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...this makes the climate loonies in the States realize we've got a problem, some good will come out of a truly awful situation." JOHN LAWTON, chairman of Britain's Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, referring to those Americans who deny what he says is the reality of global warming, a byproduct of which may be increased storm intensity...
...first time in history, two women were the principals in the traditional 'kissing hands upon appointment'-a ceremony in which the leader of the winning party is summoned to Buckingham Palace, there to be designated Prime Minister of Britain by the monarch and asked to form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory ... Thatcher thereby became not only the first woman to head a British government but the first...
...just the latest attempt by a woman to win a country's top elected position. And when the subject of a woman in the top job comes up, the person most talked about is Margaret Thatcher, who was on TIME's cover of May 14, 1979, when she became Britain's first female Prime Minister. Here is an excerpt from that report...
...Police sources in Britain declined to comment on the claims, as did Yusof Abdul Rahaman, the director of the special branch of Malaysia's police force. Sidney Jones, who heads the Southeast Asia office of the think tank International Crisis Group, says that it's critical to understand how "like-minded jihadis from other parts of the world" are forging ties with each other. Jones stresses the role played in such contact by Pakistan's Islamic schools, or madrasahs. Khan is said to have visited a madrasah in Pakistan less than a year...
...overflowing bath - for home insurers Direct Line - cascade down a line of 33 LED screens. And when Coldplay launched their album X&Y in May, giant screens beamed invitations to every turned-on, Bluetooth mobile-phone user within 100 m to download exclusive freebies. For the moment, Britain's digital outdoor advertising market is tiny - just $38 million a year, according to outdoor ad agency Hyperspace - but appealing. Some 78% of travelers at Tottenham Court Road find the adverts entertaining, according to Viacom Outdoor, which currently sells ad space on the London tube. "It's early days," says James Davies...