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...imminent. That doesn't surprise many French business owners. "The ability to adapt [the] workforce to peak and slack periods was good, but I knew when I applied the 35-hour week that I wouldn't make new hires," says Patrick Roos, who employs 38 at his custom-made shutter company in Burgundy. Though he says he'd love to see more flexible rules, Roos predicts that reform of the 35-hour week is unlikely: "It's now considered an entitlement." That's just how most French regard the social protections that the Marseilles court backed and the arts workers...
...team set out in two SUVs on Highway 10, a four-lane strip that runs through Fallujah. Shortly before the vehicles arrived in town, according to eyewitness accounts, a small group of men in masks detonated a small explosive device, clearing the streets and prompting shopkeepers to shutter their doors. The attack, locals later said, was hardly a surprise: insurgents reportedly set up ambush points around the city, waiting to assault any foreigners who might venture in. As the Blackwater vehicles made their way down the divided road, according to reports, at least three men cut the convoy...
...like entering night - or, rather, the twilight zone. His portraits of half-clad teens offset by landscapes of twisting roads and glinting industry capture life on the cusp - between light and dark, bush and city, innocence and experience. For Henson, something dies each time he releases the camera's shutter. "It's relentlessly fascinating and powerful to me for that reason," he told Time last year. "Every photograph is a memento mori...
Hong Kong's restaurateurs would rather draw a veil over the past 12 months. The effects of SARS on the domestic and tourist markets saw many a steel shutter come down for good. Hundreds of staff were laid off (or worked unpaid). And at the height of the outbreak, going out for a meal was like visiting a clinic: a sober experience of sterile swabs and face masks. The arrival of an international culinary superstar and the continuing emergence of local ones are therefore a much needed boost for the city's recovering dining scene...
...macchiato and that there are worse problems in the world. "Yes, you've got to be philosophical about it to a certain degree," he says. "You can bang your head against the wall for a long time, but it feels really good when you stop." Then he heard a shutter click--"Oh, this one thinks he's being sneaky, f______ c__k!"--and the mood shifted. "But should I be hounded because I don't see it's my gig to live up to what I do on the screen? I mean, that's what a lot of people hound...