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...most fashionable spas in France now offer thalassotherapy, a kilo-cutting regimen that combines diet, exercise and extensive-sea water massage. Furthermore, Gallic dieting is far from dull. Michel Guerard, the famed chef who helped popularize the low-calorie cuisine minceur, lures patrons to his spa at Eugénie-les-Bains with a gourmet diet (1,000 calories a day) that eliminates fats and starches without losing flavor...
...Jerome, she was that peculiarly erotic species, an American. Brooklyn-born Jennie had already caught the Prince of Wales' cruising eye. As Randolph reached for political power, the Prince-and other men-reached for Jennie. Yet when it became apparent that Randolph had contracted syphilis, the prodigious Jen nie abandoned her great love (an Austrian diplomat) to take her mad hus band round the world. She outlived him by 26 love-filled years and married not one but two men as young as her son Winston. When she was dying in great pain, she stopped to wonder: "Is this...
...Michel Guérard, at 41 the youngest of the four, whose two-star Les Prés et les Sources d'Eugénie honors the old cuisine in flavor but not always in calories...
...sorrow, is a dictation exercise full of traps for the unwary. Prosper Mérimée, author of the original Carmen, once offered a 248-word specimen as a test at the imperial court in Compiègne, and Napoleon III committed 75 errors. (Empress Eugènie made only 62.) Nothing much has changed since then in the stern regulations governing how the French teach their language to their children. Grading is fierce (more than five mistakes on a dictée bring a zero), and two out of three students flunk at least one year of elementary...
...land squeeze is forcing relocated Montagnards to choose between cultivating parcels of land too small to support them, trying to walk long distances to find more land, or looking for employment elsewhere. At Buon Nie Ea Sar, a local resident said that the people have an average of one-half to one hectare per family, and that most families were not getting enough to eat. At Buon Kli B, Montagnard farmers report having to walk as far as ten kilometers to find land...