Richard Williams in the Guardian re a carelessly parked car in London: Unimaginable in France, Italy or Spain, where bikes and bike racing are part of the fabric of life, and motorists take care to give cyclists extra room on the road. Could “bike-friendly Latins” be the new “tolerant Dutch“? For a small fee (insurance…
On the same day the Enola Gay dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, a small Mexico City pharmaceutical manufacturer offered the distinguished Hungarian Jewish contract bridge player, George Rosenkranz, work synthesising progesterone from inedible yams. He fell in love with the city immediately: I saw the blue sky, the volcano, and heard this music outside my…