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...long been popular with visitors to France, and now Florent Dargnies, a 24-year-old entrepreneur, has started a touring company that ferries passengers in and around Paris in vintage 2CVs. Dargnies got the idea for his outfit, 4roues-sous-1parapluie (four wheels under one umbrella, an allusion to the car's simple canvas roof), last spring when he was stopped by throngs of tourists while driving his own gray 2CV in Paris. "It just clicked," he remembers. He experienced his car's pulling power again in the fall while driving from Paris to Berlin. "It's a French icon...
...more of his pet devices, including the 150-gallon mixers with pneumatic pumps. Allen twists opened a valve, and sixteen ounces of Beef Bourgignon slosh into a plastic bag. Allen retracts a clamp, sealing the bag, and laterals it to Kim Hannon, CSG’s executive sous chef, bringing the brown mixture one step closer to the infamous cooling tank...
...tears were flowing as freely as the pre-show Cosmos. Hugging was becoming contagious. On screen, Carrie and Big were finding amour sous l’Eiffel, and Kim Cattrall’s clothes were coming off. It was the “end of an era,” as a friend of mine put it—and I realized I was privy to a moment of feminine bonding that I would rarely have the chance to witness with such proximity again...
...about the same, though it can run higher depending on the discovery of resources and the size of the project. But Enel is also one of the main players in a sort of ongoing Manhattan Project for geothermal. Experts for many years have been working in Soultz-sous-Forêts, France on something called Hot-Dry Rock. This process aims to simulate natural geothermal wells by strategically fracturing parts of hot subterranean rock formations to form artificial basins where water can be injected. Says Cappetti: "This is the dream. Then there would be no limit." Experiments over the past...
...digest lessons about the past. In rapid succession, Simon Schama's blockbuster A History of Britain has been followed by Adam Hart-Davis' What the Tudors and Stuarts Did for Us and David Starkey's Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Now, with the timing of a busy sous chef, Niall Ferguson, Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford University, launches Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (Allen Lane; 392 pages) upon a nation again being readied for war abroad, where the legacy of Empire is everywhere to be seen and, politically, almost nowhere to be heard...