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Bill Nighy, master of misdirection
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 29/01/2023
» British actor Bill Nighy was trying to describe how he prepared for his character in the new drama Living. He plays Mr Williams, a buttoned-up, almost catatonically reticent bureaucrat in post-World War II London who, upon learning that he is dying, decides finally to live.
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Embalming, the dying science
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022
» Walk down two flights of stairs at the back entrance of the James Hunt Funeral Home in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and you reach a white-walled, linoleum-floored, fluorescently lit room, a liminal space that provides the beginning of an answer to one of the oldest and most confounding questions of the human experience: What happens to us when we die?
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Righting the ship
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/10/2022
» Millions of dollars in advertisements blasting schools for teaching critical race theory and assailing corporations like BlackRock for catering to "woke politicians".
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The populist climate threat
Oped, Published on 04/10/2022
» Reactionary populism is now the biggest obstacle to tackling climate change. With outright climate denial no longer an option, populist politicians have increasingly positioned themselves as climate doubters and delayers, and this new approach is proving to be quite insidious. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that global greenhouse-gas emissions must peak within three years to keep the Paris agreement's 1.5° Celsius target in reach; by slowing effective action, the tactics of today's populists are becoming an existential threat.
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The home makeover from hell
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/06/2022
» Millions of viewers, eager for a Cinderella story with real estate as the central character, watch televised home renovation shows to see troubled houses transformed into showstoppers.
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Bad sign from climate change sceptic Trump
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 25/11/2016
» So Donald Trump, the soon-to-be American president, is backtracking on his position about climate change.
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How the world fell in love with Einstein's humanity
News, Andrew Robinson, Published on 27/11/2015
» Albert Einstein announced his greatest achievement, the general theory of relativity, in Berlin a century ago, on Nov 25, 1915. For many years, hardly any physicist could understand it. But, since the 1960s, following decades of controversy, most cosmologists have regarded general relativity as the best available explanation, if not the complete description, of the observed structure of the universe, including black holes.
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“Merciless” Post-tropical storm Sandy (updated 20:30)
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 30/10/2012
» Sandy has been just as bad as forecasters has feared, causing massive flooding destruction along the east coast of the United States. Morning has finally come and people are just starting to see how bad things are. We will update the situation tomorrow.
dtac accelerate batch 7 announced startup finalists
By prnews, Created on: 14/05/2019, Last updated on: 14/05/2019
» [attachment=2:1rcyl1hd]highlight.JPG[/attachment:1rcyl1hd][b:1rcyl1hd]dtac accelerate batch 7 announced startup finalists and aimed to help startups ‘scale up’ faster [/b:1rcyl1hd] [b:1rcyl1hd]May 14, 2019[/b:1rcyl1hd] – dtac has made an announcement of the 15 startup finalists to participate...
IQAir HealthPro 250 named best air purifier by top consumer
By jchealth, Created on: 13/01/2016, Last updated on: 13/01/2016
» The IQAir HealthPro® 250 air purifier has been named the Best Air Purifier Overall by ConsumerSearch.com, adding to an already long list of first-place awards for the world’s most advanced air purifier. ConsumerSearch.com based its award on the ability of the IQAir HealthPro 250 to provide high-performance...
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