysts, cautioned that supply-chain leaks were not always reliable indicators of iPhone sales....
...This pattern may apply even in the US: think Muhammad Ali, John McEnroe, Carl Lewis, and the growing list of baseball record-holders barred from the Hall of Fame....
...After all, not since John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams in the early 19th century has America had a family with two successive generations of presidents in its gene pool....
...They are even riper in John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, in which a brother and sister find solace from the corrupt world around them – in each other’s arms....
...One does, however, marvel that a newspaper could take Miliband Sr’s professions of socialism – spiced up with a few grumpy quotes extracted from his teenage diary – as irreconcilable with patriotism....
...Simon Kuper is an FT columnist ——————————————- Simon Kuper’s favourites: 10 of the best ● Beyond A Boundary (1963) by CLR James ● Paper Lion: Confessions of a LastString Quarterback (1965) by George...
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