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Whatever his true identity, Gauthier left a trail of druggings, robberies and murders that stretches from Hong Kong to Kathmandu-and perhaps farther. Also arrested in another Delhi hotel a few days later was Gauthier's alleged chief accomplice, Marie-Andrée Leclerc, 31, a French-Canadian medical secretary who met and fell in love with him on a visit to Bangkok. Police believe that the pair committed at least nine murders in India, five in Thailand and two in Nepal. They are also suspected of crimes in Canada, France, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Pakistan and South Viet...
...this rummaging through the past turned up some engaging anecdotes. Naturalist Thomas Jefferson, for example, had reached the end of his wits in a debate with that skeptical Frenchman Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who did not believe that such a thing as a moose existed. To prove the point, Jefferson, a pragmatic scientist, had a full-grown American moose shipped from New Hampshire to Buffon with his compliments-unique evidence, from the new nation, of a new world...
...interred in the garden of a villa at Fontenay-le-Vicomte, a Paris suburb; 16 days later, for fear that inquisitive French police might discover it, the corpse was hastily exhumed and reburied on the southeast bank of the Ile de la Grande Jatte opposite the Boulevard General Leclerc, in another Paris suburb, Neuilly-sur-Seine...
Free Choice. When this type of plan has been tried elsewhere, it has usually failed. Transit facilities simply cannot compete with the freedom and privacy of the auto. So Grenoble is promoting a humble alternative. "The bicycle offers door-to-door convenience," says Traffic Engineer Alain Leclerc, head of what he calls "the Two Wheels in Grenoble" program. "It also offers free choice of departure time and destination, plus the possibility of moving about without taking a hard-to-park ton of steel along with you." In case of inclement weather or too many parcels or small children, mass transit...
Will bike riders opt for the safe bikeways if it means taking a longer route to their destinations? To find out, Leclerc is now setting up a test bicycle path alongside a heavily used downtown street. But he is already convinced that "a bike should become a second car -perfect for cities...