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London by the Glass Tired of pubs? There are plenty of affordable places with great wines on the menu--and a bustling museum that will satisfy your oenophilia
...million passengers a year. Computerized baggage systems would transport luggage with minimal error, while travelers relaxed in the bright, spacious interiors of the tubular buildings. But today 2E is welcoming only the investigators who are still trying to figure out why a 30-m section of one concrete, glass and metal tube collapsed last week, killing four people and raising serious questions about 2E's future. "This concourse was a showcase, a crown jewel," laments Pierre Graff, president of Aéroports de Paris (ADP), which operates Charles de Gaulle (CDG), Orly, Le Bourget and 14 other airports...
...lined hub, the Place de la Liberté, where art galleries and shops hawk handmade children's toys and souvenirs. Further north, it's your turn for a treat. Brantome and Bourdeilles are delightful villages where you can lull the little ones to sleep, then sneak off for a glass of wine in a café by the river. After all that parenting, you've earned every last drop...
...about 4% over three decades, while another computes it to be more than twice that much. There are also questions about the reliability of the devices that measure the sunlight reaching Earth's surface. Known as radiometers, these instruments are nothing more than flat, black solar collectors capped with glass. They are sometimes finicky; a smudge of dirt or a speck of dust can cause bogus readings and change the calculated results...
...didacticism. The book, like the show, is best when the writer gets out of the way of the story. When young Timmy breaks a neighbor's window, what's poignant is not so much that his father makes him fess up as that Big Russ wraps the broken glass neatly in a shoe box so that "the guys" hauling it away won't cut themselves. --By John F. Dickerson