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...According to a poll published last month by Opinium on behalf of the campaign group Dignity in Dying, 75 per cent of people living in the UK support assisted dying....
...It’s going to look like doctors assisted by models, models giving doctors feedback: ‘Have you thought about this? Are you missing this? Should we run this test?’...
...When the Indus river burst its banks during heavy rains and flash flooding in late August, Bushra Sarfaraz’s three goats drowned and she lost her home for a second time....
...House, Petoskey, Michigan, $14.999mn Where On Walloon Lake, which empties into Lake Michigan via the Bear river....
...In 1648 the Hoogheemraadschap Lekdijk Bovendams — which as the name indicates, was responsible for a 20 mile stretch of the river Lek, a branch of the Rhine — borrowed 1,000 Carolus guilders from a local...
...Salesforce, the San Francisco-based tech company, plans to put its name on a new glass tower it will occupy along the Chicago River....
...Set on the banks of the Reuss river, the 300-year-old chalet oozes charm, with its exposed timber beams, geothermal heating and antique skis mounted on the walls....
...For most locals, understandably their main preoccupation appeared to be the rising costs of living....
...Two weeks ago, Felicity Irons and her five-strong team of craftspeople waded out into the River Great Ouse at 7am, dodging the unseasonable rainstorms, to chop down swaths of reeds — the last of the harvest...
...“Every owner will be able to see the Manhattan skyline, the East River and the Statue of Liberty.”...
...One revelation of living in Los Angeles for a period was the beauty of smog....
...It also prides itself on its slow travel philosophy, in contrast to the operators offering rapid circuits of Annapurna or helicopter-assisted treks to Everest base camp....
...But Sindh, which sits at the very end of the Indus River, was hit the hardest. The river overflowing turned Sindhi farmland into a massive lake....
...“They are not safe living along the Thai border any more.” Thailand’s foreign ministry said that most of the people sheltering in the country had voluntarily returned to their places of origin....
...The river is wild,” she replies, in the most Laurie Anderson way possible....
...Watson points to how the Ma’dan build their islands atop fenced-off sections of living reeds, which filter pollutants from the water, protecting its rich ecosystem....
...“It’s thrashing around, and the body is so big that everything will be cleared along the path of the living,” he says....
...who were moved to make way for the dam were coerced into accepting inadequate compensation, provided with poor housing and services at resettlement sites, and given no training in other ways to earn a living...
...Arlene Kuhlmann bought one three years ago, after living in the area since 2013. “It’s a bit like living in a five-star hotel with swimming pool and concierge,” she says....
...Rick Cook was hunting for a cotton-white egg case that the resident praying mantis had spun around a reed in his garden....
...shops, cafés and art galleries, as well as sculpture by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ryan Gander — my children have found the latter’s make excellent climbing frames — all backed by fields of golden reeds...
...“But we never really thought it was going to turn into the wildfire that it did,” says Daman, who assisted Patricia Field on Sex and the City early in his career....
...“Imagine living in a house where swifts swoop over the garden, where the school ‘run’ is a walk alongside a wild-flower meadow buzzing with bumblebees; where cycle paths wind past reed-fringed ponds dancing...
...Against the overgrowth, it has the air of ruins from a lost civilisation, its recesses that once cleaned water now taken over by reeds and rushes....
...We saved up Green Shield stamps and bought an inflatable dinghy that we tried to sail in the reed-infested river. We had endless family meals and we squabbled and read....
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