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...France, many Americans are drawn to the sunny Provence-Cote d'Azur region, but prices are much lower in Brittany, Normandy and central France. A fixer-upper can be found for as little as $150,000, and rentals are equally attractive. A two-bedroom ski chalet in Haute-Savoie rents for $300 a month. A one-bedroom flat in central Paris goes for about $2,000 a month, as does a four-bedroom home near the beach in Nice. "Americans can find great deals on little 19th century chateaus," says Serge Henu, director of the France Chateaux agency in Brittany...
Were you able to fix it?" someone asks. My head snaps to the right. A man in a fur hat and red ski parka pauses before answering. That's it, I think. There's some mechanical problem with the plane. My mind races ahead, spinning out of control. I hate 737s. They have bad rudders, right? Maybe there's another flight home. Or even better, I could take the train...
When the globe's rich and powerful gathered to schmooze and ski at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, two months ago, the Europeans had a certain spring in their step. Blackouts in California and chads in Florida were making the American colossus look a little silly. Europe's 2001 growth rate seemed likely to beat the Land of Greenspan's for the first time in a decade. In the members' lounge, elegantly dressed CEOs quietly talked up the coming decade of Europe...
...Were you able to fix it?" someone asks. My head snaps to the right. A man in a fur hat and red ski parka pauses before answering. That's it, I think. There's some mechanical problem with the plane. My mind races ahead, spinning out of control. I hate 737s. They have bad rudders, right? Maybe there's another flight home. Or even better, I could take the train...
...That's welcome news to the country's tourist industry. A study carried out at the University of Zurich shows that if temperatures rise by about 2?C over the next 50 years, as some experts predict, ski resorts below 1,500 m may not have enough snow to attract tourists. "In the 1970s it was still possible to ski between 800 m and 1,200 m above sea level," says Professor Hans Elsasser, coordinator of the Zurich study. "Now snow is guaranteed only above 1,200 m. We are forecasting that in the next few decades the snowline will...