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...economics (The Diff) — The daring ruse that exposed China’s campaign to steal American secrets (NYTimes) — Libel tourism (LRB) — Slack’s new ChatGPT bot will talk to your colleagues for you (The Verge) — Crane...
...The simple forms convey architectural rigour and a “constructivist manifesto” inspired by the lamps designed for the reading-rooms of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France....
...In the centre of the image there’s a crane, a magpie, a mallard and some geese. A green parrot and a black raven are perched beside a hoopoe, to whom all the other birds give their attention....
...Auster’s most recent book was a biography of Stephen Crane; in 2017 his latest novel, the epic 4321, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize....
...Salman Rushdie was a young student reading history at King’s College when he came across a curious tale from Islam’s early days that blurred the boundaries between God and Satan....
...One wing is now a bookshop where talks, readings and concerts take place....
...Crane your neck up beyond the trees to admire César Pelli’s God-bothering glass finger....
...Meanwhile, cranes are already busily installing another plant, ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy’s Golden Pass, in south-eastern Texas....
...The initial stage in the Local 40 application is a written test, where hopefuls must answer 20 questions (some maths, some reading comprehension) in 20 minutes....
...The individual blocks of the Garden Quarter were named from readings of Dan Brown and The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail: Odessey, Templar....
...We need taller cranes, newer cranes. Unions have been highly opposed to automating in the United States,” he says....
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...He got sober and started reading. (“I’m dyslexic,” he explains. “I’ve become a voracious reader. But I’m really slow.”)...
...Earlier this month, David Crane, former chief executive of power producer NRG Energy, debuted a $200m Spac to fight climate change....
...What else we’re reading Canada’s housing market buzz is back Toronto’s skyline is dotted with more cranes than America’s three-largest cities of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago combined....
...(Wired) The crane wife. I loved CJ Hauser’s intimate and thought-provoking essay on how we hide our needs in romantic relationships....
...But when asked what caused the collapse, a local farmer who gave his name as Bo points to a crane mounted on a boat mid-river — about a kilometre away — that is mining sand....
...The housing PMI reading dropped to 51.9 from 53.4 in December. The slowdown in construction activity brought employment growth to a virtual stop....
...We sit on the rooftop terrace or by the river reading books; we sleep in exquisitely decorated bedrooms; we eat healthy soups and curries prepared by our private chef; and we venture on short outings by...
...Bradby Blake received a classical education at Westminster School, heavy on bible reading but lacking in any botanical education....
...For one shot, a crane was needed to hoist the camera on to a balcony. The results were worth it....
...It’s almost a listening experience, as well as a very visual reading experience, and the overall effect is a deeper intimacy with Abu and Karl’s complex inner-worlds. “You could see it....
...What’s on your reading list?...
...But also on display is the heavy, bolted door of Oscar Wilde’s cell in Reading gaol: a stand-in for an entire epoch of oppression....
...Earlier this month, analysts warned of a banknote printing capacity glut once Massachusetts-based Crane, the main supplier of US dollars, opens a state-of-the-art printing facility in Malta next year....
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