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IMF Country Focus. Spanish Recovery: Key Numbers
Spain has been a success story as crisis recoveries go. The country took the right reforms to get back on its feet after the blow it suffered when its economy slumped in 2008: its economy has expanded for the fourth year in a row. But while its growth is healthy and the country has regained much of its competitiveness, many people are still jobless, productivity is low, and the country is highly indebted to foreign creditors.
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NewsMaking matters: ground prep
Since time immemorial, makers have searched for the perfect varnish recipe, and take great care of the ground – but often fail to realise the importance of preparing the wood first. Christopher Jacoby gives a crash course in ‘ground prep’
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NewsJD Sports exchanges contracts on Iberian merger
JD Sports has exchanged contracts on the merger of its Spanish and Portuguese business with Sport Zone, owned by local sportswear giant Sonae.
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FeaturesDysphagia resource hub
A new resource providing guidance from our Guidelines summaries on the management of patients with swallowing difficulties together with expert advice on implementation.
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NewsMexico earthquake: tsunami confirmed after 8.1 magnitude quake kills five
Initial waves reach 1 metre above tide level as some residents on the south western coast reportedly told to evacuate
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FeaturesWA 100 2017: 1 Gensler
Rank 2017: 1 - Rank 2016: 1Country: USAArchitects: 2570Income: $1-1.5bn Gensler’s total domination of the rankings continues as it achieves the seemingly impossible task of growing still more after last year’s huge leap in size. At 2,570, the American practice now employs nearly 1,000 more architects than it ...
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FeaturesWA100: The big list
WA100 is BD’s annual survey of the world’s largest practices ranked by the number of fee-earning architects they employ. View a table of this year’s top 100 architects
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FeaturesThe Martian
The Martian (both the book and the movie) is a story that’s a realistic and plausible take on a future mission to Mars, and Mark Watney’s space suit is probably one of the most important environments in the story. After being stranded on Mars, he spends a considerable amount of ...
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FeaturesSunshine
In most cases, a film space suit is a film space suit. Sometimes, however, film designers recognize that they need something really specific. Case in point is the EVA suit used in Danny Boyle’s movie Sunshine. What really makes this suit really stand apart is its golden exterior, and the ...
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FeaturesThe Expanse
The Expanse is set in a plausibly-realistic future in which much of humanity lives and works around the solar system, and a result, the show’s characters use a variety space suits. In most cases, what we see are really utilitarian garments, used by blue collar workers on space ships or ...
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FeaturesAlien Franchise
The Alien franchise is loaded with cool space suits, some better than others. Alien leads the way with the suits the crew of the Nostromo’s uses for surface EVAs. These look appropriately designed for use in a harsh environment, while the space ship comes equipped with another space EVA suit ...
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FeaturesMoon
Sam Bell, the sole occupant of a mining facility in Duncan Jones’ debut film Moon, uses a really fantastic-looking space suit. Bell’s suit draws some inspiration from NASA’s astronauts, as well as some classic science fiction films, like Alien. This space suit is designed for excursions out onto the lunar ...
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Features2001: A Space Odyssey
It’s hard to find a space suit design that’s more iconic than the one from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. These suits appear a couple of times in the film in a couple of different environments: first when the characters go into Tycho Crater to explore an anomaly, and ...
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FeaturesOutland
An underrated sci-fi classic is the 1981 film Outland, which featured Sean Connery as a Federal Marshal working on a mining colony on Jupiter’s moon Io. The film features a fairly iconic suit, with a massive helmet with lights designed to show off the actor’s face. The suits look pretty ...
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FeaturesArmageddon
Weeks before Michael Bay started filming his 1998 blockbuster Armageddon, he apparently went to the props department and was dismayed at the space suits that he saw. “It looked like an Adidas jogging suit on a rack,” he complained. And “if you don’t have cool space suits, your entire movie ...
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FeaturesInterstellar
Interstellar calls back to past cinematic space suits, which certainly look plausible and realistic, with details like color-coding for different characters. These appear mainly to be used for ground excursions, or for when they’re performing maneuvers in the Endurance. They do have some neat features, like thrusters mounted on the ...
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FeaturesBattlestar Galactica
For a space show, we don’t actually see many space suits in the SCIFI channel’s revival of Battlestar Galactica. On the rare occasions people head into space, it’s usually pilots flying combat or patrol missions, where they wear suits designed to keep a pilot alive after being ejected, which look ...
