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Starbucks invades Parisian cafe culture

A form of alien civilisation has finally landed in Paris - unfamiliar green and black signs have appeared on the

Avenue de L'Opera.

It is the first Starbucks cafe to boldly go where no Starbucks has gone before, onto potentially hostile French

territory.

Its advertising posters on the Champs Elysee announce

But is the company aware of the risk it is taking by challenging the very birthplace of cafe society

how that cafe society has developed over time,

and join in that passion.

And he may be right. Despite some sniffiness in the French press, some younger French are expressing their

excitement that they will finally be able to visit the kind of cafe they love to watch on the US TV series Friends.

In fact, for some, it is an exotic rarity, far more exciting than the average French cafe.

Melissa, aged 18, says she can hardly wait:

that they're opening in Paris. I think Starbucks will be OK for French people.

An American tourist is equally excited when she spots the sign - this could be just the thing to help her get over

the occasional twinge of homesickness.

now it's come to France, and that's OK,

But that is the problem for many French, who do not want France to be just like the rest of the world: with

standardised disposal cups of coffee - identical in 7,000 branches around the world - even if they are termed

handcrafted beverages.

At the traditional cafes, customers worry that the big US coffee house chains could drive out small, family- owned

cafes.

Others here think they could come round to the idea of Starbucks, though for them it would never replace the

corner cafe or the typical Parisian petit noir coffee.

The beauty industry

The one American industry unaffeted by the general depression of trade is the beauty industry. American women

continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as they spent before the coming of the slump--about three

million pounds a week. These facts and figures are 'official', and can be accepted as being substantially true.

The modern cult of beauty is not exclusively a function of wealth. If it were, then the personal appearance

industries would have been as hit by the trade depression as any other business. But, as we have seen, they have

not

are retrenching on other things than their faces.

Women, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. Freer not only to perform the generally unenviable social

functions hithero reserved to the male, but also freer to exercise the more pleasing, feminine privilege of being

attractive. The fortunes are made justly by face-cream manufacturers and beauty- specialists, by the sellers of

rubber reducing-belts and massage machines, by the patentees of hair-lotions and the authors of books on the

culture of the abdomen.

It is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past. The

Portrait of the Artist's Mother will come to be almost indisinguishable, at future picture shows, from the Portrai

of the Artist's Daughter. The success is part due to skin foods and injections of paraffin-wax, facial surgery, mud

baths, and paint, and in part due to impoved health. So for some people, the campaign for more beauty is also a

compaign for more health. Beauty that is merely the artificial shadow of these symptoms of heslth is intrinsically

of poorer quality than the genuine article. Still, it is a sufficiently good imitation to be sometimes mistakable for

the real thing. Every middle-in-come preson can afford the cosmetic apparatus and more knowledge of the way

in which real herlth can be achieved is being universally aced upon. When that happy moment comes, will every

woman be beautiful-as beautiful, at any rate, as the natural shape of her features The answer is apparent: No,for

real beauty is as much an affair of the inner as of the outer self.

Holiday Headache

All I wanted was a cozy log cabin in the state of Maine, somewhere deep in the woods, to hang out under the

stars. It was to be my first vacation with my boyfriend, and I wanted it to be perfect.

So rather than waste money on a guidebook that was bound to be outdated before it appeared on the shelves of

my local bookstore, I decided to search online. Little did I know that when I typed the words “Maine log cabin

rental”at , I was stepping into 48 hours of Internet hell. Forget dinner, forge

t work, forget sleep. I was glued to my

computer for hours clicking from one listing to another to find the perfect hideaway.

I was wrong. The first site that I tried, , grouped rentals by region but had no map to tell me where such

romantic-sounding, plac

es as Seal Cove or Owl’s Head were. So I had to log on to

to locate each one, then

return to slogging through

site, , let me find 50 cabins and cottages right off, but most of the rentals turned out

to be closed for the winter.

