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...Alan Shepard had 3,600 hours of flying experience; Yuri Gagarin 230. But the Soviet cosmonauts were united, said one of their number, Pavel Popovich, in being “the 20 healthiest men on the planet”....
...Later in the year, The Diaries of Alan Rickman (Canongate, October) promise to be a “spiky, gossipy and incredibly funny” account of the actor’s life....
...Susan Collins, the Maine Republican, and Mitt Romney, the Utah Republican, are publicly opposing her appointment to the Fed....
...“We’re busier now than we’ve ever been,” says Shawn Simmons of G Simmons in Walsall, one of nine family members working at the factory....
...Alan Budd, former MPC member Looser, if anything, by 25 basis points, but it may not change at all. Willem Buiter, Citigroup, Global Chief Economist Nothing will change....
...Christopher Pissarides, Regius Professor of Economics, London School of Economics I expect to see a third year of decent growth....
...Alan Clarke, Economist, Scotiabank Clearly the UK recovery has been disproportionately skewed towards consumer spending....
...Alan Clarke, Economist, Scotiabank a) will struggle to impose his planned spending cuts and revenues will fall short of expectations My biggest fear for the public finances is that the £16bn or so that...
...Alan Clarke, Economist, Scotiabank Just by announcing the date of the referendum is likely to have an impact on the data....
...The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth, by Tom Burgis, William Collins, RRP£20/PublicAffairs, RRP$27.99 The book’s thesis is conveyed by its subtitle...
...Sleepwalkers (Penguin, 2012) and Max Hastings’ Catastrophe (William Collins)....
...Christopher Fowler …………………………………………………………….....
...Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, by Jim Collins and Morten T Hansen, Random House Business Books, RRP£25 Collins, author of business classics such as Good...
...Alan Baxter, engineer and for services to conservation. Celia Birtwell, fashion designer. Christopher Clark, non-executive chairman, Urenco, the nuclear group. Bryan Ferry, singer-songwriter....
...Christopher MacLehose, publisher. Wayne McGregor, choreographer. Steve McQueen, for services to the visual arts. Michael Oglesby, for services to business and to charity....
...Tom Greatrex, Albert Owen, John Robertson, Alan Whitehead. Dan Byles, Philip Lee, Christopher Pincher, Laura Sandys. Sir Robert Smith. Procedure committee: Roger Gale....
...The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here, by Lynda Gratton, Collins, RRP£18.99, 384 pages As futurology goes, Gratton’s book is more practical than most....
...His cellist son Christopher acts as a gentle foil. Between them they amusingly blend the genres of misery memoir and Mediterranean escapist idyll....
...Born To Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen By Christopher McDougall Profile £16.99, 304 pages Born To Run argues that humans are “born to run”....
...Alan Greenspan’s interview with the FT, in which he said US house prices were likely to fall “significantly”, didn’t help....
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