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...seeping into the beauty and home markets too. Baccarat just introduced a collection of black crystal goblets, and Chanel Beauté's black satin nail polish is one of the brand's best-selling products. Costume jewelry from Lanvin, a fashion insider must-have, features black ribbons and stones. French perfumer Kilian Hennessy, who introduced a fragrance collection last November called By Kilian, has set himself apart from the trend of transparent scents by introducing a more complex and mysterious composition called L'Oeuvre Noire...
...British youngsters drink their Continental European counterparts under the table: in 2003, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), 27% of British 15-year-olds had been drunk 20 times or more, compared to 12% of young Germans, 6% of Netherlands youth and only 3% of young French. British kids were also involved more frequently in fights (44% in the U.K. to 28% in Germany). They are more likely to try drugs or start smoking young. English girls are the most sexually active in Europe. More of them are having sex aged 15 or younger, and more than...
...Germany last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that NATO "must not - cannot - become a two-tiered alliance of those who are willing to fight and those who are not." But according to commanders on the ground in Afghanistan, that two-tiered alliance is already here. While French President Nicolas Sarkozy is widely expected to announce at the summit that he is sending another 1,000 French troops to Afghanistan, the bulk of NATO's needs are expected to go unmet...
...cementing its "reintegration" into NATO's command structure, there is still concern about answering NATO's call for more troops in Afghanistan. "It's a question of political acceptability," explains François Heisbourg, a special adviser at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Paris. Any spike in French casualties, he says, could produce "a real change in public perception...
...Fight, to Build, or Both? Despite the americophile tendencies of Sarkozy, many French - like other Europeans - see NATO and the Afghanistan operation as an endorsement of a U.S. agenda. More than that, they see NATO's role in Afghanistan as a manifestation of a particularly American way of solving problems, one that puts too much emphasis on combat at the expense of nation-building. The European dream is that its armed forces can specialize in development without having to pick up a gun. "The question is not which of the NATO countries is the toughest, but which strategy is most...