Hints and tips:
...When Blount sings on “The Downward Road” about an “old grasping ruler, thought he was doin’ mighty well” who finds out he has “made a bed in hell”, it resonates with William Gibson’s Jackpot trilogy, set...
...The outstanding questions for 2023 surround the sustainability of these proliferating fairs for a tired planet....
...In cryptography terms, they’d hit the jackpot....
...BB wanted to make RedTube the most well-known porn site on the planet. He had big plans. He wanted control over the adult industry....
...“Money’s no object over there,” said Shawn, a West Palm Beach native, sounding as though the nearby island were a different planet....
...In the words of Paul and Anne Ehrlich, who warned of the “population bomb” more than 50 years ago, infiltrating homo sapiens amounts to “winning a jackpot”. Human encroachment is another risk factor....
...When the creative director of one of the coolest brands on the planet contacts you, it’s hard to stay calm,” says Oliver Laverack, co-founder and designer of J Laverack Bicycles....
...His latest two novels, Peripheral and Agency, which form part of an ongoing trilogy, are set against the backdrop of the “jackpot”, an unspecified apocalypse that has overwhelmed our planet....
...In time, CVC also envisages the creation of a “Club World Cup”, a money-spinning tournament involving the best sides on the planet. World Rugby’s response is, well, pragmatic....
...When it comes to searching for extraterrestrial life, this carries the whiff of a jackpot....
...The planet is about to be transfixed by that traditional summer sport, football. In the meantime, a load of three-year-olds will be making a brief attempt to get public attention....
...In 2005 Doris Dorrie created a Munich scandal by making everyone impersonate refugees from Planet of the Apes and Star Wars....
...It’s got a huge population and there is no other country on the planet more culturally nationalistic than the Chinese....
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