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Offers world news briefs related to business as of December 27, 2001. Lower profit expectations for Brazilian paper exporter Aracruz Celulose; Hints of an economic upturn for Singapore's economy; Fall in prices for French manufacturers; Approval for a construction project overlooking the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; Others.

The article discusses the first publication of the satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" following a terrorist attack on the paper's offices in Paris, France by Islamic extremist militants. Topics addressed include debate over whether the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad on the paper's cover should be considered offensive, as well as considerations of freedom of speech.

The article discusses "Charlie Hebdo," a French satirical newspaper, highlighting a terrorist attack on the paper's offices in Paris, France and its reputation for provocative content. Topics addressed include the paper's satire of Islam and caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, the paper's defense of freedom of the press and its resistance to terrorist threats, and the views of the paper's editor Stéphane Charbonnier.

PARIS -- Google, which organizes the world's information digitally, is linking up with a precursor that aimed to do something similar, on paper. It plans to announce Tuesday that it is forming a partnership with a museum in Mons, Belgium, dedicated to a long-ago venture to compile and index knowledge in a giant, library-style card catalog with millions of entries -- an analog-era equivalent of a search engine or Wikipedia. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PAUL-FRANCOIS FOURNIER, an executive at France Telecom in Paris, thinks he may have found a way to help revive the ailing newspaper industry. It comes in a black, plastic, rectangular box with a screen the size of a sheet of paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Features the Musée du Papier Peint, a museum dedicated to wallpapers in the suburb of Rixheim in France.

The 2,000 illegal immigrants camped in this vacant warehouse are not hiding. Quite the contrary. These West Africans, Turks, Pakistanis and Chinese have done all they can to publicize their camp, a sprawling colony of mattresses and cardboard, quilts and concrete at 14, rue Baudelique, in the 18th Arrondissement. They march every Wednesday, distributing fliers, hanging banners and hoping to rally public support as they petition the state for legal status. It is a gamble, though, a knowing admission of guilt: they are seemingly flirting with deportation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The police in southern France on Thursday seized a cache of false identity documents they say they think belong to the militant Basque separatist group ETA, bringing to 14 the number of ETA-linked supply depots uncovered in France in the past eight days. Working with Spanish intelligence, French authorities have seized nearly one ton of explosives and bomb-making chemicals, stolen firearms and rounds of ammunition buried in remote stashes. The discoveries indicate that ''attacks were indeed under preparation,'' Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux, said Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the threat of a terrorist group to bomb the railway network in France. Name of the group; Publication of letters containing the bomb threat in the newspaper "Le Monde"; Measures being taken by government authorities regarding the terrorist threat.

Reports on the efforts of French newspapers to urge voters to reject far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen and give President Jacques Chirac a landslide victory during the presidential elections on May 5, 2002.

Reports that striking workers shut down national dailies in France to protest a French government deficit-cutting plan that will phase out special tax breaks for members of about 100 professions. Features of the policy; Newspapers affected by the strike; Unemployment figures in France.

It is no small thing to make a hedgehog. The first time Eric Joisel tried it, it took nearly six years. But what a hedgehog it turned out to be: folded from a single sheet of paper, each crenellation sharp as the crease in a new pair of trousers, it captures the very essence of hedgehogness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on France's advancement towards including access to abortion as a "guaranteed freedom" in its Constitution, driven in part by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.

The article reports that delivery app couriers in France such as Uber Eats, Glovo, and Deliveroo hire workers who lack working papers in June 2019. Topics discussed include the job opportunity grabbed by migrant Aymen Arfaoui, the popularity of food delivery services, and the income generated by couriers.

PARIS - Adored by many, reviled by some, offensive to most everyone, the French satirical weekly called Charlie Hebdo has long reveled in the arch, if simple, art of provocation. Its pages are filled with vulgar caricatures and caustic humor, lampooning politicians, entertainers and media personalities of all stripes, and the newspaper has found itself a frequent presence at Paris courts, accused on several dozen occasions of defamation or inciting hate. The world's religions have also been favorite targets of the paper, this being France, where state-mandated secularism is a sort of religion of its own. The cover page of one recent issue featured a cartoon of three rolls of toilet paper, labeled Bible, Koran and Torah, and the headline: ''In the toilet, all the religions.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Journalists at Le Monde, one of France's most authoritative newspapers, went on strike for only the second time in its 64-year history to protest planned cuts in newsroom staff. Like other papers, Le Monde is struggling with losses. Management announced this month that the paper would let go a quarter of its 340 journalists. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the impact of a terrorist attack on the offices of satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris, France, highlighting debate amongst satirists and cartoonists over the paper's use of free speech. Topics addressed include publications of depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in "Charlie Hebdo," considerations of the line between satire and provocation, and the views of cartoonists and journalists such as Joe Sacco and Tom Spurgeon.

