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From The Times. 12 July 2019: “Please beware. There may be nudity. Or loud noises. Or cigarette smoking” “Theatre productions issue all sorts of health warnings to ticket buyers these days. But London’s Donmar Warehouse has gone a step further: it is protecting audiences from any possible distress by giving detailed information in advance about scenes …
“We are collectively more than ever obsessed with individual identity, our personal brand, putting our stamp on the world. But we bow to the plain text of the smartphone, bland and unblotted. A WhatsApp message will never have the personality of a sibling’s spider-scribble. Digital communication can never match the intimacy of a handwritten letter. …
With a personal fortune worth just shy of $20 billion, Susanne Klatten ranks as Germany’s richest woman. She and her billionaire younger brother Stefan own a huge stake in BMW and a host of other enterprises. But Klatten these days is feeling annoyed. She doesn’t feel her family is getting the appropriate respect. As the …
Unbelievably, The Independent newspaper recently offered the following tips on dating behaviour: Even if the conversation has run dry within 15 minutes, do not do a runner. It’s just mean and rude. No “negging” – handing out backhanded compliments to gain the psychological upper hand. Although recommended by pick-up “experts”, it usually backfires for those …
Microplastics have been found dropping from the sky in a remote stretch of the high Pyrenees – a stark illustration of the way that the pollutants, carried on the winds, have the potential to accumulate “anywhere and everywhere”. Humans and other animals are consuming microplastics via food and water (including tap water), and there is …
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