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...want renewables to account for 15% of the world's total energy production by 2010; the Americans object to such deadlines, preferring partnerships with industry, environmental groups and local governments. But the U.S. did promise to spend $1 billion to relieve poverty and protect natural resources. FRANCE Sanctuary The Roman Catholic basilica of St. Denis, on the outskirts of Paris, is playing host to a growing number of illegal immigrants demanding work and residency papers. Since the movement began in mid-August, the numbers of sans-papiers (those without papers) occupying the church has grown to around 2,000, raising...
...August begins and hotels from Menton to Théoule proclaim they are complet (full). The history of Nice, affectionately charted by Robert Kanigel in High Season in Nice (Little, Brown; 309 pages), effectively mirrors the history of tourism. From small beginnings as a Greek fishing village and Roman frontier outpost, the town developed slowly until the late 18th century, when the continent, for a change, was at peace and wealthy Europeans started to travel in search of different art, culture - and weather. The following century saw Nice inundated with French, English and Russian aristocrats. In La Belle Epoque Nice...
...enthusiasm for massage, a practice at least as old as grooming? (Earliest known spa: the Roman bath.) Many therapists attribute it to people's greater awareness of the effect stress has on health, and the wider acceptance of alternative or complementary medicine. Then there's the Pashmina effect, wherein goods and services originally marketed to the very rich become repackaged for the mass market. And some point to the isolation and lack of physical contact in contemporary society, where much communication is done electronically and any touch could be considered inappropriate. "People don't touch that much. They're watching...
Iain Pears' The Dream of Scipio (Riverhead; 398 pages) ticks along at a slower, statelier pace, more like a grandfather clock. Set in Provence, it tells three stories from three eras that unfold in parallel: a 5th century Roman sophisticate faces the fall of his empire; a Renaissance man stares down the Black Death; and a French classicist watches as his country is overrun by the Germans in World War II. The thread connecting these three men is an ancient philosophical manuscript that each man encounters, but the real bond among them is that they face a common paradox. Civilization...
...approach to assessing cease-fire breaches. Prime Minister Tony Blair told M.P.s that particular weight would be given to any evidence that paramilitaries are engaged in training and targeting and the acquisition or development of weapons. The announcement came during a week of continuing sectarian violence in which a Roman Catholic man, Gerald Lawlor, 19, was killed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a Loyalist terror group. FRANCE Spy Chief Sacked President Jacques Chirac fired the head of France's foreign intelligence service, the DGSE. The spy agency is accused of launching a probe that resulted in two reports...