He also, modestly but incisively, contemplates the diverse essence of the cinema itself the free play of spectacular imagination, the humble attention to the near-at-hand, and the surprising ways in which both contribute to the self-image of viewers and participants alike.

NEWYORKER: You All Are Captains

And within a minute, the visitors were behind when Bessone's left-hand cross at the other end found Pratley at the near post to volley home his second of the game and put the Swans back in front.

BBC: Swansea 3-2 Cardiff

Similarly, airline passengers would have been far less inconvenienced in December if carriers had not been running at near-record load factors and if they had been keeping a few extra planes on hand for emergencies.

FORBES: Blame Antitrust, Not the Weather, For Travel Woes

According to the official tale told at the elaborate commemorative museum near Linzhou, workers, using little more than hand-tools, took all of the 1960s to build the 1, 500km waterway and its 462 reservoirs and ponds.

ECONOMIST: Farmers pay the price for decades of wasteful water use

Last week a Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin was accused of the attempted hijacking of a London-bound flight, which he tried to board at an airport near Stockholm with a loaded gun in his hand luggage.

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