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...line is just one element in Marseilles' economic and urban renewal project known as Euroméditerranée, the second-largest public works undertaking in French history after Paris' La Défense. Central to the effort is the renovation and new construction of more than 300 hectares of office and residential space in central Marseilles, and the extension of training and business parks. As its first phase nears completion in 2010, Euroméditerranée will have cost $650 million in public funding and is expected to generate $1.3 billion to $2 billion in private investment...
...more visually arresting features of Jubail is the Al Mantekah Al Sakaniyah marina, with smooth white beaches that could grace a Club Méditerranée advertisement. Occupying the four choicest miles of Jubail's 28.8 miles of coastline are three man-made lagoons. Two of them are for swimming (one for families and single women and one for single men). The third is for boating. Eventually, the marina will be landscaped with a winding boardwalk as well as shade gazebos and date palms, giving the area the appearance of a Hawaiian resort...
...powerful. They were tied by a system of reciprocal rights and obligations." Roots often has a flattened, cartoon quality: the whites nearly all villainous, the blacks uniformly heroic. Africa is romanticized to the point that it seems a combination of 3rd century Athens and Club Méditerranée, with peripatetic philosophers afoot and Claude Lévi-Strauss expected for dinner...
Dwarfed but not bowed, French Sailor Alain Colas is all alone sailing a 236-ft. four-masted schooner in the Singlehanded Transatlantic Race. Called Club Méditerrané after its principal sponsor, the vessel is the largest sailing yacht built since before World War I, and Colas is the only man ever to try to skipper such a leviathan without a crew across the treacherous Atlantic. He hopes to make the 3,000-mile passage from Plymouth, England, to Newport, R.I., in 18 days, beating his own record of 20½ days when he won the last race...
What makes the Club Méditerranée a success is its prices, usually less than a traveler on his own would spend on air fare alone. After paying annual $3 dues, a club member can, for instance, go and spend two weeks on the Greek island of Corfu for $210, which is $70 less than the regular round-trip tourist air fare from Paris (an off-season third week is thrown in free). Two weeks at the Djerba, Tunisia, village costs $200. Three weeks in Tahiti costs $1,120-or $660 less than the economy air fare from...