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...In cities like Medellín, Colombia, an increasing number of people live in informal dwellings that are especially vulnerable to earthquakes....
...A picture of the late filmmaker Derek Jarman’s Dungeness garden, by Jarman’s friend the celebrated photographer Howard Sooley, provides a prescient eco-alternative to English gardens....
...“Within a month after the start of the war on October 7, all essential drugs and their known alternatives became unavailable in Gaza,” said Ali....
...DA leader John Steenhuisen said this week that he was willing to join its ideological rival if the alternative was a “doomsday coalition” between the ANC, Zuma’s party and the radical Economic Freedom Fighters...
...Until 10 December, bathchristmasmarket.co.uk Les Lumières de Noël, Montbéliard As an alternative to Alsace’s well known Christkindelsmärik in Strasbourg, head to Montbéliard for its Lumières de Noël festivities...
...We’ve tried the alternative and it hasn’t been great. The point is to resist the kind of lazy libertarianism that seems indigenous to the American character....
...People are living either in UN shelters, overcrowded apartments, or in tent cities — vast tent cities that they have erected on the street. They have little food. They are exposed to the cold....
...Debating pay is a high-wire act, one that risks entrenching division within the City and provoking a backlash outside it. Plaudits to Hoggett for taking it on. She’ll do well to avoid a clown show....
...The far-right Alternative for Germany is the frontrunner in all three, with 30 per cent or more support....
...“In 50 years there won’t be a single town or city in Russia without a Navalny Square,” she wrote. Ulitskaya serves tea to a guest as her ancestors look on....
...to hire a guide — a mandatory requirement for trekking and all trips outside the cities of Thimphu and Paro....
...When they first launched, these indie fairs, with artists on hand to present their projects, offered a viable alternative to the otherwise staid approach taken by the established fairs, which felt sterile...
...It was a decade of fear of nuclear war, and Vince had dropped out of school to take LSD and join a peace-loving convoy of New Age travellers....
...High Line-style projects show, she says, that we can “think more innovatively” about how to green our densifying cities and provide an alternative to conventional Victorian-inspired parks....
...That makes Paris the potential alternative to London....
...to the author’s mystical masterpiece Invisible Cities....
...The deal to buy Merian for £240mn, a tent pole of Formica’s time at the helm, has so far failed to stem outflows and reverse several years of share price declines....
...Psychedelics and business could make for a bad trip From mushroom-derived psilocybin to LSD, and mescaline to ayahuasca compound DMT, the “psychedelic renaissance” is in full swing....
...Several Chinese pharmaceutical companies are developing mRNA alternatives to the Moderna and BioNTech vaccines, but they have struggled to adapt to new variants....
...It’s a big, brassy, loud City pub and not ashamed to admit it....
...While cities and the south-east of England have boomed, many rural communities continue to be neglected and lack infrastructure....
...In tandem with support with bills, Brussels continues its quest for alternative energy sources....
...A widely lampooned photograph showed her posing next to troops who were lying in a camouflage tent; the minister was dressed as if she had just left the country club....
...It is the image of an alternative Italian life that, at least once during the week, reminds me to treat myself to a leisurely lunch break, a proper pausa pranzo....
...Among the alternatives are apartments and villas, three cruise ships docked in the port, fan villages of prefabricated housing and even purpose-built tents in the desert....
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