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...Even three lifetimes would hardly suffice for Henin's record run in professional tennis. She won a total of seven Grand Slam titles, including four of the last five French Opens. 'Juju,' as she's called by her doting Belgian public, also won 41 WTA singles titles and earned more than $19 million in prize money during her eleven-year career. She headed the WTA rankings for the 117th time this week, and had been No. 1 almost solidly since November 2006. She took the women's singles gold medal at the 2004 Olympics and was Belgium's biggest medal...
...banner year. Despite starting 2007 by leaving her husband Pierre-Yves Hardenne after four years of marriage, she won 10 of the 14 events she entered, becoming the first player in women's tour history to win $5 million in a year. She is the reigning champion at the French and U.S. Opens and has won all the Grand Slams except Wimbledon...
...French company Dassault Systèmes decided to put its high-quality modeling software into the hands of consumers, says CEO Bernard Charles, to "democratize" its use. "We want to make consumers comfortable with it, and build the audience for 3D," adds Lynne Wilson, 3DVIA's general manager...
...desalination plant that will be completed in 2009. Shipping in water is a stopgap measure to fend off the pressure on the city's supplies of this summer's thirst. The Catalan water agency has contracted 10 vessels for the next six months to ferry water from the French port of Marseilles and from the Spanish regions of Tarragona and Andalusia. The boats are expected to deliver some 92 million cubic feet of water each month, at a total cost of $68 million...
...lining to the cyclone's clouds? For decades, outsiders have searched for a way to pry open Burma's secretive regime. So paranoid are members of the junta about any outside influence that in recent years they have severely curtailed movements by foreign aid workers, forcing organizations like the French arm of Doctors Without Borders to abandon the country. When the 2004 tsunami swept over Burma, the generals refused any outside help. This time, though, the military announced it would welcome foreign aid. Three days after the storm, a trickle of donated food started reaching victims near Rangoon, although scores...