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The restaurant's name has curious origins. Ambassade (Embassy) is an outpost of L'Auberge de L'Ile, Ansanay-Alex's two-Michelin-star place on L'Ile Barbe in Lyon. Trivia collectors will be delighted to know that L'Ile Barbe is one of those wacky microstates, where eccentric...
Who was she? She could preach fluently, predict the future and travel, she claimed, from Paris to Tours and back by angel power. But were her gifts from God, the devil or her own vivid imagination? Grunwald, a former editor-in-chief of Time Inc., is less interested in theology...
DIED. JANE BARBE, 74, doyenne of telephone and voice-mail recordings, whose messages included "I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service" and "At the tone the time will be..."; of complications from cancer; in Roswell, Ga. Valued for her calm, friendly delivery and skill...
Died. Jane Barbe, 74, whose name was known to few but whose voice is familiar to millions who use voice mail or pick up the phone to find out the time or temperature; in Roswell, Georgia. Barbe first recorded announcements for telephone answering system pioneer Audichron Co. in 1963. By...
He proudly shows off the mangled 7.62mm AK-47 shell the surgeons pulled from his right leg. The medic Barbe, however, is troubled by the news that an ambulance might have opened fire on his fellow soldiers. The rules of war don't seem to apply in Iraq. "That...