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...attracts more readers, but what about the country's success? Raphael F. Rousseau, LYON, FRANCE Congratulations on your insightful piece. While I fully agree with your analysis of why young French people in particular leave their country in order to find better career prospects elsewhere, one must not lose sight of two facts: tens of thousands of British people, including myself, have come to France to settle down in their retirement, and France remains the No. 1 tourist destination in Europe. In other words, the French are getting some things right. As for changing things in überconservative France...
...first sign that we are entering a dead zone is the carcass of a camel, gathering flies and red dust. Since camels can go for three weeks without water, according to local farmers, the heap of fur, hair and bleached bones is an ominous sight. We enter a mud-walled, straw-roofed village. Instead of offering the usual smiles and waves, the children duck away. The reason for the villagers' fear becomes evident a few minutes later: nine turbaned men on horseback, members of the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed, appear with rifles over their shoulders. We are gone...
...vain. Then, at 4 a.m. on April 26, they saw land. The three ships sailed into Chesapeake Bay and found, in the words of one voyager, "fair meadows and goodly tall trees, with such fresh waters running through the woods, as I was almost ravished at the first sight thereof." They picked an island in a river for a fortified outpost and named it after their king, James...
...billion photographs are snapped each week-blogged, harbored in albums or, just as inevitably, consigned to refuse bins at the sight of an unflattering haircut. It is these rustling forests of lost and discarded images that concern photo historian Michel Frizot and photography professor Cédric de Veigy. Their Photo Trouvée, recently published by Phaidon, brings together 285 anonymous, amateur snapshots, salvaged from flea markets and antique shops over the past 20 years. Behind every one is a delicious enigma: Who captured...
...hand, she's leading a rather glitzy life and shopping at high-end stores and buying a big house and her husband's very successful. But actually deep down, she's still just the girl who loves her parents and comes from a normal family, and she never loses sight of that...