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...care for the aged), there has been no gain so far in terms of more vigorous growth, lower unemployment or blossoming consumer or business confidence. With growth in 2003 under 1%, a budget deficit shredding E.U. limits and a jobless figure hovering around 9.8%, the government has little to boast about beyond its law-and-order record. "Fighting crime and insecurity is obviously necessary," warns ump parliamentary president Jean-Louis Debré, "but that's not enough when insecurity is now synonymous to many of our citizens with rural decay, company delocalization and unemployment." The government assures voters that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Reforms Please, We're French | 3/28/2004 | See Source »

...wait for Dermochelys coriacea to do its thing. Italian-born owner-manager Piero Guerrini quit his job as a news photographer when he discovered this small corner of paradise, and he created a funky, all-suite hotel and spa - with its own herb garden, so the menu can boast fresh pesto Genovese despite the tropical setting. It attracts an eclectic bunch of guests who keep coming back - a bit like the turtles, which always return to the beach of their birth even after sea voyages that take them half way across the world. E-mail: info@mtplaisir.com ; tel: (868) 670 8381/2217

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turtle Tourism | 3/28/2004 | See Source »

...After he moved to the U.S. in 1933, he enthusiastically embraced all things American. He liked to boast that despite his Russian upbringing and European background (he had danced and choreographed in Germany, France, England and Denmark), ?I?m more American than anybody.? He set ballets to the music of Charles Ives, George Gershwin and John Philip Sousa. He choreographed dances for Hollywood movies (notably the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue sequence in On Your Toes, 1936) and Broadway musicals (including The Boys from Syracuse, 1938). He even famously devised a polka for the elephants in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Balancing Balanchine | 3/26/2004 | See Source »

Harvard students are known for leaving college with a lot of experience and accomplishments under their belt. But few can boast the resume with which women’s hockey co-captain Angela Ruggiero will graduate...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ruggiero's Legendary Career Almost Over | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

Three small labs, which boast some of the field’s most impressive technology, are now the home of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) 100, a new class that throws undergraduates into the trials and tribulations of laboratory research...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bio Class Provides Research Exposure | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

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