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...Writing about sepulchres in 1809, Mary Shelley’s father, William Godwin, lamented that tombstones were being shuffled off like stubble, ready for next year’s crop....
...One minute he is examining the philosophy of the Stoics, the next pondering Goethe or Shelley....
...Such visible mending is the approach taken by Shelley Zetuni of Sewingsmith....
...In 1817, in the nearby Euganean Hills, Shelley began a famous poem on the need for green islands in the gloomy waters of human life....
...We drove over the Golden Gate Bridge, sunroof open, hair entangled in the wind....
...AI featured heavily in Jeanette Winterson’s 2019 Frankissstein, a reimagining of Mary Shelley’s gothic classic; in 2021 she returns to the subject in a series of essays 12 Bytes (Jonathan Cape, June)....
...The Gore, 190 Queen’s Gate, London SW7....
...Alex Tabarrok, another member of the team, added: “Bill Gates is doing the right thing but even Gates can’t do it all. Governments are acting too slowly....
...The gates of universities should be open to Chinese students — except when they are seeking to learn how to build an arsenal for modern war....
...The last word goes to my friend Shelley....
...Once you let them inside the gates, nothing prevents them from poisoning the well.” The idea of creating a cross-border law enforcement co-operation body stretches back a century....
...An “odious swamp” is how Frankenstein author Mary Shelley once described Kentish Town....
...Mary [Shelley’s] Frankenstein’s monster is now a system that one can’t control — growth for its own sake.” Gormley is genuinely angry, at least in his rather English polite and thoughtful way....
...We were shown around by Thomas Lorain, a French archaeologist who has been uncovering a maze of gates, barracks and bazaars....
...The 13-Storey Treehouse, by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, Macmillan, RRP£5.99 Looking for the next Wimpy Kid, Captain Underpants or Tom Gates? Look no further....
...“Si, si,” the men said, ushering us forwards, before shaking our hands and driving off, leaving us standing, agog, in front of a pair of enormous wrought-iron gates to which, for two nights, we were to keep...
...Unfortunately, we then glide into another boat, the side of the lock, and the back gate. “They don’t open automatically, you know”, the lock keeper helpfully observes....
...I ask about the sequel, where the pair retrace Shelley and Byron’s travels in Italy....
...Microsoft founder Bill Gates took an interest and the Gates Foundation donated $1.5m, and has now committed $4m. Google contributed $2m. Netflix founder Reed Hastings gave $3m....
...Many of them, not just Keats and Shelley, died tragically young....
...“The Shelleys and the Mozarts and the Hans Andersens are remembered, not the financiers and the bankers.” The challenge has not changed....
...From the moment I was handed the single sheet menu at A16, an extremely fashionable and popular restaurant on Chestnut Street in the very cool Marina district of San Francisco close to the Golden Gate Bridge...
...The primary profit generator of the division is landfill gate fees, which rose 6.3 per cent to £55.6m. Operating profit was up 10.9 per cent at £24.4m....
...The company said the trading environment was worsened by lower farm gate prices paid for milk, delays to government subsidy payouts to farmers, and reduced demand for animal feed as the mild winter meant...
...BAA attributed the shortfall to the London bombings in July, the Gate Gourmet catering staff industrial dispute at Heathrow and a slowing UK economy. BAA?s cost-cutting programme led to ?...
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