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...In London, Chinese artist Xu Yang brings her own drag performances to the canvas with rococo opulence....
...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Alondra Nelson is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study....
...Additional reporting by Yuan Yang This story has been amended to show that Newport wafer fab is a semiconductor plant, not a chipmaker....
...A focus on the politics of cloth explores wax prints and commemorative fabrics, including one made in the early 1990s following the release of Nelson Mandela....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...Andrew Yang, a candidate for the Democratic party’s New York mayoral nomination in 2021, said he would urge Dolan to sell the team....
...Lisa Yang, Loulou Studio, Allude, Alabaste Cashmere and Joseph also offer great knit options....
...Nasa administrator Bill Nelson called cost-plus contracts such as this “the old way of doing business” when he testified before Congress in May....
...She was literally a rainbow, a symbol that brightened up a room: and whether that person was Nelson Mandela or Martin McGuinness, she had a magnetism that made all sorts of people smile....
...In 1973, with the Roe v....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...But China was not afraid of “finger-wagging”, said Adam Nelson, an Asia expert at the National Democratic Institute, adding that Beijing was worried about “losing business, prestige and respect”....
...The reputation of Yang Xiaoming would also be burnished. The chairman of Sinopharm’s vaccine business since 2015, Yang is one of the public faces of China’s Covid-19 research....
...“It’s easy — and largely accurate — to present the 2021 commodity outlook as a V-shaped vaccine trade,” said Goldman Sachs in a recent report....
...The act largely explored the immigrant experience — “What’s Roe v Wade? Two ways of coming to the United States” — but it also packed the occasional punch for the US politicians....
...Living with China’s emerging tech giantsTrying to wall off Chinese technology from the rest of the world is impractical and counter-productive, argues the FT’s Yuan Yang....
...Others to be used include the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and possibly Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...Separately, Yang Jiechi, China’s top diplomat, has warned the US not to interfere in Hong Kong and Xinjiang....
...What will be interesting will be the role of US companies, like Qualcomm, or US-originated research projects, like RISC-V, in helping Chinese companies achieve their goals....
...Additional reporting by Yuan Yang in Beijing...
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