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...Along the banks of the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, giant cranes whir overhead as thousands of construction workers toil away at what will be one of the largest plastic factories in the world...
...Fur is deep rooted in New York — so much so that the official state seal features a pair of beavers....
...Their bare torsos still showed traces of mud from when we had waded upriver the day before in search of beaver dams....
...“There are people in absolutely dire situations,” said Chris Beavers, a political strategist based in Hudson Forest, in the west of Houston....
...It has committed to a ban on ivory sales, ruled out legalising fox hunting, trialled the release of beavers into the wild, promised to make abattoirs install CCTV and to consider a ban on puppy sales by...
...A minute later, in a swirl of cloud and snow, the aircraft slammed into nearby Beaver Mountain, killing Mitchell and the plane’s pilot. That was 17 years ago....
...Michael Flynn, the former US military intelligence chief who advises Donald Trump, sat two places away from Vladimir Putin at RT’s 10th anniversary party last year....
...Derick Beavers, 32, who grew up in Canfield, says it was “hell – I don’t know how else to put it”....
...The last of these marked his producing debut, made for Beaver Films, the company he formed in 1959 with actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes....
...From the island’s raised 11th-century Viking fort, you can see wild deer, hare, beaver and elk....
...The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year, by Sue Townsend, Michael Joseph, RRP£18.99, 448 pages Sue Townsend has surely overtaken playwright Joe Orton to become Leicester’s most famous literary child....
...There is some nice humour from Mr and Mrs Beaver (Paul Barnhill and Sophie-Louise Dann) and a lovely performance from Forbes Masson as Mr Tumnus....
...Gucci’s Rimbaud-inspired redingotes boasted beaver on the outside, astrakhan inside; Versace’s rococo rock star leather motorbike jackets were bestrewn with gold chains; and Etro’s tailored devoré frock...
...Dimitri Elfes of new boutique On Pedder spots a trend for fur, not just on mink coats but perhaps worked into a youthful baseball jacket in black beaver from Givenchy....
...Amik the beaver, Mukmuk the marmot and Millie the echidna have since come and gone. A few stick in the memory....
...I first heard it from Michael Foot in 1987, wandering round his Blaenau Gwent constituency with a knobbly stick like a doddery country squire....
...The Winter Vault By Anne Michaels Bloomsbury, £16.99 Anxiously awaited by readers of Michaels’ award-winning debut, her follow-up is a tender meditation on loss and authenticity....
...But if the pointy-heads who beaver away at Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency, are right, then the UK is different in more ways than one....
...Terry Beaver as Alma’s father, Reverend Winemiller, is the flip side: humourless certainty....
...Michael Doser, one of the CERN team said: “We have taken the first step towards a novel treatment for cancer…Although it still has to be compared with existing methods, it is a breakthrough in this area...
...Failure (Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and John Kerry) happens when they don’t....
...I Was a Kamikaze might suggest a ghost writer, but The Romance of the Beaver gives free rein to the imagination....
...Last year European defence contractor EADS wanted to meet Michael Wynne, head of Pentagon acquisitions, to talk about air force refuelling tankers....
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