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...Forget the six-course meal and the bevy of waiters swooping around your table. To really savor a beautiful fall evening in Paris, ditch the stuffy, gilded dining room and try a champagne picnic along the Seine or a melon-and-charcuterie potluck on the Champ de Mars. Paris is full of prime public spaces with great views that make superb?and free?locations for private parties. For breathtaking backdrops, the banks of the Seine rank high. Parisienne Am?lie Nusse and 14 of her twenty-something friends threw a bachelorette's dinner?complete with tables, linen, candelabras and evening gowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Loveliest Dining Room | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Forget the six-course meal and the bevy of waiters swooping around your table. To really savor a beautiful fall evening in Paris, ditch the stuffy, gilded dining room and try a champagne picnic along the Seine or a melon-and-charcuterie potluck on the Champ de Mars. Paris is full of prime public spaces with great views that make superb - and free - locations for private parties. For breathtaking backdrops, the banks of the Seine rank high. Parisienne Amélie Nusse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Loveliest Dining Room | 9/30/2004 | See Source »

...rough and tumble of Australia's impending federal election campaign may seem like a picnic to Labor Party leader Mark Latham compared to the acute pancreatitis that flattened him in Sydney last week. Centered in the stomach and seeming to bore through to the spine, the pain of the ailment is "among the most severe . . . it can be overwhelming," says Ross Smith, associate professor of surgery at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. Lying down worsens the agony; only doubling over offers any relief until painkillers take effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Pain Than Politics | 8/25/2004 | See Source »

...removing litter from public squares, the city's thriving population of stray dogs is being tagged, and traffic restrictions have been enacted to ensure that at least the competitors will be able to get to the events. If it's any comfort, the ancient Games weren't a picnic for spectators either. Tony Perrottet, author of The Naked Olympics, describes the facilities in Olympia as "reminiscent of a badly planned rock concert" and the city as dirty, impossible to navigate and disease ridden. Those who hiked the 210 miles from Athens had nowhere to sleep; the one hotel was cordoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Athens: Acropolis Now | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...worse. He went for long jogs; she lost herself in the Weather Channel. Edwards began attending Bible fellowship classes. Over time, the couple pulled themselves together by focusing on how to best remember their son. They settled on a long stone bench for a picnic area at Wade's high school--designed to suggest a comet with its short but bright life. They plowed hundreds of thousands of dollars into a building across the street to provide after-school assistance to any student who needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Edwards: The Natural | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

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