2014年9月7日 星期日

2014-09-08 U.K. Spotlight

  BBC Sport   
The Dunlop motorcycling dynasty: Life, death and glory on the roads  BBC Sport
"You think it's never going to happen to you - you're always going to be the one who gets away with it." William Dunlop, road racer. Robert Dunlop didn't get away with it. Not this time. So here he is, dying on the side of a road. Just like older brother Joey, eight ...


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The ECB is blowing smoke in our eyes  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Mario Draghi has played a weak hand with skill, as always. He is a superb actor. Yet the package of measures unveiled by the ECB yesterday is pitifully small and mostly window dressing, an effort to buy time with a mix of vague gestures and outright ...


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American Apparel Adverts Banned For 'Sexualising Schoolgirls'  Huffington Post UK
An ad for American Apparel's "back to school" range has been banned for "inappropriately sexualising" girls and potentially normalising predatory sexual behaviour. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the two ads, which both showed the model ...


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In the face of Ebola a little panic is a healthy thing  Financial Times
The outbreak of a new strain of the deadly Ebola virus in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and now Nigeria and Senegal has turned west Africa into a battleground between the promise of globalisation and its terrors. An instance of the promise is a remarkable ...


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  BBC News   
Finns on Russian border wary of Nato ties  BBC News
Finland is to sign a pact strengthening its ties with Nato on Thursday as the conflict in Ukraine re-awakens old fears about its neighbour Russia. The two countries share a 1,300km (800 mile) border, but while the Finnish prime minister wants to join Nato, ...


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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Scottish independence referendum poll: the latest tracker  Telegraph.co.uk
Here you can track the latest poll of polls to get the most accurate picture of how people are likely to vote in the Scottish referendum. How the polls have changed. Polls for the Scottish referendum are narrowing ahead of the September 18 vote. Support for the ...


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Jorge Mendes, power broker behind football's elite  Financial Times
Nearly 20 years ago, in his nightclub in the windy northern Portuguese coastal town of Caminha, Jorge Mendes became a football agent. Using his only assets – charm and a modest career as a semi-professional player – he befriended local goalkeeper ...


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  BBC Sport   
Carl Frampton: The boxer following where McGuigan dared to tread  BBC Sport
My taxi driver, previously loud and hearty, fades to a hesitant whisper as the guns grow bigger above us. Guns wielded by men in balaclavas, bookended by the words: "Prepared for peace. Ready for war." Only a mural, but real enough. A short trot down the ...


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Metro-Land suburbia is changing, but its promise of pretty privacy endures  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
What strange architects the British are. We take an acre of virgin soil, cover it in concrete, build a house or five hundred, and then, inch by inch, try to recreate the beauty we smothered. Gardens, apple trees, roses and tables for hungry birds. In leafy suburbia ...


   


Yuval Noah Harari  Financial Times
I arrive half an hour early at Meshek Barzilay, a vegetarian restaurant in Tel Aviv, but moments later Yuval Noah Harari walks in early too. When I began reading Sapiens , the Israeli historian's vaultingly ambitious history of humankind, I envisaged an older, ...


   

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