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...elementary - producers shouldn't just recycle, they should aim to buy recycled paper the first time around. Instead of using polluting diesel generators on the set, filmmakers could buy ones that run on less-carbon intensive biodiesel - which, Begley points out, has the additional benefit of "smelling like French fries instead of diesel gas." But some of Begley's suggestions would seem to challenge the star system of at the heart of the Hollywood galaxy. Why, he asks, should we reserve singe cars for celebrities? "Load it up," exhorts Begley. "Get some grips and electricians riding in that...
...have other sorts of travelers: Robert Byron, after his time at Eton and Oxford, paid for his Tibet trip piecemeal by serializing articles about it. There is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the thoughtful French aviator who piloted his way around Algerian skies and Saharan camels before becoming at one point—randomly—director of the Aeroposta Argentina Company...
...turned out to be something even more formidable than massive strikes, countless street protests, or even the explosion of violence in the nation's blighted housing projects that caused French President Nicolas Sarkozy's approval rating to sink. The reason for Sarkozy's score to slide under the 50% bar was the economy - and more precisely, the President's inability thus far to boost flagging purchasing power that French voters list aside unemployment as their biggest daily concern...
...into law - and staging diplomatic coups by brokering agreement on the simplified European Union treaty; freeing Bulgarian medics held by Libya; and laying the way for restored relations with the U.S. with his vacation chow-down with George W. Bush. But that razzle-dazzle has failed to achieve what French consumers are waiting for most: economic growth capable of cutting joblessness, and putting more disposable income into their pockets. With that not happening, 87% of respondents say the government has failed to battle rising prices; 73% say its efforts to lower unemployment haven't worked; and another 73% feel...
...Increasingly, those suitors are whispering sweet nothings in European accents. So far this year, European bigwigs including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and London Mayor Ken Livingstone have come calling, while French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations next January. On Nov. 30, E.C. President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Union President and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates will visit New Delhi for the annual E.U.-India summit, a bilateral confab to discuss investment, scientific cooperation and efforts to combat climate change. The participants are expected to announce a joint solar energy project...