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...Like d’Holbach, famous for hosting a twice-weekly salon that attracted Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, they entertain clients here....
...In spring the pink cherry blossoms are startling, and there are fewer of the tourists who throng the tidal basin beside the Jefferson Memorial. Families picnic beside the water....
...X-Ray Architecture , by Beatriz Colomina, Lars Müller, RRP£30/$40 Colomina argues that the key ideas about modern architecture emerged in parallel with advances in medical technology and that the sanatorium...
...The location of Ray Kurzweil’s San Francisco apartment must be kept confidential, warns his aide, for “important security reasons”....
...Toting Mary Beard’s SPQR through the X-ray line at O’Hare airport, I was pulled aside by a security guard who seemed convinced that it was a hollowed-out way of transporting weaponry on to a flight....
...When I moved to London a decade ago, I would take a break for lunch and think of Thomas Jefferson....
...Washington and Jefferson were leaders of the American Revolution. Lincoln completed that business two generations later when he defeated the slave south in the American civil war....
...In 1949, the neurosurgeon Geoffrey Jefferson argued that only once a machine has written a sonnet and, crucially, knows that it has written it will we be able to say that “machine equals brain”....
...The iMac is as antediluvian as the Valentine; it’s the last gasp of the cathode-ray vacuum tube monitor, which has given way to the flat screen just as the Valentine gave way to the laptop and the iPad....
...But the president was not above taking out his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, to Ray’s Hell Burger, an excellent suburban spot serving the American national dish, or smooching at Ben’s Chili Bowl,...
...“If I had to think who would be most appalled by him, I would say James Madison and Thomas Jefferson because he has no respect for our system of government. He wants all power for himself.”...
...Coachella: Van Buren Ave & Avenue 50 Murrieta: Margarita Rd & Murrieta Hot Springs Rd Murrieta: Newport & Murrieta Murrieta: Nutmeg & Jackson San Jacinto: W Esplanade Ave & S Sanderson Ave La Quinta: Jefferson...
...Second, the re-election of Ray Nagin as mayor in May ended months of uncertainty about who would occupy City Hall for the next four years....
...“I was unable to get [Governor] Blanco and Mayor Ray [Nagin] to work together.”...
...Ray Nagin failed to complete a mandatory evacuation, leading to hundreds of deaths....
...In New Orleans’ Jefferson parish, which has over 400,000 residents, a massive operation to restore utilities was launched. A few areas already have power....
...Resistance is one of several issues that worry Tom Jefferson, a flu specialist....
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