I learned only after reading a lot of fine print. One day and hundreds of listings later, I was ready to throw my

computer out the window. For every 10 vacation spots I looked into, I found maybe one that sounded good and

more often than not, it was booked, too far away, or outrageously priced. Searching on line was really giving me a

finally decided to put our log-cabin Web dreams on hold and search the old-fashioned way at a bookstore. I

bought a paperback book called America’s Favorite Inns, B&Bs, and Small Hotels. I was relieve

d to see that each

city was neatly pinpointed on a detailed map, and most had good descriptions to help me figure out where in

Maine we should go in the first place.

Then I found it: an old inn on the southern coast of Maine that rented us one of its best rooms for $$100 a night.

Guess what It didn’t have a Website. I took my chances based on a good review, a great location and a bargain

price. It wasn’t a log cabin, and it was far from the woods, but there were lace curtains, a hardwood floor and a

quilt on the bed. With the ocean outside our window and a fireplace in the room, my holiday was just as cozy as I

dreamed it would be.

Arthritis all- clear for high heels

Fears that wearing high-heeled shoes could lead to knee arthritis are unfounded,say researchers.

But being overweight,smoking,and having a previous knee injury does increase the risk,the team from Oxford

Brookes Universtity found.

They looked at more than 100 women aged between 50 and 70 waiting for knee surgery, and found that choice

of shoes was not a factor

The study was published in the Journal of Epidemilology and public health.

More than 2% of the population aged over 55 suffers extreme pain as a result of osteoarthrits of the knee.

The condition is twice as common in 65-year-old women as it is in men of the same age.

Women's and men's knees are not biologically different, so the reserachers wanted to find out why twice as

many women as men develop osteoarthritis in the joint.

Some researchers have speculated tha high-heeled shoes maybe to blame.

The women in the study were quizzed on details of their height and weight when they left school, between 36

and 40 and between 51 and 55.

They were asked about injuries, their jobs, smoking and use of contraceptive hormones.

Howere, while many of these factors were linked to an increased risk over the years was not.

The researchers wrote:

a consistent finding was a reduced risk of osteoarthritis of the knee.

There was an even more pronounced link between regular dancing in three- inch heels and a reduced risk of knee

problems.

The researchers described this finding as

overturn their findings.

Disney World

Disney World, Florida, is the biggest amusement resort in the world. It covers

thousand acres, and is twice the

size of Manhattan. It was opened on October 1 1971, five years after Walt Disney’s death, and it is a larger,

slightly more ambitious version of Disneyland near Los Angeles.

Foreigners tend to associate Walt Disney with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and with his other famous

cartoon characters, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

There is very little that could be called vulgar in Disney World. It attracts people of most tastes and most income

groups, and people of all ages, from toddlers to grandpas. There are two expensive hotels, a golf course, forest

trails for horseback riding and rivers for canoeing. But the central attraction of the resort is the Magic Kingdom.

Between the huge parking lots and the Magic Kingdom lies a broad artificial lake. In the distance rise the towers

of Cinderella’s Castle. Even getting to the Magic Kingdom is quite an adventure. You have a choice of

transportation. You can either cross the lake on a replica of a Mississippi paddlewheeler, or you can glide around

the shore in a streamlined monorail train.

When you reach the terminal, you walk straight into a little square which faces Main Street. Main Street is late

19th century. There are modern shops inside the buildings, but all the facades are of the period. There are

hanging baskets full of red and white flowers, and there is no traffic except a horse-drawn streetcar and an

ancient double-decker bus. Yet as you walk through the Magic Kingdom, you are actually walking on top of a

network of underground roads. This is how the shops, restaurants and all other material needs of the Magic

Kingdom are invisibly supplied.

Secrets to a Great Life

A great life doesn’t happ

en by accident. A great life is the result of allocating your time, energy, thoughts, and

hard work towards what you want your life to

setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start setting up

your life to support success and ease.

A great life is the result of using the 24

/7 you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just what comes

next. Customize these “secrets” to fit your own needs and style, and start creating your own great life today!

1. S

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Simplify.

A great life is the result of simplifying your life. When you focus on simplifying your life, you free up energy and

time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here. In order to create a great life, you will

have to make room for it in yours first.

2. E

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Effort.