Month: October 2021

Taken from the October 2021 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline “The climate-change outsider”. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Sidney Perkowitz on Guy Callendar, the engineer who demonstrated the link between rising carbon-dioxide concentration and temperature but was dismissed
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Saturday AM Update: The first Halloween in two years during the pandemic is taking its toll on the domestic box office, a grey cloud which many saw coming, with many trick-or-treating or heading to parties tonight. Essentially, whenever the holiday falls on a Sunday, it’s poised to gut the weekend. And, yes, we can blame
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President Joe Biden on Oct. 29, 2021 in Rome, Italy. Antonio Masiello | Getty Images News | Getty Images A $1.75 trillion social and climate spending framework Democrats unveiled Thursday would reform the health-care market in several ways, expanding access and reducing costs for millions of Americans. Chiefly, the proposal would expand subsidies available for
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Big Halloween night Friday in Hollywood … big stars, fun costumes and lots of parties. Leonardo DiCaprio showed up to Nicolas Berggruen‘s Bev Hills bash lookin’ like Andy Warhol. Drake, on the other hand, just came as himself. And, this is interesting … with all the Facebook drama, guess who also showed up — the
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President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen looks on as U.S. President Joe Biden gestures towards Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and French President Emmanuel Macron greets Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the start of the G-20 Summit at the convention center of La Nuvola, in Rome on
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Maxar said in a statement it is “reviewing the new solicitation via OTA to determine what substantive changes have been made’ WASHINGTON — Maxar Technologies decided to challenge a Defense Department procurement of 126 satellites because of the financial burden the program imposed on contractors, the company said.  Maxar believed that the terms of the
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Focus Features presents Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho, a twisty psycho-thriller with a great soundtrack, as Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch goes wider, testing the appeal of a director whose films have been called the arthouse equivalent of Marvel. Last Night, a time-bending genre tale, unspools on just over 3,000 screens, not exactly specialty
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Migrants, mostly Haitians, wait for asylum processing by Mexico’s Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR) outside a soccer stadium, in Tapachula, Mexico October 12, 2021. Jose Torres | Reuters The Biden administration on Friday announced its second attempt to terminate a Trump-era border policy that forces asylum seekers to stay in Mexico until their U.S. immigration
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News Fugees Postpone Reunion Tour The shows will be rescheduled for 2022 “to ensure the best chance that all cities on the tour are fully open” By Allison Hussey October 29, 2021 Facebook Twitter Fugees, September 2021 (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage) Facebook Twitter Fugees are postponing their upcoming reunion tour, which was supposed to begin
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For the uninitiated, the concept of a Ganni Girl is about dressing for yourself and nobody else. The Copenhagen-based label helmed by husband-and-wife designer duo Ditte and Nicolaj Reffstrup creates pieces that celebrate individuality and encourage self-expression—making you feel like the best “you” you can be, every time you wear it. Here, in an exclusive
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