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...have any advice for an aspiring French chef? -Sarah Lautengeo, Shizuoka, JapanGo work a month or two as a dishwasher in a really busy restaurant, and see if it's still for you - the adrenaline and futility and craziness and cruelty. If you're over 30 and you think you're going to live your dream as a professional chef, sorry, Pops. It's too late...
...advertise million-dollar villas with pools and saunas, while shopping malls are jammed with Tunisians buying food and furniture imported from Europe. With the embrace of Western-style capitalism has come social change, too: the biggest TV hit this year was Star Academy Maghreb, a homegrown version of the French original, in which performers in skintight outfits gyrated to modern remixes of North African music. "This is a new age here," says Ghazi Karoui, who co-launched the independent Nessma TV earlier this year, with the hit show...
...compares 125 countries, the World Bank and the World Economic Forum ranked Tunisia as having by far the best prospects for growth in Africa, and it ranked third in the Arab world after energy-rich Kuwait and Qatar. The report cited Tunisia's low corruption, stable government and educated, French-speaking population. Lying close to Europe's huge markets, and with an enticingly low-cost, well-trained workforce, Tunisia is increasingly seen by European and U.S. companies as a near-perfect base. French carmaker Peugeot recognized these advantages when it recently opted to move its customer-service call center from...
...electronic book that he plans to write which readers could then customize. Inspired by an archive in an old Swiss town in which he found—and spent 14 summers reading—50,000 unpublished letters, Darnton said he plans to write about book smuggling across the French border during the 18th century. The book will be published in electronic form along with monographs and digitized manuscripts so that the reader can create a personal version of the text. “You can log on and follow things in very great detail depending on how seriously you?...
...most of his six months in office, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sought to lead by example: using his own relentless pace to inspire French citizens to work longer hours, achieve higher efficiency, and renew their love of labor. The effort is central to Sarkozy's attempt to boost economic growth through a nationwide increase in workforce productivity - a goal that requires motivating people to toil beyond the nation's legal 35-hour-workweek limitation, and, as he has put it, "Work more to earn more." But now Sarkozy is applying that slogan to himself with unexpected literalness...