Hints and tips:
...It is extremely abrasive, presenting a potential hazard to both human health and to machinery and must be handled with care....
...As always, drop your story ideas to me at sid.v@ft.com and have a great week....
...The marketing dream of a Messi v Ronaldo World Cup final is still alive, at least for the next few hours....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...Everyone remembers Richard Nixon desperately flashing the V-for-victory sign before boarding the presidential helicopter on the White House lawn — a reminder that no man is bigger than the law....
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...The rape resulted in a pregnancy, and Allred returned home to the US to have an illegal abortion (this was before Roe v Wade)....
...Pay to plan your child’s education Being a pushy, helicopter parent or a “tiger mother” may get results but it is time consuming....
...My mind raced for a suitable Indian name — any Indian name — beginning with V. Vikram? Vijay?...
...The guides were so nervous – I think they wanted to show that they no longer hanged Paper Tigers [counter revolutionaries]....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...The new Basel III capital adequacy rules are supposed to take care of the problem of dodgy categories of core capital....
...The residents of South Africa’s winelands seem to care very much about their appearance....
...I cross the fake lawn and sit on a bench flanked by dwarf shrubs. The high chain-wire encourages the suicidal to take their business elsewhere....
...The Honda’s 4-stroke v-twin churns out a whopping 17bhp, giving it a top speed of around 8mph....
...Why should they care about a newspaper from London? The New York Mets only gave me a ticket to one game, and for the stand, not the press box....
...But there was an insight into why so many companies in so many different sectors fear the sight of Microsoft parking tanks on lawns....
...Dr P.V. Unnikrishnan is a doctor with Action Aid, a development charity. He is working in Sri Lanka co-ordinating psycho-social care for tsunami survivors As told to Ray Marcelo...
...As a child, my father listened to Jack Dempsey v Georges Carpentier on a "cat's whisker" radio....
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