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...The industry has been dominated for decades by an oligopoly of century-old contractors, known as “primes”, such as Lockheed Martin and Raytheon....
...Frédéric Panaïotis, Ruinart champagne’s chef de caveLe Monde sans Fin by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain A graphic novel about the finite resources of the earth....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...It was different to the 1960s when the US launched its Saturn V rockets within six years as it raced to put a man on the Moon....
...At nearly 400ft, the new SpaceX rocket will eventually be taller than the Saturn V that carried Nasa’s Apollo missions to the moon, and its 33 engines will deliver twice the thrust....
...So what is the reality, and why, asks Martin Wolf. (FT) Apollo-Athene: the new Berkshire Hathaway?...
...Martin Wolf believes the answer is no....
...“The age of 11-16 is vital, but it’s also when you are not allowed to be an apprentice,” says the mother of two, whose work has just been added to the V&A’s collection....
...Crossword 16,360: JB Cowperthwait, Florida; Neal Moister, London; Nicola Lancaster, Cornwall Polymath 1,054: Jim Nicolson, Edinburgh Christmas crossword: Mark Thornber, Durham, England; Andrew House, San...
...Kicking it off is a 10-day expedition to Svalbard, co-led by the acclaimed photographer/polar explorer Martin Hartley....
...The ongoing case is being watched closely by the rest of the industry, particularly because New York’s anti-fraud law, known as the Martin Act, is among the toughest in the country....
...“It’s just amazing what they were able to do with slide rules,” says Chambers of Lockheed Martin....
...‘I thought you needed an office to go to’ A dispatch from the weird world of San Francisco....
...The shockwaves slammed New York and San Francisco, and 50 years later continue to ripple all over the country....
...Then I’ll go to San Ginés for the best churros con chocolate and on to the food markets – most go to San Miguel, but I prefer San Antón or Antón Martin....
...MBAs have been criticised by entrepreneurs in the technology cluster of San Francisco’s Bay Area, however....
...“It came to us with only about two per cent of it digitised and catalogued,” said Martin Barnes, the V&A’s senior curator of photographs, whose job it has been to oversee the arrival and unpacking of the...
...What we’re reading US v China Martin Wolf parses how the US-China rivalry will shape the 21st century....
...(ForeignPolicy) Video of the day Martin Wolf on India v China growth The FT’s chief economics commentator compares recent economic growth in India and China and the prospects and challenges ahead for the...
...Last year aerospace company Lockheed Martin agreed a $62m settlement — the largest so far....
...She was raised in Princeton, studied at Yale, Harvard and MIT, and now lives in San Francisco. Yet she is WWC by marriage....
...Perched on the San Andreas Fault, sandwiched between ocean and desert, Hollywood is an apocalyptic town, long imagining itself on the verge of extinction....
...In 2011 she became an Adler Fellow at the San Francisco Opera. She also appeared with the Gotham Chamber Opera in Xavier Montsalvatge’s El gato con botas....
...“It’s not innate in the Filipino culture to take risks,” says Manuel V Pangilinan, chairman of Philippine Long Distance Telephone, the country’s biggest mobile provider....
...In soccer, it is London v Manchester, Madrid v Barcelona and local derbies beyond number. But for me it is purely local: Go Nats!! onohana.martin@gmail.com...
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