Word: continental
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GONE FISH It's not a good time to be an aquatic vertebrate, real or represented. The precarious state of the Patagonian toothfish, left, one of the top two species in Antarctica, was the leading topic at a conference on the southernmost continent, attended by ministers from 24 countries. At...
Delegates can, however, agree on Tintin as the prototype citizen of the new Europe: "He was created in Belgium and adopted by France, but in translation he has been embraced by the whole continent," says Crumley. "They see him as a European counterbalance to Mickey Mouse." As if an anti...
Perhaps because of Europe's deeper suspicions of Big Business, the food fight has prompted a regulatory go-slow on the Continent. One factor is the scare that erupted in 1996 over "mad cow" disease in British beef. Though the disease was caused by feeding animal parts to cows, rather...
Leaping the Atlantic in the '70s, Doonan ventured into the continent that was to prove his postmodern paradise. There was a stint doing the storefronts of avant-garde Maxfield in L.A. and a collaboration with the legendary Diana Vreeland at the Costume Institute of the Met. Then in 1986, his...
Many political analysts view the economic union as an important step toward greater stability on the continent and Winston Churchill's vision of a United States of Europe.