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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....
...Gqunta took a first degree in sculpture at Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, following it with a masters in fine art at the University of Cape Town....
...Except for ageing — he is now, at 74, the court’s most senior judge — little about him has changed....
...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”....
...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....
...This week it emerged that a $1m donation Ms Parton made to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville at the start of the coronavirus pandemic helped to fund an early-stage trial of one of the most...
...Yet there was little sign of a Keir Factor driving any renewed interest in the Labour party....
...of Alan Moore’s Watchmen....
...Little Prince....
...“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....
...Scientists at Liverpool John Moores University have used ultrasensitive DNA probes to help spot illegal animal material within large cargo consignments at borders, ports and customs posts....
...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...
...Henry Moore, according to his daughter Mary, was “still seeing the landscapes of his childhood” at the end of his life....
...by Henry Moore....
...There is good reason for this to continue in 2020 with unemployment still at rock-bottom and jobs being created for the poorest parts of the economy. That, on balance, should keep the economy growing....
...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...
...Through a window at the top of the café one could see the actual summit of the mountain, a rock half-hidden in mist, and around it, in a suitably illusory kind of climax, burly dim figures clambered mysteriously...
...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”....
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