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...The festivities to mark an astonishing and unlikely-to-be-repeated 70 years on the throne next month include parties, parades, tree plantings and a competition to invent a new “platinum pudding”....
...“A cheap notebook is still a tree. It’s not a throwaway thing. If you’re writing rubbish, do it on your laptop.”...
...“We’re talking about institutions that have been around for decades or hundreds of years,” says Mr Wright. “They don’t want to be caught flat-footed.”...
...Nobody should feel nervous about putting (or finding) a smartwatch under the tree this year....
...I also fear that Google and Apple haven’t thought very far down the game tree. One of the arguments for leaving the meta-platforms alone is that they are facially neutral with respect to content....
...Aerojet said the AR1 would be ready to fly on Atlas V in 2020 and on Vulcan by 2021, only just behind the 2019 finish date that Blue Origin is targeting....
...Aerojet’s offer underlines the company’s desire to supply the engine for the new Vulcan rocket that ULA is developing to replace its Atlas V, which is powered by Russia-built engines that congress has said...
...Portraits such as of the poet Tennyson and “Madonna and Child” are on display in a new exhibition at London’s V&A. Forwarded Source code poetry Programmers are artists too....
...The engines — powered by methane, a new propellant for US-built engines — will initially power a similar rocket to the Atlas V that ULA powers with Russian-built RD180 engines....
...“We’re here to disrupt and shatter the status quo and dispel preconceived notions,” Johan de Nysschen, Cadillac’s chief executive, said at the unveiling of the new Cadillac CTS-V, a performance version of...
...But carpenters also discreetly added the chequerboard, V-shaped and cross-hatched markings to protect its occupants from evil spirits....
...The RD-180 powers ULA’s Atlas V rocket, used for the most sensitive US satellite launches. The US looks all but certain to develop its own alternative....
...ULA has stockpiled two years’ worth of RD180s for launches – and could switch more launches from the Atlas V to its more old-fashioned but wholly US-sourced Delta rockets....
...Martin Amis Author of ‘The Zone of Interest’ (Cape/Knopf) Lawrence Wright has become a formidable technician of synthesis and narrative....
...The most striking new feature, though, is a spiral staircase set into the centre of the rotunda – where the gallery used to erect its artist-decorated Christmas tree....
...… Martin Amis Author of ‘The Zone of Interest’ (Cape/Knopf) Lawrence Wright has become a formidable technician of synthesis and narrative....
...On a street corner in Fort Greene, a Brooklyn neighbourhood of elegant brownstone houses and tree-lined streets, Earl Drummond and Hilda Cohen are in animated discussion....
...He describes turning up to the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 wearing “a V-neck tennis sweater in the traditional white, maroon and black, over white pants”....
...In a separate case, New York-listed Diana Shipping said in December it was owed $4.8m for charter of the M/V Houston, which it had chartered for five years to China’s Shagang Shipping....
...A dead tree stands to the right of a tumbledown brownstone house. The Brooklyn Bridge and the skyscrapers of Wall Street are in the background....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree £25, 640 pages FT Bookshop price: £20 The almost identical, bearded and inscrutable faces of King...
...The wave of the 1950s – James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Allen Ginsberg and the Paris Review crowd – had all this too, along with inescapable romantic nostalgia for the 1920s....
...Another option is for the country to remain on its knees: recessions are the tree-huggers’ friend. With factories idle and bankers grounded, the world is pumping out less carbon dioxide....
...Eduardo Castro-Wright, head of Wal-Mart USA, said comparable sales for the past 52 weeks were three times higher than the previous year. “Clearly, our stores are performing very well,” he said....
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