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…with the British General Strike of 1926. With no public transport available, the thirteen-year-old Turing cycled the 60 miles to school, staying in a guesthouse on the way and earning a write-up in his local newspaper. Turing went on to study Mathematics at King’s College, Cambri...

…lt the obstacles we’d faced with Sabena, they were almost child’s play compared to getting a sayeret assault team 5,000 miles across the continent of Africa, surprising the terrorists, freeing the hostages unharmed and getting them out. That was even assuming, as I did at that po...

…ictory in 1992, and mine over Bibi Netanyahu in 1999. During the first two years of Begin’s rule, however, I was 7,000 miles away. Ten days before the election, I’d gone to see Motta, and he’d agreed that I could return to Stanford, to finish what I’d barely begun when the 1973...

…s. “So why not pay more for green gasoline?” My fuel sensor can tell the difference: it registers an anom- alously high miles-per-gallon number. Fang gives me two thumbs up as I pull away, watch- ing me drive off on his preferred solution to the ener- gy crisis. It’s unclear whe...

…s, who throws himself in front of a train early in the film, Susan Sarandon as Shia's real-estate broker mother, Sylvia Miles, who reprises her hilarious cameo as another real-estate agent and Jean Pigozzi as an international banker. Lunch is called at 4 p.m. and Michael Douglas...

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…Then the realization that a human being could be purchased within a few hours of my home for under $100. Now only a few miles away. In the following years I've been learning the myriad forms, places and types of slavery. The list keeps lengthening and with each new form (to me),...

…c-thronged streets), the Siam Kempinski Hotel 31/7 at 8pm BST Bangkok manages to provide a tranquil getaway that feels miles from the city's chaos. Capitalizing on the hotel brand's European roots, the design is an artful blend of Art Deco accents and Thai flourishes. In 303 ro...

…e Duke’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell on board, before they enjoyed the Duke’s hospitality at the Queen’s Norfolk estate 20 miles away...." Ross Gow Managing Partner ACUITY Reputation Limited 23 Berkeley Square London W1J 6HE acuityreputation.com < <http://acuityreputation.com>...

…irmary, where he spends Sheriff Ric Bradshaw: June local jails, tran exactly one night before being transferred seven miles up the road to a much smaller, safer location: the Palm Beach County Central Detention Center — or, as it's known, the Stockade. ” Ric Bradshaw says. “I...

…et of numbers that behaved in strange ways. Cantor was upsetting the apple cart, but he was in good company. Just a few miles away in Berlin, a young Albert Einstein was beginning to study physics in his spare time. Those studies would culminate in his four papers of 1905, two on...

…day when requested. It’s carried ~ by workers who slip, silently, under the porte cocheres. Then it gets whisked twenty miles away to a landfill that the garbage- men call Mount Trashmore. Noel's stretch of the Estate Section runs from the Everglades Club to the southernmost tip...

…lding, take whatever they wanted, and walk out with it and they would never know. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 | aaa MILES NORTHWEST of Honolulu on the island of Oahu, adjacent to the sprawling Wheeler Air Force Base, is a 250,000- square-foot, man-made mound of earth and rein...

…141, HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033301 One's 43. The presidential jet is also slightly faster with a range of about 6,800 nautical miles compared to 4,100 for a 757. A VC-25A can also be refuelled in mid-air by a tanker, extending its range even further. The two presidential planes cost $32...