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NHS advisor/architect: "the benefits of extra spending were eroded by poor productivity, IT delays and a worsening in the British lifestyle that is fuelling an obesity crisis"
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I try not to get too excited about tron2 films because they are rumoured every couple of years but then seem to fizzle out, like a Program being derezzed on the game grid...
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As if David Simon and Ed Burns were not already godlike for their work on The Wire, they put these two together. She, former junkie, had been interviewed for The Corner; he, inspiration for Omar, had been arrested by Burns. It's a beautiful thing.
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15-16 Sep 2007
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On the geopolitical, linguistic and informational lockdown and control of the centre of Sydney for the APEC event. Very good.
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On Kodak and the ushering in of the consumer electronics industry: "you press the button and we do the rest".
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Philip Zimbardo's "social interactionist" psychology.
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Maritime Rites: "staged on a barge on the Thames and on the banks of Tate Modern. [...] LSO lead improvisers and volunteers who join in with the bells of St Paul’s and Curran to present a rich collage of harbour sounds, foghorns and ..."
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Plans: thinking about doing an etching/litho course...
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"The Art of Lee Miller [...] at the V&A, would be better if it included more nude images of the artist [...] Even when she's photographing the desert, you might think she's meditating on what it is to be looked at"
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Need same for outside US, though many other jurisdictions have no similar remit or compulsion to publish crime data, making the US the most heavily mapped by far.
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Study sez: "the last digit of a product's price determines your perception of how much the item has been discounted. If the price ends in a lower number (less than 5) you feel like you got a better deal."
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New research to "identify countries where battles could break out over increasingly scarce supplies of food and water, [and] likely conditions in which British troops may have to fight in future." Though haven't water wars been predicted for a long time?
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