Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Sophia Loren had plainly been having a secluded morning but even without her it was an anniversary ride from heaven....
...Is flying to Tuscany to tear around the hills doing as little as 10 miles per gallon quite, well, the answer?...
...“It has the dusty feel of an old Sophia Loren movie . . . or of a place still in its infancy, like a child that you cannot know how it will grow up. It vastly exceeded my expectations.”...
...Fast-forward a century, jump south, well over a thousand miles to Italy — after all summer is a geographical phenomenon, which England gets all too little of — and Dolce & Gabbana’s vision of the perfect...
...Weeks after my arrival in Piran last year, I chanced upon a hidden beach a few miles to the east of the town....
...The occasion was designed to coincide with a civic ceremony: the weekend took place as Sophia Loren, the 81-year-old actress and honorary Neapolitan (she was born in Rome and grew up 30 miles or so beyond...
...Mr Piccard took just over 48 hours to fly the 2,694km (1,674 miles) from Cairo....
...Loren Thompson, analyst at the Virginia-based Lexington Institute, says low prices for oil and other commodities are affecting the readiness of some businesses to pay for executive travel....
...The aircraft, which can fly 7,500 nautical miles non-stop as the extended-range (ER) version, cost up to $66.5m for the ER — and demand is buoyant....
...A consortium of Lockheed Martin, the world’s biggest military contractor by sales, and Boeing is the frontrunner, according to Loren Thompson, an analyst at the Virginia-based Lexington Institute think-tank...
...Fulling Mill, The Weir, Whitchurch, Hampshire, UK, £2.95m Where Just outside the village of Whitchurch in Hampshire, 12 miles north of Winchester, 24 miles north of Southampton airport and 50 miles southwest...
...“This is the first new inhabited space craft that Nasa has developed in a generation,” says Loren Thompson, an analyst at the Virginia-based Lexington Institute....
...At a press conference on Friday barely 20 miles from where the co-pilot of his company’s SpaceShipTwo spacecraft had died, George Whitesides, the chief executive of Virgin Galactic, looking shaken, gave...
...“It’s like your car airbag going off at 65 miles per hour,” he says....
...Elstree’s location – 12 miles from Soho, the film world’s favoured post-production centre – was also crucial, she added....
...At the heart of the problem facing companies like Cessna, according to Loren Thompson, an industry analyst for the Virginia-based Lexington Institute, is newly intensified competition....
...The land, 365 acres of it, lay in a quiet and sparsely populated corner of Louisiana: nothing but pine trees for miles around....
...Loren Thompson, a defence analyst at the Lexington Institute, said it was important to realise that the GAO was challenging the process, not the result of the competition, a point also made by Louis Gallois...
...The first one was the Grammy award that I was given with Bill Clinton and Sophia Loren, when we made a new recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. That was environmental, too....
International Edition