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...Until now] the distribution of the Center's available funds was left to the discretion of the University's president, at the advice of the center's director," said Jean McVeigh, the center's administrative director...
...civil servants - who are paid 53% more than they would be for doing the same jobs on the mainland - protested plans to end their privileged status. That insensitivity has contributed to sporadic outbreaks of violence among this Creole community. "The younger generation doesn't really have any hope," says Jean-Michel Grosset, a high-school principal and resident of the town of L'Entre-Deux (pop. 5,000). "They live off benefit payments and anesthetize themselves with alcohol and marijuana. It's a breeding ground for despair...
...Innovators series forges ahead this week with a chapter on healers, who range from France's Jean-Pierre Barral, an osteopath with a technique he calls visceral manipulation, to yoga expert Patricia Walden. The section boasts a crisp new look created by our sister act of Marti and MaryAnne Golon. Art director Marti finds inspiration in the animated typography of movie-title sequences and websites. "Using different fonts, with varying weights and colors, I can make your eye bounce around the printed page." Picture editor MaryAnne aims to match the style of the photography to the spirit of the subject...
...Anderson, 45, was a natural choice to tell the story of the 1973 battle-of-the-sexes tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Except, she says, "I didn't know a thing about tennis." (She did, however, have access to King, whom she'd known through mutual friends for years. And for insurance, she took tennis lessons. "I consider myself a Method writer-director," she jokes.) But When Billie Beat Bobby (ABC, April 16, 9 p.m. E.T.) isn't really a tennis movie, just as the King-Riggs face-off wasn't memorable as tennis (she creamed...
Probably the only thing most people care to know about their gurgling inner organs is that they are functioning properly. But for Jean-Pierre Barral, an osteopath practicing in Grenoble, France, the body's vital viscera are like a beautifully complicated timepiece, each part in subtle but perpetual motion relative to the others. "In a single day, your internal organs move 30,000 times," he says. "Your liver alone travels 600 meters...