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...last name of Michael Baigent, one of the authors of Grail. A sixth step to a best seller? Frits Sollewijn Gelpke Vorstenbosch, the Netherlands All Wet In "around the corner" [march 20], your forum of thinkers who discussed the trends of the future, Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Andrés Martinez said he takes longer showers because the shower is the last place he can think and the one place he isn't hounded by his BlackBerry, cell phone and 24/7 news on TV. Apart from wasting a precious commodity (water), it would appear he's never heard...
...would leave the larger problem unanswered: How to modernize France? Jobs will not spring magically into being if the hated employment law is abandoned. Eventually, structural reforms will be needed to transform France's prospects - and that will need fresher, more politically astute leadership than the country has now. André Glucksmann, one of the new philosophers who emerged in 1968, thinks that the great majority of French voters - the ones who didn't march last weekend - know that things have to change. "Every generation we have a war, a revolt or a revolution," he says. "That...
...their flocks and wild birds, dip their boots in disinfectant, even vaccinate their ducks, an option that remains unauthorized almost everywhere else in France. It's dealing with scared consumers that is tricky. Chicken sales in France were down by 20% at the end of February, says André Lepeule, delegate general of the Federation of Poultry Industries, and some retailers say sales have dipped by twice that. No matter how often politicians publicly eat coq au vin or suprême de volaille, the French are treating chicken as if it glowed in the dark. "I froze two chickens...
...accessories and Christian Fischbacher 500 thread-count linens. There are Jacuzzis indoor and out, and steam and sauna rooms besides. You'll also have enough space to entertain up to 36 friends for dinner, but to make a real impression, why not have just one guest? Executive chef Laurent André will design a menu for you and your companion, and a butler will serve it on the terrace. Given that the suite costs $11,200 a night, exclusive of taxes, you might ask whether the hotel could throw in a string quartet as well...
...country's safe, even smug society could fall prey to the same ethnic tensions that afflict Europe and the U.S. Meanwhile, the lingering threat of secession from the French-speaking province of Quebec has been given new life by the recent election of a determined young separatist named André Boisclair to lead the province's still formidable sovereign party. That's why an election that started out as a mere annoyance may pull the curtain down on a political era. According to one survey, 60% believe the government can't fix the cronyism that permeates the federal bureaucracy...