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...Among the materials used for The Exploded View Beyond Building — on show at Kamp C laboratory near Antwerp until late autumn — is a prefab system of load-bearing walls made from compressed straw waste and...
...Ricky Gervais, a far subtler comedian, is also ostentatiously taking on the joke police with aggressively offensive routines....
...In quoting C P Snow’s Reith lectures of 1959 on The Two Cultures, Mr Pennant-Rea highlights the current parlous state of British politics....
...Which brings us to Ricky Gervais, his co-star in The Office, who has now fully outgrown the UK and perhaps his own head....
...They were addressed by comedian and Yes campaigner Elaine C Smith....
...Today the NYRB, owned since 1984 by Rea Hederman, is said to have made profit since its third year, has a circulation of 143,000, and, with the help of a popular blog, its readership is growing....
...He made two $500,000 donations through his company, Contran, to a group supporting Ricky Perry, the Texas governor, and another $500,000 to backers of Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker....
...Old Street’s “Silicon Roundabout” was recently seized on by government ministers as an example of a cluster of successful urban innovation....
...Steve Sun, a principal in Goldman’s private equity firm in Hong Kong, is set to join TPG’s China group alongside Sing Wang, also a former Goldman executive, and Ricky Lau....
...false starts early on Tuesday, scientists just before 1pm local time brought together the two proton beams that had been running in alternate directions in the collider’s 27km loop in a vacuum at minus 271°C....
...At one moment he is an ordinary accountant; the next he is hilariously trying to persuade Chris Rea to adopt the stage name Benny Santini....
...I’ve supported English boxers like Ricky Hatton. I watch English football on TV all the time.” (Thankfully he stops short of saying “Some of my best friends are English”.)...
...Supporting this idea, says Mr Rea, is the willingness of AES’s banks in the past few weeks “to lend us significant sums to help our expansion projects, and at very reasonable rates”....
...And what of the monstrous boss, David Brent, played by Ricky Gervais?...
...Also out of the medal hunt was 800m runner Ricky Soos, who exceeded all expectations by progressing from his heat earlier in the week with a personal best....
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