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With 4WS, all four wheels of the auto move with the turn of the steering wheel. The arc of the rear wheels, though, is never more than 5 degrees, vs. 30 degrees for the front wheels. That is enough to improve maneuverability at low speeds. At high speeds, 4WS markedly reduces the risk of skidding when a driver changes lanes, for example...
...Arc de Triomphe, that proud tribute to French glories in war, has been showing signs of age. Unsettled by shifting foundations and vibrations from traffic, the 151-year-old structure is crumbling. An unsightly nylon net now hangs like ill-fitting panty hose from its ornately carved arches to catch chunks of falling stone...
...When the Paris office of American Express volunteered to help restore the monument, however, a sensitive national nerve was pricked. "Americans threaten to land on Arc de Triomphe," howled the daily Liberation. Last week the National Federation for Public Works called for a massive fund drive. The Paris government says it will probably allow private companies like American Express to donate up to 40% of the restoration costs, which could come to $6 million...
Along with the police and ourselves, the detached observers on Bourbon Street that night were the officers and men of the visiting French Navy cruiser Jeanne d'Arc, in the Quarter on liberty. We passed them in order of rank: first groups and pairs of enlisted men, wearing bell bottoms and curiously feminine white blouses with deep square necks and blue piping, and berets with fluffy red pompoms. They looked lost. Next were the petty officers, slightly less visible in summer whites but still dead ringers for Parisian pharmacists. Finally and thrillingly came the Captain and his senior officers...
What she does not take into account is that sudden surge of delight in the middle of the night that every pregnant woman knows when the baby swivels, or the depression brought on by the puffiness in her face, or any of the temperamental swings that arc throughout the pregnancy. She does not take her dreams or reveries into account, her imagining what the baby will look like or grow up to be. Most acutely, she fails to anticipate that onrush of inexpressible satisfaction when the baby is laid across her breast in the delivery room. For all such moments...