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...stock is in need of significant modernization. Ways need to be found to unclog saturated Parisian lines--particularly the No. 13, serving St.-Denis to the north; the No. 1 main line that all tourists use, which runs east-west from the Etoile to the Bastille; and the parallel RER commuter line. Three different plans that would cost tens of billions of dollars are being studied to renovate and extend existing Métro and commuter lines and build a circular rail link around the city, connecting its first row of suburbs and two airports...
...Arts in Philadelphia; William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum in Rockland, Me.; Shelburne (Vt.) Museum; New Britain (Conn.) Museum of American Art; Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn.; and Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, N.H. * Drybrush, used by Wyeth's mentor of the miniature, Albrecht Dürer, as early as 1450, is more like drawing than watercoloring in technique. The artist works over still wet washes of water-soluble pigment with a brush dipped in concentrated color and squeezed almost dry. The stiff bristles, flattened and frayed looking, add textures of weight and depth...
...Royal's speech was enough to give many in the audience a new sense of hope that she could reverse her recent plummet in the polls and beat Sarkozy. In the RER commuter train back to Paris, usually one of the grimmest environments of the City of Light, people were engaged in happy talk with strangers about how to improve society. "Man, wouldn't it be great if the RER was like this every day?" said one middle-aged Socialist about the camaraderie on the train. No one really thinks it could be; usually it's not just Socialists...
...alert. But Rosemary Roca ’07, who is studying abroad in Paris, said she saw little need for concern in the city itself. The study-abroad program directors “just told us to avoid the suburbs outside of Paris, and not to take the RER B, which is the train where people had been injured before†by rioters, Roca said. “But normally,†she added, “France seems to be a very safe place.†Roca said that the directors of her program, IES Paris...
...five-member commission appointed by the Swedish government to restore trust. Skandia is an especially severe psychological blow. The $4.7 billion firm is the largest insurer in the Nordic area and the oldest listed company on the Stockholm exchange. In 1999, Petersson was chosen by Veckans Affärer, a Swedish weekly business magazine, as the best CEO in Sweden. Now he's facing two serious allegations: that the three executives spent nearly $1 million of company money renovating luxury apartments, passing the charge on as repairs to the corporate headquarters; Petersson and Sp?ng are also being investigated for taking...