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...Cities along the so-called path of totality include Mazatlan, Mexico; San Antonio, Austin and Dallas, Texas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio; Erie, Pennsylvania and Montreal, Quebec....
...Its holdings include a $240mn investment in 300 West Sixth, a 23-storey office building in Austin, Texas, and a $1bn holding in a Blackstone European property fund....
...One demonstrator already arrested is sandwiched on a motorbike between two officers, one of whom shoots at the camera with what appears to be a paintball gun....
...Experts say that one of the easiest vectors for the virus to enter is through visitors and workers, including corrections officers....
...“You can click your fingers and have the head of PetroChina taken into custody,” says Richard McGregor, an analyst at the Lowy Institute in Sydney....
...The officers refused to explain the system to me anyway....
...While I was wrong, the man was from Austin, so there was plenty to discuss....
...John Elferink, then corrections minister and attorney-general of the Northern Territory, rejected a call by the coroner at Langdon’s inquest to scrap the system to prevent a rise in deaths in custody....
...Hughston is convinced that the permits officer does not like “hippie events”....
...end of the spectrum, technology and bioscience-focused cities such as Austin, Texas, San Francisco, and Raleigh, North Carolina have comfortably surpassed their previous peaks....
...Travis is one of 254 Texas counties but it contains Austin, home not just of the capitol (and thus of the state’s politicians) but also of the state university (and thus of its upper-crust left)....
...This article is subject to a correction and has been amended. Sam Jones is the FT’s defence and security editor. To comment on this piece, please email magazineletters@ft.com...
...The intervention, King argued, could prevent a necessary and overdue market correction....
...US officials say they have redoubled efforts to train Iraqi correction officers and to build humane facilities to eliminate existing abuses and prepare for a transition....
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