The article discusses a terrorist attack on the offices of the French satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris, France in which 12 people were killed, noting the surrender of suspect Hamyd Mourad and the escape of suspects Said Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi. Topics addressed include the attackers' Islamic extremist motivations, as well as the killing of cartoonists and editors working for the paper.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues in January 2015 including "With New Cover of French Paper, New Set of Fears" , "'France Without Jews Is Not France''," and "Veteran's Campaign Would Rein In Disability Pay."

The article reports on the deportation of a 15-year-old girl Leonarda Dibrani by the police officers in Paris, France in which the operations are mishandled due to the lack of sensitivity and immigration papers.

CANNES, France -- At one point in ''On the Road,'' Walter Salles's respectable, muted take on Jack Kerouac's ecstatic American story, Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), who has trailed after his friends Carlo and Dean, watching them cavort in a handsomely lighted gutter and atmospheric slum pads, delivers what should be a cri de coeur. ''The only people that interest me,'' Sal says in voice-over, with Mr. Riley scatting out the famous words, ''are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing ... but burn, burn, burn like Roman candles across the night.'' Yet these boys scarcely simmer. ''On the Road,'' one of the most anticipated competition selections at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, had its press premiere on Wednesday morning and was received with well-behaved applause, a low-pulse response for a low-pulse endeavor. Written by Jose Rivera, the script has been extracted from both the 1957 novel and the 1951 scroll version, so named because Kerouac pounded it out on 120 taped-together sheets of tracing paper. That version, published in 2007 as ''On the Road: The Original,'' uses real names like Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, which were changed for the novel to avoid libel charges. Some of the voice-over is taken right from the scroll: in the novel, for instance, Kerouac added ''mad to be saved'' to the qualities he ticked off in that brightly burning sentence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE French language is justly renowned for its clarity and precision. Yet on a seemingly simple matter its speakers stumble into a fog -- who or what can be defined as French? The question arose afresh in the wake of the Toulouse killings. No one doubted that the perpetrator was 23-year-old Mohammed Merah, a native son of Algerian descent. But was Mr. Merah French? Impossible, declared four members of Parliament belonging to President Nicolas Sarkozy's center-right party. In a joint statement, they insisted that Mr. Merah ''had nothing French about him but his identity papers.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Hindsight may always be 20/20, but the clarity of Simon Van Booy's ''Hindsight'' is much harder to determine. On paper, the story has a chance: An older woman and a younger one meet on a Paris park bench, exchanging wary confidences that slide into a surreal examination of a life not yet lived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There were garlicky escargots in ramekins, liquorish-scented pastis in glasses and pommes frites in wax-paper sleeves along the bar at a bistro in TriBeCa on Wednesday night - all tossed back by scores of French and French-loving patrons under a ceiling clustered with blue, white and red balloons. They raised glasses of rose to July 14, Bastille Day. At the bistro, Cercle Rouge, one of several French restaurants that line a three-block stretch of West Broadway, tricolor bunting that elsewhere would have been hokey Americana took on a Parisian flair. Beneath it, patrons drank wine and buttered their baguettes. Servers wore T-shirts emblazoned with ''I heart petanque,'' a French version of bocce. In a Godardesque vignette, a patient little rust-colored dog named Leon sat under a foosball table. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS -- The fate of the iconic French newspaper Le Monde will be decided by its board on Monday, with some of the paper's journalists fearing that they will lose control to a group of investors backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy. Le Monde needs money badly. One of the few prominent newspapers in the world controlled by its own journalists, it is smothering under indifferent management, declining advertising revenues, divided ownership and a slagheap of debt. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS WHEN Big Brother regimes crumble, they sometimes leave an unintended paper trail, a pathway into the dark tradecraft of oppression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unlike today's aspring artists, for those in pre-20th-century France the path to success was pretty clear. ''Becoming an Artist: The Academy in 19th-Century France'' explains the rigid system by which careers were made. (The show was organized by the peripatetic Dahesh Museum of Art, which is still seeking a home of its own.) The academy required three years of drawing, followed by painting under a recognized master's tutelage and, finally, winning the Prix de Rome. There is more to learn about the process from this compact show, but the main attraction is in the surprising number of mostly small, beautifully made paintings and drawings on display. The academicians liked to illustrate ancient stories, and there's a good one by the ever-lubricious Jean-Leon Gerome. In a laptop-size oil-on-paper study made with a fine, sensuous touch, King Candaules watches his voluptuous wife, Queen Rodolphe, disrobe in the royal bedchamber. Unknown to her, the king's lieutenant Gyges watches from the shadows. As the legend goes, when she discovers that the hidden voyeur was there at the invitation of the king, who wanted to show off her beauty, she became enraged and gave the interloper the choice of dying or killing the king and marrying her. He chose the latter. Truly an edifying tale. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Newspapers have tried many things to stave off a seemingly relentless decline in readers. Now France is pushing forward with a novel approach: giving away papers to young readers in an effort to turn them into regular customers. The government on Tuesday detailed plans of a project called ''My Free Newspaper,'' under which 18- to 24-year-olds will be offered a free, yearlong subscription to a newspaper of their choice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

