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...lovespoon.co.uk), the spoons use symbols to spell out sentiment. In Brussels, workshops like Louise Verschueren (tel: [32-53] 84 86 80; www.belgian-lace.com) produce handcrafted needle lace for anything from wedding veils to T shirts. Craftsmen in the villages of Palekh, Mstera and Kholui northeast of Moscow have became world-famous for their detailed lacquerwork paintings (www.russian-classics.com). Almost anywhere you'll find a souvenir that's memorable in its own right. And if you still hanker after tat, there's always the airport shop...
...CHOSEN. FRANCE, as the site for the world's first nuclear fusion reactor; by the six members of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) consortium; in Moscow. After 17 years of talks and delays, ITER chose France's proposal to build the reactor in Cadarache, near Marseilles, over Japan's bid for the $12.18 billion deal. Expected to be completed in 10 years, the experimental facility is an attempt to produce inexpensive, inexhaustible energy by harnessing the same nuclear reactions that power...
...away. You would think wrong. On July 6, in Singapore, the i.o.c. will announce which city will next take up the Olympic torch and host the 2012 Summer Games. The competition has been the most intense for years, with five of the world's most famous cities - London, Madrid, Moscow, New York City and Paris - vying for the honor. Each city has launched a massive, multimillion-dollar marketing effort to get the Games. British Prime Minister Tony Blair will jet to Singapore for a last-minute charm offensive before opening the G-8 summit meeting in Scotland. The French team...
...York Times, first as a campus correspondent at Columbia University, later as a rewrite man on the night desk, where in 1956 he had become a newsroom hero for doing a quick and compelling job on the sinking of the Andrea Doria. He had served in Vienna and Moscow before going to Washington to cover the State Department, the White House and the CIA. So when the position of Washington bureau chief opened up, Frankel coveted the post. When he lost out to Tom Wicker, Frankel resigned. "But, Max, think of the platform," implored James Reston, the Times's Washington...
...marathon began in Moscow in September 1984, when the athletic, aggressive Kasparov, then 21, challenged the meticulous end-gamesman Karpov, then 33, world champion for the nine previous years and cynosure of the Soviet chess establishment. The match was played under revised rules, scoring only for victories, not draws. Five months and a record 48 games later, with Karpov leading 5-3 but faltering, the head of the World Chess Federation called off the contest, claiming that both antagonists were exhausted. Kasparov, having won the previous two games and the momentum, charged that he had been robbed. Seven months later...