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...Lausanne is a hilly town and the harbor, called Ouchy, lies at its foot. On sunny days locals flock here to stroll along the lake the Swiss know as Lac Léman. From here a 20-minute walk takes you to Vidy, a vast park with a smaller harbor. These shores bear vestiges of Roman presence dating back to 4500 B.C., with well-preserved ruins scattered along lakeside paths...
...Saint Tropez. His reel-life leading-man status translated to real-life heroism when he earned the Croix de Guerre for service in the French armed forces in 1944. An actor who performed on both the stage and silver screen--most notably as a randy swimming instructor in Lac aux Dames--Aumont was also a megastar with women. Although he married twice, he was more celebrated for his engagements to, among others, screen luminaries Hedy Lamarr and Grace Kelly...
...kayaker trains, how she thinks and how she speaks. With refreshing un-Canadian candor she tells you, "I hate losing more than I love to win." It's been her mantra, first in French, then in English, since age 13, when she won her first race at home in Lac Beauport...
...LAC ALAOTRA BAMBOO LEMUR HOME Madagascar POPULATION fewer than 5,000 --Irrigation projects reduce water levels in its habitat on the shores of Madagascar's biggest lake, and local people cut the papyrus and reeds on which it feeds
...FOND DU LAC, Wisconsin: Seeking to retake the high ground on welfare reform from President Clinton, Bob Dole on Tuesday endorsed a five-year time limit on welfare benefits and said states should have the option of requiring mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients. Dole said welfare and other Great Society programs represent the failures of liberalism: "Today, it stands as its greatest shame; a grand failure that has crushed the spirit, destroyed the families and decimated the culture of those who have become enmeshed in its web." Clinton had launched a preemptive strike on Saturday when he announced...