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...A site close to Kruger National Park in South Africa is becoming a testing ground for US attempts to fight China’s global dominance in critical minerals....
...These shelters will be part of the multisensory National Autistic Society Garden, a collaboration with landscape designer Sophie Parmenter....
...Mycelium’s fungal root structure can break down and detoxify waste such as asphalt shingles, rubber and gypsum, creating new composite materials that can be used for insulation and acoustic tiles....
...“I’ve turned the colours of paa sin’s woven cotton into a national flag . . . Not a macho flag, like Russia’s or Thailand’s, but something more ladylike. A new flag for the people.”...
...Here in Zamalek, an ecosystem of galleries has flourished: among the players are Ubuntu, Tintera, Art Talks and, a bit further out in Maadi, the Gypsum Gallery....
...To solve the problem, the carts were then stored in purpose-built cucumber houses, glazed with sheets of silicate mica, selenite (a crystalline form of gypsum) or with a translucent oiled cloth known as...
...The National Museum of Qatar, though, is not a metaphor....
...As for representing her country, Rothschild is amusing yet perceptive on the way that the Venice Biennale demands its artists take on a national identity almost as if they were sportspeople....
...In December John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, accused China of using “bribes, opaque agreements and the strategic use of debt to hold states in Africa captive to Beijing’s...
...Near the sea, the sand is covered with a dirty crust of black and red gypsum; a car crunching over the surface will leave tracks that will remain visible for 100 years....
...She added that Myanmar would begin a national verification process of refugees who have fled from Rakhine state....
...Last year Lone Star acquired a gypsum wallboard making business from Lafarge, the world’s biggest cement maker....
...Industrially mixed into plasterboard, gypsum has since taken the world by storm....
...There was once a windmill on the great gypsum mound known as the butte Montmartre – Van Gogh painted it....
...Aware of the importance of Iraq’s rich archaeological heritage, the government brought forward the reopening of the national museum in Baghdad....
...Ralfs Jansons, director at fund manager NCH Capital, which is building the Gypsum Factory, a luxury riverside apartment development in Riga, warns the national population is “bleeding” and this could harm...
...“Mendoza produces a fifth of Argentina’s oil,” says Miguel Galuccio, chief executive of YPF, the national oil company....
...An hour south of Carrizozo, near the town of Alamogordo, you turn into the White Sands National Monument....
...Aliko sold it at a 60 per cent profit without even touching a fleck of gypsum. It is tempting to see a formative experience in that trade....
...Gypsum for fertilizers, home textile products and even citrus fruits from north Pakistan and Afghanistan can be imported to India....
...“This requires a very intensive intervention,” he said, referring to efforts to pour tonnes of gypsum into a nearby river to bind, neutralise and contain the sludge....
...Anbar has large, mostly unexploited, deposits of natural gas, gypsum, dolomite and phosphate....
...Luckily, ceilings were out of reach “they couldn’t knock them down or take them out …so they just covered them up,” he says, noting that the hotel’s octagonal glass rotunda, covered by gypsum board for decades...
...A few cannons poke above the parapets while the national flag stands proud against a clear sky....
...“We need to strengthen our supranational institutions, not attack them....
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