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...Some Europeans have simply factored Pelagia noctiluca into their beach experience. Full-body Lycra suits designed to shield the skin from UV sun rays have become hot commodities this summer, according to Nice scuba-shop owner Stéphane Pinier, ever since people discovered that the garments also block jellyfish tentacles. Of course, choosing that method of avoiding the sting can itself be painful: the ungainly getup costs nearly...
...report posted on The Citizen’s Web site, Power said she hopes that Ignatieff becomes the leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, but that she did not mention either the current leader of the party, Stéphane Dion, or Harper by name...
...biggest loss of support comes among more traditional sections of society that feel the publicity surrounding the President's private affairs is undermining a presidential office designed to remain stately, dignified, and above the fray," says Stéphane Rozès, deputy director general of the CSA polling agency, which conducted the survey. Some of the decay in his standing comes from people who hadn't voted for Sarkozy in the first place, but had been initially impressed by his energetic and iconoclastic style; many apparently now feel the President's flair has done little to improve a gloomy...
...Already a best seller in France, Pork & Sons won the Grand Prix de la Gastronomie Française and is being published in English in time for the newly dawned Year of the Pig. Part cookbook, part personal narrative, it reflects the allegiances of its author, Stéphane Reynaud, a self-taught chef who was born into the meat business. "I love the pig and like the pork," he writes. While his musings about pigs are affectionate, Reynaud, 40, avoids sentimentality by refusing to gloss over the animal's journey from pen to plate. Instead he makes a feature...
Former Kennedy School of Government professor and human rights expert, Michael G. Ignatieff, lost his bid for the leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party in a surprise upset on Saturday. Stéphane Dion, a former professor at the University of Montreal, took the party leadership with 54.7 percent of the delegates’ votes, effectively ending Ignatieff’s chances of becoming prime minister if the Liberal Party takes back Parliament in the next election. Ignatieff—a prominent public intellectual who earned a PhD in history from Harvard in 1976—left...