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...pulling power again in the fall while driving from Paris to Berlin. "It's a French icon like the beret or the baguette," he says. Dargnies offers three options: the Essential Tour, a review of the city's must-see monuments (1 hr. 30 min., $90); the three-hour Magic Tour ($155), which covers a wider selection of Parisian attractions; and the Unique Tour, an ? la carte option allowing daylong excursions in and around Paris ($178 for the first three hours and $47 for every additional hour). Each car comes with a chauffeur and accommodates three tightly packed passengers...
...westernmost country and current holder of the E.U.'s rotating presidency - played host to European leaders to celebrate the Union's historic inclusion of 10 new members from the East. In Brussels on Sunday, ambassadors planned to hold a friendly football match, each wearing T shirts with the same magic number: 25. Appreciation of the day's significance was most intense further east, particularly in the seven new members that languished for more than 40 years behind the Iron Curtain. It was there, east of the Oder River, where Europe's division was most acutely felt in the systematic repression...
...public. Is it mostly the temporary loss of water weight? Do low-carb fanatics lose weight while consuming more calories, as a Harvard study suggests, or do they end up eating less because they simply get bored with the high-protein life? Or is there some sort of metabolic magic when steak, eggs and cheese replace the starches in our diet? The late Dr. Robert Atkins, who got the ball rolling in 1972, controversially ascribed the weight loss to ketosis, the fat-burning state a body reaches when deprived of carbs. His critics have bordered on fanatic, their stridency growing...
Some experts contend that no amount of marketing can boost golf and tennis. Like basketball in the late 1970s, they say, the sports need a rivalry like Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson to capture fans' imagination. After all, tennis peaked in the 1970s, when John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg played epic matches. That's why tennis recently revamped the pro tour to create the U.S. Open Series, which will try to build rivalries by forging a six-week summer "season" that links tournaments. Golf sales hit a 15-year high in 1997, when Tiger Woods arrived...
...moment of inspiration, “you just put your hands on the piano and you get the right notes almost by magic,” Stills said...