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...late 1990s--a move that increased production and exacerbated the already growing pressure on prices. As a result, the balance of power has shifted. "Until 2001, the mentality of producers was to say, 'I make the wine, I label it, and you take it and pay,'" says Fr??dric Guiraud, who runs a regional wine-trading house called GRM. "Four years later, they're now saying, 'Do you want it? I don't care about the price. And can I have an advance...
...good company--seven other sets of parents and children have won science's highest honor. The most famous was also the most prodigious: Marie and Pierre Curie won in 1903 (Marie won another on her own in 1911); then daughter Irne Joliot-Curie, along with her husband Fr??dric Joliot, won in 1935. Who wouldn't pay to get a piece of those genes...
...commentaries he gives as a resident expert on The Daily Show and you'll discover that one of the deadliest potential consequences of global warming is an unfrozen-caveman crime wave. Crack the spine of his faux atlas, The Areas of My Expertise, and you'll learn of Fr??dric Chopin's ladybug obsession, Maine's state motto ("Remember the Maine!") and the Depression-era rebellion that resulted in Hobo Joe Junkpan's brief appointment as Secretary of the Treasury. In Hodgman's authoritative prose and hyperrational voice, the joke is that erudition can be a form of madness...
...taken down 17 months ago, as part of a $230 million restoration of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, the 4,800-lb. copper beacon had been badly damaged by the elements. Last week a new torch based on the original 1886 design by French Sculptor Fr??dric Auguste Bartholdi was raised 305 ft. to its perch in Liberty's right hand, overlooking New York Harbor. Constructed by a team of artisans from Les Mtalliers Champenois of Reims, France, the 15-ft. flame is gilded with 24-karat gold leaf. During the ceremony, Regional National Park Director...
...atelier of Charles Gleyre in Paris in 1862 formed friendships between Impressionist greats including Claude Monet, Fr??déric Bazille, Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Impressionist Still Life displays Bazille’s and Sisley’s versions of “The Heron,” which they painted side by side in 1867. Several Bazille and Renoir paintings were created while the two were sharing a studio...