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There are dozens of naturist (Europeans prefer this word to nudist to stress its back-to-nature aspect) beaches and resorts on the Mediterranean. Naturism began here in the 1950s at a simple campground that attracted Northern Europeans who wanted to strip in the sun. It took off, however, in 1970, following the French government's decision to promote naturist resorts as a means of diversifying the economy in the face of a decline in the local fishing and winemaking industries...
...from which your after-dinner chocolate hails? That's the latest challenge facing today's gustatory snobs, who in this age of excess must find new ways to set their palates apart from those of the masses. Let them eat Milky Ways and M&M's. The true elite prefer dark chocolate, these days known as pure dark or grand cru or vintage or whatever other nomenclature specialty companies such as Sharffen Berger, E. Guittard, Michel Cluizel or Chocolove dream up. What's in a name, you ask? According to a recent survey by the National Confectioners Association, nearly...
...when Limor Livnat, a member of the Likud party, which opposes Barak, showed up to lobby reporters in the press center and complain about what she thought Barak was doing. She was firmly ushered out of the building. Lockhart said she and others could talk to reporters. "We just prefer they not do it here...
...millennium, rapid change (technological, social, cultural) has become so pervasive in American life and sometimes so difficult to absorb - think of the genome project and its implications, to cite one of a thousand examples in a world of techno-miracle and deconstructed tradition - that voters might actually prefer continuity of political leadership...
...finest players to wealthy European teams. Still, FIFA delegates continued to hold out the promise of 2010, although it's hard to see what might change in South Africa over the next four years to make soccer's disproportionately European powers-that-be more amenable. Given the choice, they prefer to play the game on home - or at least familiar - ground, hooligan hordes...