Campco delegation heads for China
The visit to China, Padmanabha told TOI will give a fillip to Make in India concept.
The visit to China, Padmanabha told TOI will give a fillip to Make in India concept.
ENSCHEDE - FC Twente moet miljoenen euro’s binnenharken aan transfergeld. Maar er is geen club die in deze onzekere periode een bod neerlegt in Enschede.
South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius on Monday enters the final stretch of a protracted legal battle that could see him back in jail for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp three years ago.
Local firemen rescued a group of American hikers who were stranded Sunday by an overflowing river in Ogimi, along the west coast of northern Okinawa, according to the Kunigami Region Firefighting headquarters.
“After many years of going in the wrong direction, we are starting to go into the right direction,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said during a news conference in Brussels. “But we are still far from where we need to be. And we clearly need to do more.”
The guidelines released Monday are the first-ever for children from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. According to the guidelines: Adequate sleep is linked with improved attention, behavior, learning, mental and physical health at every age covered. [...] insufficient sleep increases risks for obesity, diabetes, accidents, depression and in teens, self-harm including suicide attempts.
Ottawa expected to funnel more than $3-billion to Canadian researchers this year
Demonstrators were kept back by tear gas as they tried to march to the country's electoral headquarters to demand the government allow it to pursue a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro. People with disabilities in Bolivia held a mock funeral for two fellow protesters who were run over by a drunk driver as they slept in their encampment in Cochabamba, one of many cities where disabled people are protesting to demand an increase in state benefits. Guatemala's former defense minister, Gen. Читать дальше...
Disney CEO Robert Iger doesn’t typically get involved in the minutiae of his company’s projects, but he is making an exception for the Shanghai Disney Resort, whose construction costs have exceeded $5.5 billion.
In “The Bog Girl,” your story in this week’s issue, a young man named Cillian falls instantly in love with a two-thousand-year-old girl that he’s cut out of some peat. Cillian, who is fifteen, lives on a remote island off the coast of northern Europe. How did you start to get interested in this semi-fictional landscape, and what made you realize that it would make a good setting for a story? Was it the landscape or the apparition of a preserved woman that was the initial kernel of the story?
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The young turf-cutter fell hard for his first girlfriend while operating heavy machinery in the peatlands. His name was Cillian Eddowis, he was fifteen years old, and he was illegally employed by Bos Ardee. He had celery-green eyes and a stutter that had been corrected at the state’s expense; it resurfaced whenever he got nervous. “Th-th-th,” he’d said, accepting the job. How did Cillian persuade Bos Ardee to hire him? The boy had lyingly laid claim to many qualities: strength, maturity, experience. Читать дальше...
The subject of Tom Vanderbilt’s “You May Also Like” (Knopf) is taste, the term he uses for whatever it is that guides our preference for chocolate over vanilla, taupe over beige, “The Bourne Supremacy ” over “The Bourne Ultimatum,” and Artur Schnabel and Joseph Szigeti’s recording of Beethoven’s tenth violin sonata over Vladimir Ashkenazy and Itzhak Perlman’s rendering of the same work. Vanderbilt’s widely admired previous book, “Traffic,” examined a dangerous and complex activity that people... Читать дальше...
In person and in his drawings, Frank Modell presented his friends and fans with different but companionable reactions—attention, concern, and an imminent expectation of delight. His gaze was mature and alert, but a wry smile often flickered near the corners of his mouth: something awaited. He was seriously, invariably funny. Also boyish, even in his nineties. Women adored him—some of them all his life—but so did his male friends, without envy. Years ago, when my wife Carol and I were coming home after a party... Читать дальше...
Eighteen months ago, Donald Trump and the Spanish-born chef José Andrés made a deal: Trump was developing a luxury hotel near the White House and wanted Andrés to open a restaurant inside. Andrés signed on. But then, last summer, Trump got talking about building walls and accused Mexico of sending rapists to the United States. Andrés, a naturalized U.S. citizen, wanted out. Trump sued for breach of contract. Andrés countersued, arguing that Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric had “torpedoed” the restaurant’s prospects. Читать дальше...
Like many skilled lyricists, the twenty-five-year-old singer-songwriter Mitski doesn’t like her words to be taken too literally. In April, when she released “Your Best American Girl,” her most straightforward indie-rock single to date, some music blogs assumed that the song was a provocation, designed to position Mitski as a female corrective to the predominantly male world of D.I.Y. rock music. “Your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me / But I do, I think I do,” she sings, not quite defiant. Читать дальше...
The playwright and actress Halley Feiffer doesn’t know how she got chronic Lyme disease, but she thinks it was from a tick on Martha’s Vineyard. Two years ago, she was acting in an Off Broadway play and could barely get through the second act. “Profound fatigue, profound brain fog. I couldn’t remember the word for, like, spoon. I couldn’t write,” Feiffer said recently. She was leaving a clinic on Park Avenue South, where, as part of her treatment, she’d just been injected with an antioxidant that... Читать дальше...
Breaking the Cycle
Ian Frazier illustrates the town-by-town, city-by-city battle that is under way to diminish our reliance on single-use plastic bags (“The Bag Bill,” May 2nd). The very properties that make single-use plastic bags attractive are the same ones that cause environmental harm: they are light, flexible, extremely durable, and, above all, cheap. In theory, these bags can be recycled, although the fifteen-per-cent rate that Frazier quotes, which comes from the American Chemistry Council, is misleading. Читать дальше...
A. Scott Berg has almost single-handedly rescued Maxwell Perkins from the anonymity he desired. Berg’s 1978 biography, “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius,” was a masterly look at a reticent Yankee who buried himself in manuscripts, wore a fedora everywhere, and deplored innovations—even as he discovered and published Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wolfe. The glamour of these figures prompted a Hollywood studio to option the book. Then, Berg recalled hearing, “the head of Universal got to page 3 of the script and said... Читать дальше...
The Cultural Revolution, by Frank Dikötter (Bloomsbury). Drawing on previously classified documents and on memoirs by individual citizens, this history of China’s most infamous social movement shows how a program based on denouncing reactionaries escalated into a witch hunt that took millions of lives and ruined millions more. Books were burned, Mongols tortured, “bourgeois” art confiscated, bourgeois pet cats slaughtered, students banished to the countryside to be reëducated by the peasantry. Читать дальше...