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“The bicycle was still there,” writes Simone de Beauvoir towards the beginning of her second novel, The Blood of Others, “brand new, with its pale-blue frame and its plated handlebars … It was so lissom, so slender, that even when not in use it seemed to cut through the air.” There is something wildly seductive about this bicycle, something that compels Beauvoir’s heroine, Hélène, to go so far as to contemplate theft. Implicit in the description of this bicycle is a sense of freedom, and a mechanical beauty; Beauvoir herself was a committed cyclist after learning as an adult an...

2021-01-18 16:36:17 GMT2021-01-19 00:36:17(Beijing Time) Xinhua English by Jon Day TOKYO, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Monday vowed to be on the "frontline" of tackling the novel coronavirus pandemic under a state of emergency issued for 11 prefectures including Tokyo, the hardest-hit by the virus, among Japan's 47 prefectures. In a policy speech delivered by Suga on the first day of the regular Diet session, the Japanese leader doubled-down on his determination to fight the spread of COVID-19 and pledged to bring the crisis under control "as soon as po...

Country Life Trending: A flower room is the room you never knew you needed. 2021 will change that. Credit: Artichoke Interior design predictions for the year ahead, from Country Life’s guru Giles Kime. The pelmet Together with fabric-lined walls, a very deep chair and a roaring fire, there are few things more cosseting than a pelmet. Credit: Sims Hilditch / Brent Darby Photography They have the pulled-together look of a well-tailored suit and offer an additional buffer against light and sound. They’re a faff compared with a pole, but a faff that is definitely worth toleratin...

Sudden death of 9-year-old Mason boy unites community The sudden loss of a 9-year-old boy brings a community together By Andrea Medina and Maggy Mcdonel | January 10, 2021 at 9:17 PM EST - Updated January 11 at 5:50 PM MASON, Ohio (FOX19) - Blue ribbons are popping up all over Mason in memory of a 9-year-old boy who died on Saturday. JJ Day was a third-grader at Mason Elementary School. His parents tell FOX19 the 9-year-old was a kind and friendly boy who went to great lengths to make people smile. They say they are trying to find the light in the darkness by remembering their son for ...

I will lift the obama/clinton roadblocks that allow for this vital energy infrastructure projects to go forward. we have roadblocks like you have never, ever seen. environmental blocks, structural blocks. we are going to allow the keystone pipeline and so many other things to move forward. tremendous numbers of jobs and good for our country. we are going to cancel billions in payments to the united nations climate change programs and use the money to fix america's water and environmental infrastructure. we are paying billions and billions and billions of dollars. we are going to fix our own en...