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...taken aback by Jack Swigert's opinion: "The very things that qualified the men to go to the moon ... disqualified them to describe their journey with any lyricism." Perhaps Swigert has never heard of Antoine de St. Exupéry, the French aviator, explorer and writer, whose internationally loved fictional creation, the Little Prince is from the planet B612. Somehow I believe St. Exupéry would have fulfilled NASA's requirement "for pilots who were made of tough physical stuff" in spite of his many other talents. NASA should broaden its scope. Jeanette F. Huber, KINSALE, IRELAND...
Ephron's movie is based on the book of the same name, Powell's account of the year she spent cooking her way through Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and blogging about her experiences. By turns amusing, profane and whiny, Julie & Julia was a best seller. It did not include a blurb from Child, who reportedly found Powell's project disrespectful and unserious. Thankfully, in writing her screenplay, Ephron drew on a second source, Child's memoir My Life in France (published after Child's death in 2004 and written with Alex Prud'homme). The Child...
...West. It grabbed headlines this past week when a Paris swimming pool refused entry to a young Muslim woman wearing a "burqini," a swim garment resembling a diving suit. In France the incident falls into a wider political debate over how to reconcile the country's Muslim immigrants to French secular values. And while the number of Muslim women in France - indeed, throughout the world - who insist on a severe covering like the burqa is small, the challenge of staying slim and Islamically proper is not. (Will France ban the burqa...
...data is very surprising - after four negative quarters, France is finally coming out of the red," said French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde on RTL radio. And from Berlin, Germany's Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg issued a statement similarly applauding the unexpected growth statistics. Still, he cautioned, they are "no grounds for euphoria, because we're still a long way from seeing the economy back at the level that it was at last year...
...that? The U.K. aside, better than anticipated activity holds the hope that Europe may be following the U.S. in seeming to climb out of its deep economic stupor faster than expected - however gingerly. The challenge now is to sustain that improvement. Initial data released state statistics agencies indicates both French and German export boosts primarily benefited from renewed activity in Asia, which itself is at risk of waning. (See pictures of the dangers of printing money in Germany...