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...In the US state department archives is a memorandum of a conversation in Paris between de Gaulle and President John Kennedy....
...The American author John Berger addresses both groups in Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth (Seven Stories Press, $28.95)....
...It is a bizarre and, with modern hindsight, disturbing image that haunts me as I fly towards this volcanic speck just over 600km east of Mauritius....
...“Here was a little speck of Britain pulsing with data billions of times over, right across the planet, largely unheralded outside its industry,” James Ashton writes in his sprightly corporate history....
...Equality is still a speck on the horizon, but at least the journey is picking up pace. ★★★★☆ berliner-philharmoniker.de...
...“And going to the Moon will not compare with that first crew that goes to Mars, and watches the Earth disappear until it’s just a small speck of light.”...
...Had the world followed France’s “dash for nuclear” after the 1973 oil crisis, climate change would be a speck on the horizon. John Doherty Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK...
...Sited on a speck of an island, it consists of a villa with five suites and five further bungalows on its 200m of beach....
...In later life, Birrell tells us, John shunned relationships, recognition and material goods in order to channel “every last available speck of time and energy into making art”....
...A storage unit larger than my first flat in London — and a second bedroom that used to be the master — houses roughly 3,000 items, including Christian Lacroix haute couture ball gowns, a wasp-waisted John...
...Highlight: John Outram’s 1986 “Temple of Storms” pumping station lights up an otherwise rather severe stretch of the river....
...After clinching primaries in Florida and elsewhere on Tuesday, Joe Biden is now less his competitor in that race than a receding speck on the horizon....
...Mazara’s ivory stones contain specks of eternity....
...“Talks with Pompeo in Berlin would not have achieved a breakthrough on any front,” said Ulrich Speck of the German Marshall Fund. “All the dossiers are stuck.”...
...Investors want Uber's Thain show off the road CtW Investment Group, which works with union-sponsored pension funds, has called on Uber to remove John Thain, the former Merrill Lynch chief executive, from...
...Others include John Donahoe, the CEO of ServiceNow and formerly of eBay. “He has conviction and authority, which I think works for people.” And April Underwood, Slack’s chief product officer....
...I envisage myself drifting off the pace, a flailing and rapidly disappearing speck in the boat’s wake....
...Our vehicles were tiny specks in that epic landscape, and even they laboured for lack of oxygen....
...“John 1, verses 16-18,” she barks into her iPhone’s Siri app. The verses appear on screen. “Now say the verse, Axella,” she says to her daughter, who’s in fifth grade....
...We examine the strange tentacle-shaped microglia under a microscope, streaming towards a speck of fibre that has contaminated the culture....
...The cosmos in Jacobsen’s bestselling novel is a speck of land off Norway’s north-western coast on which three generations of the Barrøy family grapple with poverty, isolation and nature....
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...That afternoon we passed Eton College, Windsor Castle and Runnymede, where King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215....
...This has to be picked out, speck by tiny speck, or it will grow exponentially and smother just about every living thing. The terrace needs weeding. Plants need repotting....
...A few minutes later, we were on the second lift and I was regretting going for the three-quarter-length long johns rather than full-length ones....
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