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...study has proved that cooking with Teflon is harmful to humans. But DuPont paid $107.6 million in 2004 to settle a lawsuit brought by some 50,000 people who lived along the Ohio River near its West Virginia plant. They claimed PFOA contamination had caused birth defects and other health problems. The company admitted no liability but in December 2005 made a settlement with the EPA based on eight violations for failing to disclose its own findings on the safety of PFOA. This April, hearings began in a class action against the company by nonstick-cookware users from 15 states...
...oenophiles will make the pilgrimage to this Bacchanalian paradise, [an error occurred while processing this directive]which has been producing wine since 300 B.C. From the bustling expanse of the 18th century Place des Quinconces, Europe's biggest public square, to the café-lined quays of the Garonne River, some 12 hectares of the city of Bordeaux will be devoted to gastronomic pleasures and wine tasting. The region's 57 appellations will be on hand, including Bordeaux's prestigious reds and sweet Sauternes, but also dry whites, rosés and sparkling wines. Châteaus up and down...
Lascaux might have escaped history and its indignities if four boys rambling on a hillside just east of the Vezere River in southwestern France in 1940 had not decided to investigate an opening revealed by a fallen tree. Soon Abbe Henri Breuil, a pioneer in the study of Paleolithic cave art, arrived to inspect their extraordinary find. He theorized that Lascaux's broad galleries might indicate a magical or religious function for the drawings; Lascaux became known as the "Sistine Chapel of prehistory," and people clamored to see it. After the war, the La Rochefoucauld family, which owned the property...
...everybody’s kids, are the future. They’ve been great in the best times, and in the less good times. I think they’ve gotten a great kick out of being on the sidelines at Harvard football games, at being thrown into the River by the women’s crew, and sitting in on a class...
...first annual Paul Gilligan Memorial Road Race drew more than 300 people to the banks of the Charles River on May 6 to celebrate the “golden boy” whose laugh still echoes through Eliot House and the University’s biology labs nearly one year after his death. Paul F. Gilligan III ’05 died last June when he fell out the window of an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Participants in the 4.2-mile race were invited to make contributions to the Paul F. Gilligan III Foundation, which...