Hints and tips:
...The Wigram models use vaccination and age data, the effect of public health measures and the real-time effective “R value”, a measure of a disease’s ability to spread between people....
...A recent market theory is that stocks should trade higher because r-star (the neutral rate of interest) is making financial conditions easier....
...Yet the relationship between Walter and Christian was warm and their partnership has obviously benefited both. This was the Albergo’s first winter season for years, Christian’s father Fausto told us....
...Jean Walters takes the opposite view....
...“The key point is that R&AW had been unwilling to take its operations into the west,” said Walter Ladwig, an expert on South Asian security at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank in London....
...Walter Koroshetz co-chairs a nationwide research programme at the US National Institutes of Health, designed to uncover the “biologic mechanisms” behind long Covid and potentially develop a cure....
...The R&D is alive and well there.” Truckenmiller said the vaccine’s US launch should soothe concerns about the company’s broader pipeline of drugs....
...The balance has shifted too far towards the private; while US business investment in R&D more than tripled between 1990 and 2020, federal public R&D spending was almost flat....
...Here are a few stories that the FT’s Lex column has been writing about over recent days to distract you, perhaps just a little, from the winter slump....
...The establishment didn’t really get it,” says Iain R Webb, who at the time was fashion editor of The Times, and describes grunge as “finding beauty in places where you weren’t supposed to find beauty”....
...PageGroup Q4 trading update, Rio Tinto Q4 operations review (late UK time) Tuesday Competition Appeal Tribunal hearing with credit card firm Mastercard in the £14bn class action claim brought by lawyer Walter...
...Grant arrives by bike — road cycling is a hobby — but sweeps in, the best dressed man in the room, in a full-length navy blue wool winter coat and scarf....
...Traders are also anxious about threats to supplies of Qatari liquefied natural gas to Europe as winter sets in....
...She also referenced Christian Dior’s La Cigale dress for autumn-winter 1952, which had quite a severe sculpted construction in heavy moire silk....
...We meet in Palm Desert, about two and a half hours from Los Angeles, where he and his wife, visual artist Beryl Korot, have decamped to escape the New York winter....
...Life and Art 🎧: In the latest episode of the FT’s new twice-weekly culture podcast, gardening columnist Robin Lane Fox shares advice on winter plant tending, indoors and out....
...by R Can & Sonic Noise. I heard it at a party; it’s a kind of techno dancehall track. It’s so good, so spontaneous....
...The hotel reopens for the winter season on December 15...
...Spoken word, folk, hip hop and R&B are placed alongside traditional opera....
...February 10 to April 6; further information here Jazz in the Gardens, Hard Rock Stadium One of the world’s key live jazz and R&B festivals returns for its 17th edition, with soul, funk, Afrobeats and gospel...
...Insurer Direct Line has axed its dividend after reporting £90mn in extra claims this winter. London-listed recruiter Robert Walters is warning that full-year profit will be lower than expected....
...McCarthy notes that the first presidential election he ever voted in was in 1984, when Reagan won a landslide victory over Democrat Walter Mondale....
...From May 21; further information and tickets here ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, Athenaeum Theatre Inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor, Donizetti’s tragic tale of feuding noble families, doomed...
...In the late Roman republic, writes Winters in his 2011 book Oligarchy, oligarchs often hired discharged soldiers from the Roman army....
...In Borris House, without social distancing but with two “R” s, I spoke on gardening at the annual Carlow Garden Festival....
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