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...taught the rest of us as well. If Julia Child gave American women the information and confidence to master the French classics, Lukins freed them from the strictures of a single cuisine. In her best-selling Silver Palate cookbooks, co-authored with Julee Rosso, she borrowed flavors and techniques from around the world to create a sophisticated style that 1980s America, with its new prosperity and attention to food, was ready to claim as its own. The dinner party was never the same...
...about $14 billion to finance its business for the next several years--and $2.8 billion more to buy Siemens' joint-venture stake. One plan calls for the state to sell 15% of Areva to new investors. Areva also plans to sell off its shares of a number of smaller French companies as well as T&D, an energy-transmission affiliate that it bought for close to $1 billion in 2004, which is now valued at nearly $5 billion and accounts for 20% of the company's profits...
...YORK CITY Coco Before Chanel French actress Audrey Tautou plays a convincing Coco Chanel in director Anne Fontaine's film about the fiery fashion designer's long and colorful life and career (opens Sept...
...industry veterans and a sister-in-law duo are leading the charge for gem-encrusted cuff bracelets?fall's polished rejoinder to last year's boho bangles. French designer Dominique Aurientis, who first gained attention in the '80s for her bold bracelets, has relaunched a collection of signature designs in materials like wood and gold plate. After years of styling celebrities in Harry Winston gems, Carol Brodie just introduced her own line of ridiculously well-priced jewels, Rarities, sold on HSN. And Radhika and Gauri Tandon channel their Indian and Art Nouveau inspirations into vibrant resin cuffs with inlaid stones...
...instance; under plans approved by the House of Representatives in June and currently with the Senate, U.S. firms could be required to do the same. But in its bid to meet ambitious targets on greenhouse gas reductions, Europe looks set to try taxing emitters. The French plan, says Christian Egenhofer, head of the energy and climate program at the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies, is just "the first salvo." (See pictures of ways to boost energy efficiency...