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...Later, while working for Norman Foster — himself a space enthusiast since he was charmed by the Dan Dare cartoon in the Eagle magazine as a boy — was involved with a study for a space station on Mars....
...Ascending the long escalators of the Pompidou Centre to visit a show about Norman Foster feels a little strange....
...Doing the same for human beings was merely another moonshot, like developing self-driving cars or landing on Mars....
...Agronomist Norman Borlaug was hailed as a hero for developing new varieties of dwarf wheat that doubled or trebled crop yields....
...“And I am never going to send a rocket to Mars.” He pauses....
...“You know, ‘I was a super soldier teleporting to Mars and enlisted into a secret space programme on the dark side of the moon.’...
...He's had opportunities, in previous moments, over the course of the year, to really criticise Trump or to take him on, such as the Mar-a-Lago raid, the January 6 hearings....
...When FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago resort last month, they seized 27 boxes containing thousands of documents, including 54 marked “secret” and 18 marked “top secret”....
...The southern part of the woods lay within the manor of Croydon, which had been a possession of the Archbishops of Canterbury since before the Norman Conquest....
...Yet descendants of Norman conquerors, philandering kings and royal suck-ups continue to sit on the red benches....
...But while such locations offer a chance to shrink into the shadows, they are not immune from the malady that mars the dining experience in Germany — slow, surly or non-existent service....
...room of architectural models from a competition to design a new structure for the planet, weird mounds of red Martian earth piled over 3D-printed armatures and inflatable pods, including one design from Norman...
...The huts were restaurants, and one, Vista al Mar, was open. We walked out to join a family wrestling with small children and a rum bottle, and eight men lunching in their work boots....
...“If you’d dropped in from Mars, you’d struggle to work out whether Cummings or Johnson was the prime minister,” says one person involved in talks at No 10....
...It was newly built by the then unknown architects Team 4: Norman Foster, Wendy Cheesman, Richard Rogers and Su Brumwell. It’s here alongside reproduction fetish furniture and the famous phallus....
...The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach was designed by Marion Sims Wyeth in 1941, 14 years after he had completed Mar-a-Lago a little way up the Florida coastline....
...Its systems are in use in a number of parts of the world, as well as on Nasa’s Mars Rover....
...The duty-free shop under a huge airport roof designed by Norman Foster or Richard Rogers became its embodiment....
...It is easy to see the journey from Barlow’s shed or Decimus Burton’s Palm House to Norman Foster’s Gherkin or his Thames-side office and Richard Rogers’ practice RSH+P’s Neo Bankside....
...He also hosted Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, at his company-owned Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida....
...In April 1982, at the suggestion of Norman Tebbit, Parkinson became a key member of Margaret Thatcher's five-strong Falklands War Cabinet....
...“This royal throne of kings, this sceptr’d isle,/ This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars” — the lines are so familiar, the images so wonderful....
...Jessye Norman....
...A former Mars executive, Mr Leighton teamed up with Archie Norman at the debt-burdened Asda in 1992. He became chief executive in 1996 and helped sell the group to Walmart of the US in 1999....
...McLaren, the luxury sports car maker, opened a new £50m Norman Foster-designed factory in Woking, Surrey, two years ago....
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