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...Anne Boleyn. The living parties all felt like celebrating. In their first betrothed public appearance, the Prince of Wales, 56, smiled and blushed while Parker Bowles, 57, showed off her ring and giddily declared, "I'm just coming down to earth." The Queen issued a statement saying "The Duke of Edinburgh and I are very happy that the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Parker Bowles are to marry." For the Queen, "very happy" is gushing...
...reached the top--or almost. No man she careered is known to have ever said a word not in her praise. Apart from her first husband Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, U.S.N., and her second (present) husband Ernest Aldrich Simpson, a London shipbroker, probably her best friend, next to the Duke of Windsor, remains the Argentine Ambassador in Washington, Felipe Espil ... "My, my!" sighed Ambassador Espil to swank U.S. friends last summer, "who would ever have dreamed that our little Wallis would ever be where she is now!" --TIME...
...www.parador.es GERMANY The Hotel-Restaurant Schloss Landsberg, about 100 km from Frankfurt, is at its best on sunny days, when guests sit in the beer garden and savor the brew from the nearby town of Meiningen. Built in 1836, the neogothic former castle of Duke Bernhard II of Saxony is stuffed with fine art and antiques. Rooms from $160 per night. tel: (49-3693) 44090; www.gast-im-schloss.de
...that many of us would like to see more than one woman on the Corporation,” she wrote. Hanna H. Gray, the former president of the University of Chicago, is the only female currently on the seven-member Corporation. Gray will be replaced in June by former Duke University and Wellesley College President Nannerl O. Keohane, who will become only the third woman ever to serve on the Corporation...
...clear that mammals did fill some of the niches reserved for larger animals. "It's quite possible," says Anne Weil, a Duke University paleontologist who wrote a commentary accompanying the Nature report, "that they competed with dinosaurs for the same prey." And because they ate dinosaurs, she says, they may even have had an influence on dinosaur evolution. What sort of influence? "We don't know," she says. "That's how it is with the best finds. They leave you with more questions than answers." Those answers may be lurking under the barely scratched surface of Liaoning province. --Reported...