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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...In 2002, Li invested in BYD, then a little-known maker of electric batteries....
...In downtown Little Rock, a chorus echoes around the room at Willy D’s Rock & Roll Piano Bar as groups of friends clutching beers and each other sing along to the soul hit “Stand By Me”....
...Except for ageing — he is now, at 74, the court’s most senior judge — little about him has changed....
...Having previously been forbidden from going to university, now estranged from her parents, she enrolled to study film at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos in Mexico City, but quickly...
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...The project has covered “rust-belt” cities such as Detroit, one of the first urban areas to reorganise around the automobile, but also places such as Little Rock, Arkansas and Houston, Texas....
...of a little twist....
...“Textiles, paper mills, lumber mills, all these places in southern and eastern Arkansas,” said Mervin Jebaraj, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas....
...Panicos Demetriades, professor of financial economics at the University of Leicester: I think this is unlikely....
...I assume, given the leaving-do concert and the abortive music career (which he quit for the not-very-rock-‘n’-roll option of studying commerce at Edinburgh University) that he must be a passionate musician...
...I was judging an illustration thing at the V&A and I thought, ‘I’ll get there early because they’ve got one box of jewellery that’s been found.’”...
...A little way off, there are rocks. In front of me, a figure wearing what looks like a north African djellaba trudges alone through the landscape....
...It’s 25 years ago this month that the boy from Hope, Arkansas, was elected president of the US — an event that he celebrated from the steps of the Old State House in Little Rock with the resonant pay-off...
...And the most vulnerable are the poor — those living in areas that, according to a new study by the University of Arkansas, already have an “ecology of disadvantage”....
...Pose, performance and practised femininity were part of her act from the beginning. In 1952, the 19-year-old Moorman was crowned Miss City Beautiful in her home town of Little Rock, Arkansas....
...None of that heartache is evident when I meet the family at their home in Little Rock, Arkansas, on a hot and humid Saturday morning....
...Williams is spending the spring at Leiden University in the Netherlands....
...He is convinced he is the president-in-waiting of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest nation. But this is of little consequence if he can’t set foot on his native soil. Katumbi’s life is a swirl of rumours....
...Mr Burgon was the first member of his family to attend university, studying English literature at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he chaired the university’s Labour club....
...As a one-time policymaker at the European Central Bank, Panicos Demetriades, professor of financial economics at the University of Leicester and former governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus, felt sympathy...
...(FT) In the news Battery power Chemists at Cambridge university have developed lithium-air batteries, offering the chance to squeeze five times more energy into the same space....
...The library will serve as a monument to Mr Obama’s presidency and, like those of George W Bush in Dallas and Bill Clinton in Little Rock, Arkansas, house artefacts, papers and exhibitions relating to his...
...Disposing of a single barrel of water costs at least 25 cents and as much as $1, say industry executives....
...It is hard to imagine Robinson, a world-class scientist and the first female professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford (she broke the same glass ceiling at Cambridge in 2001), feeling daunted by...
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