France in Mexico? There were armed conflicts between the two countries in the mid-19th century, but today the French incursion amounts to crepes at dozens of stores, stands and even movie theaters. Andres Mier y Teran, from Mexico City, lived in Paris and decided that crepes would be a big hit in Mexico. He and his two brothers are now partners in La Crepe Parisienne; they own a few of these creperies, have franchised others and have an outpost in SoHo. FOLLOW THE FOLD Generous savory and sweet crepes are served in paper cones to eat on the run or at tables. Fillings, which are layered in as the crepes are folded, are typical of what you find in Paris, though a mushroom and cheese crepe, made above by Patricia Chu, comes with fresh baby spinach leaves poking out. The savory crepes are not made with buckwheat flour as they would be in France because Mr. Mier y Teran has not found a satisfactory supplier as yet. To bring Mexico into the mix, one crepe has dulce de leche filling. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Surrounded by a moat and four watchtowers, the ancient Chateau d'Ermenonville is not the kind of place one would associate with a product as mundane as paraffin. But the discreet European luxury hotel, about 40 minutes outside Paris, was one in a circuit of hotels that served as bases for more than a dozen years for executives from some of the biggest names in oil to fix prices of paraffin, the wax byproduct of crude oil that is used in candles, paper cups, lip balm and chewing gum. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

France has rejected a plan to participate in a joint charter flight with Britain to deport to Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, 43 Afghans found without papers near Calais, officials said Tuesday. Geoffroy Didier, an adviser to the immigration minister, said France would not accept Britain's offer to join one of its deportation flights to Afghanistan. He said the Immigration Ministry was working with the United Nations refugee agency, which had recommended no deportations of women, children or Afghans who come from dangerous regions of their homeland. In London, the British Border Agency would not comment on whether the flight would proceed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I once lived in rural France for half a year, in a region of southern Burgundy known to epicures for its fine cattle and wine. It was also known for being the French boondocks -- we got the feeling from Parisian friends that they thought we were living somewhere vaguely akin to a suburb of Binghamton. Indeed, driving to the closest supermarket took close to half an hour, sometimes longer on the occasions when my husband and I realized, 10 minutes into the drive, that we'd forgotten our plastic bags and had to turn right around to get them. My husband and I weren't particularly green at the time, which was seven years ago. Nor was anyone else in that rural part of France, as far as we could tell. What they were was frugal. ''Everyone has porcupines in their pockets,'' a neighbor there once told me -- in other words, it really hurt to reach for their wallets. That mattered when it came to plastic bags, because you had to pay for them at the store. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Russell Shorto met Rene Descartes at the Musee de l'Homme, the anthropology museum in Paris. Mr. Shorto gives no physical description of himself during this 2005 encounter. As for Descartes, he emerged from a white paper wrapping within a wooden box. And he had been scribbled on in both Latin and Swedish. At that moment, more than 350 years after his death, Descartes existed as a partial skull with a checkered, peripatetic history. ''Voila le philosophe'' (''Here is the philosopher''), the museum's director of conservation said to Mr. Shorto. Many strains of thought converge around Descartes and his physical remains. Although those thoughts are scattered and by no means linear, Mr. Shorto has used them as the basis of an investigative book, one that goes off on frequent philosophical, historical and forensic tangents. That leaves ''Descartes' Bones'' less substantial than ''The Island at the Center of the World,'' Mr. Shorto's superlative history of 17th-century Dutch Manhattan. But both books attest to Mr. Shorto's intellectual adventurousness and dogged curiosity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

