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Food retailers in Paris before the Revolution were tightly controlled by numerous laws, and regularly engaged in turf wars. One small group discovered that pandering to the tastes of the wealthy indisposed (who we would today call ‘the worried well’) was a nice niche market that got them around some of the regulations. They produced small, appetite-tempting, easily digested dishes called restaurants. Not all restaurants were soups – there were delicate dishes of such things as eggs, ‘creams’ and preserves too – but soups were certainly the dishes most strongly identified with the restoration of health.


--- Soup, by Janet Clarkson. 2010.

In an interview with the Press Association news agency, Mr Holland-Kaye [the CEO of Heathrow] said: "It's just physically impossible to socially distance with any volume of passengers in an airport."

He said a "better solution" is needed to make air travel safe. "The constraint is not about how many people you can fit on a plane, it will be how many people you can get through an airport safely."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52504183

In mid-January, long before most Germans had given the virus much thought, Charité hospital in Berlin had already developed a test and posted the formula online.

By the time Germany recorded its first case of Covid-19 in February, laboratories across the country had built up a stock of test kits.
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"Testing and tracking is the strategy that was successful in South Korea, and we have tried to learn from that," Prof Streeck said.
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Dr Merkel has communicated clearly, calmly and regularly throughout the crisis as she imposed ever-stricter social distancing measures on the country. The restrictions, which have been crucial to slowing the spread of the pandemic, met with little political opposition and are broadly followed.

So far this year, more than 27% of the box-office grosses in the U.S. and Canada have been generated by the five-highest grossing movies, according to Box Office Mojo. Four of those movies were released by Walt Disney Co.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-terminate-longstanding-legal-rules-for-movie-distribution-11574110393