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...results of all these studies, while always enlightening, don't necessarily simplify things for scientists. A new analysis of the Cosquer cave on the French Riviera, for example, has shown that painted handprints on the walls date to 27,000 B.P., while images of horses and other animals came some 9,000 years later. Rather than being decorated in a single, prolonged burst of creativity, the cavern was painted over scores of centuries, quite possibly by artists who had no connection of any kind with one another, unlike Aborigines, whose culture has direct links to the distant past...
Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier has fallen on hard times. Following his 1986 flight from Haiti to the French Riviera, he installed his shopaholic wife Michele and their children in a palatial home near Cannes. Two years ago, Mme. Duvalier divorced him, taking the children and a large chunk of the assets. Duvalier quickly ran through his remaining funds -- once estimated at $400 million -- and now lives with his mother Simone, 80, in a scruffy villa with no telephone (cut off for unpaid bills) and a broken wire fence surrounding an unkempt garden. Last week he disappeared for parts unknown...
...electricity generated could desalinate water to irrigate the desert in the Jordan Rift valley. A regional airport near the Jordanian port of Aqaba could relieve air traffic next door in the Israeli city of Eilat; an open border would attract many more tourists to the Red Sea riviera. The electrical grids of the region could be linked to share peak loads and save billions...
...while, everything was so quiet. The first week or so of the 12-day Cannes Film Festival proceeded as sedately as a Riviera quilting bee. Nice little films from odd little countries made some brief impression on the 30,000 assembled producers, distributors and journalists, only to be filed away and forgotten. Celebrities of the high second rank -- France's Isabelle Adjani, Britain's Terence Stamp, China's Gong Li -- stopped by to promote their films and to underline, by their presence, the absence of any world- class megastars except for Clint Eastwood, who was serving as president of this...
Suicide was hardly a concern of Puller's in the summer of 1968. Back then he was trying his hardest to stay alive. Booby traps tormented him and the other soldiers deployed in the coastal region near Danang known as the Riviera. The devices were the spoor, primitive and deadly, of a mostly invisible enemy. Some were as simple as nails slathered with excrement pushed through the bottoms of discarded C-ration cans. But the booby trap Puller stepped on, while in full flight from a squad of advancing North Vietnamese regulars, was made with a howitzer shell. Puller described...