''The yellow jersey gives you wings.'' That has been the past week's mantra for Carlos Sastre and other members of the CSC Saxo Bank team. At least on paper, the CSC team appeared to be at a severe disadvantage against the prerace favorite, Cadel Evans of Silence-Lotto, if the victory in the Tour de France came down to the final time trial. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At the start line, children in team caps and jerseys waved promotional flags as they crowded around the steps to our team bus. They were looking for autographs, a team water bottle, a free team cap, a handshake or a snapshot. They knew our names, had our team cards and had watched us on television through the week as we raced through their countryside. We have been in Austria, racing the Tour of Austria, and the Tour de France has seemed very secondary. The riders here mention the Tour de France in conversations. The announcers mention it briefly over the microphone. But although the local papers cover the action in France, they give preference to the Austrian event. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on cardboard furniture maker Eric Guiomar. While working as a photographer in Paris, France in the year 1993, Guiomar made an armchair by using cardboard boxes. He sells cardboard furniture and organizes classes related to cardboard furniture making at the Bleuzen studio in Paris. He has made the educational film "How Things Are Made: Cardboard Furniture."

The article reports on a French court's ruling in a case related to publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the weekly newspaper "Charlie Hebdo." The court ruled in favor of the newspaper which was facing charges from two Muslim groups, the Paris Mosque and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France. The plaintiff had accused the paper of abusing a group of people publicly because of their religion. The newspaper had published 12 controversial drawings on February 8, 2006.

The article presents information on Chanel plastic carryall, the latest plastic carrybags for ladies with chain handles and a signature double-C charm. The bags are also available in leather and satin. The bags were first spotted in Paris, France. They are a status symbol for shoppers in Madison and Fifth Avenues. One has to wait for months to buy one like these.

The article presents information about political unrest in France over a plan to expel school children without proper residency papers.

Reports on the resignation of long time editor in chief of "Le Monde" newspaper in France. Reasons given for his decision by Edwy Plenel who has presided over the newspaper for nearly nine years; Reaction of some of the journalists at "Le Monde"; Paper which has been losing circulation and advertising revenue; Background on Plenel; Belief that the resignation will spur the reorganization of the French press.

Deals with the conviction of Islamic militants in Paris, France for their roles in channeling arms and false identity papers to insurgents fighting to topple the government in Algeria.

Provides information on the study `Grid of the Future White Paper on Accommodating Uncertainty in Planning and Operations,' by Sandia Laboratories which judged the probability of risks to the power system in the United States. Use of risk assessment software; Advantages of probability predicting software in predicting future power needs.

Reports that four African immigrants have taken up residence at the Papal Nuncio in Paris, France, refusing to leave until the Socialist Government of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin agrees to issue legal papers to them. Relationship between Jospin and the four immigrants; Why the immigrants were expelled from the Roman Catholic Church of Saint Bernard de la Chapelle in August, 1996; Promise by former President Alain Juppe to change restrictive immigration laws in France.

Reports French officials' interest in the December 1999 arrest, by United States customs officials in Seattle, Washington, of Ahmed Ressam. His connection to a group of Islamic radicals believed to be involved in 1996 terrorist attacks in France and to Fateh Kamel, an Algerian veteran of the Afghan war; Efforts of officials to learn his purpose for the explosives he is accused of bringing into the US; Acquisition of false identification papers; Details.

Comments on the study by Dr. Pierre Jouannet of the Center for the Study of the Conservation of Human Eggs and Sperm in Paris that sperm counts among fertile men are declining. Details of the paper and views of experts on the issue.

Comments on the problems facing the French newspaper industry. Aims of editor of French daily Liberation; Performance of national dailies since 1990; Circulation fall in several papers; Effect on Le Monde; Challenge to Le Monde and Liberation; Impact of television on newspaper advertising.

Declares the expulsion by France of five American diplomats on allegations of political and economic espionage and looks at its impact on the diplomatic relations between the two countries. Details of the spying operation as reported by the French paper Le Monde on February 22, 1995; Speculation over the scandal.

Reports on a promise by France's Socialist Government to review requests for residency papers by illegal immigrants who were threatened with deportation. Government's campaign pledge to relax the country's tough immigration policies; Anti-immigration laws that the Government plans to revoke.

Reports on the demonstrations carried out in Strasbourg, France on March 28, 1997, where residents threw scraps of black paper from a cathedral in that city to protest a meeting held by the National front Party. What the scraps symbolized.

Describes the author's pleasure in setting a dining table with luxurious plates, silver, glassware, and linen. Reference to a book by Suzanne Von Drachenfels, "The Art of the Table;" Porcelain plates manufactured by Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur in Germany; Chrystal glassware by Baccarat from France; Linen napkins manufactured by the Irish Linen Company in London; English handmade silver by James Robinson Inc.; Importance of designs that enhance the food rather than overwhelm it; Tips concerning the purchase of the items.