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Whatever Ernest Hemingway may have written, Paris is in fact an immovable feast - at least when it comes to the height of its buildings. The city still proudly retains its 19th century skyline, from the Arc de Triomphe and Sacré Coeur to that most universally recognized of structures, the Eiffel Tower. Central Paris has no high-rises and most of the residential neighborhoods mirror the human scale of the Seine, which lacks the brawn of the Thames or the Rhine. This is no accident. The French capital is still largely drawn along the imperial lines laid down by Parisian...
...Hefner?s early bolt of gonadal genius was the gatefold. The center of the magazine kept opening, like the promise of erotic deliverance on a summer night, until the 24-inch Playmate photo was displayed - more than a third of her actual height, and four times the size of a shot in the cheap magazines. Foldouts were a feature of Life as well, but those were typically illustrations of the Stone Age, suitable for schoolroom use. Hefner had in mind a more tactile edification. His Playmate centerfolds, in addition to giving males the opportunity to strengthen their eye-hand coordination...
During the height of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic last spring, researchers emphasized that basic infection control and personal responsibility were vital to check the spread of the disease. Maybe they should have taken their own prescription. The latest SARS patient, a medical researcher and lieutenant colonel in Taiwan's army surnamed Chan, apparently contracted the disease in a SARS research lab on Dec. 6. Authorities in Taiwan believe Chan was in a rush to catch a plane to Singapore for a medical conference and hurriedly cleaned up a spill in his lab from a leaky waste...
...kind that defy the passing of seasons and trends. You pay less, without having to worry whether they'll remain cutting edge a year down the road. Here are our top five picks for boots that will see you through the next few years. The prices are from the height of the autumn season: now, you should look for discounts...
...true but that it is made. Americans use their history, from the Mayflower to Martin Luther King Jr., to fashion a narrative that they imagine is an inspiration to all those outside their shores. No one else can do this or has shown much inclination to try. At the height of Japan's economic power in the late 1980s, few Japanese ever claimed that they had discovered a set of eternal truths of universal application. In any case, what would the texts of Japanese modernity have been - The instructions for a karaoke machine? Europeans, too, lack the inspiring symbols with...