Feasts of St. Therese, Rosary celebrated by Catholics today.
Byline: CHRISTINA I. HERMOSO The Catholic Church, the Carmelite congregation, and Marian devotees celebrate today the feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus declared by the Church as the "greatest saint of modern times and the prodigy of miracles." Today being Oct. 1, Catholics...

Le Theatre de Thomas Kilroy. .
Thierry Dubost, Le Theatre de Thomas Kilroy. Caen (France): Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2001. [euro]10.67. Le Theatre de Thomas Kilroy by Thierry Dubost is the first volume in an exciting new series on contemporary Irish playwrights launched by the University Press of Caen, one of the leading...

NO GRAND PRIZE IN PARIS.
An audible sigh of disappointment swept through spectators at the ninth biennial Paris International Dance Competition when, on December 2, the classical dance jury announced that no contestant would walk away with the Grand Prize of the City of Paris and its 40,000 francs ($5,400) in prize money. There...

Summer Mortality of Crassostrea gigas (thunberg) in relation to environmental rearing conditions.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate summer mortality of the cupped oyster, Crassostrea gigas, in relation to culture practices in the traditional oyster production region of Marennes-Oleron (France). Four oyster rearing conditions, varying culture location ("on-" or "off-bottom"), and site depth (65% to 80% daily immersion...

The geography of knowledge spillovers between high-technology firms in Europe: evidence from a spatial interaction modeling perspective.
The focus in this article is on knowledge spillovers between high-technology firms in Europe, as captured by patent citations. The European coverage is given by patent applications at the European Patent Office that are assigned to high-technology firms located in the EU-25 member states (except Cyprus and Malta), the...

Ecophysiological and metabolic adaptations to sulphide exposure of the oyster Crassostrea gigas.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the response of the oyster Crassostrea gigas to sulphide at different biological scales. A first experiment was designed to measure for 20 h the clearance (CR) and oxygen consumption (OC) rates of oysters exposed at different concentrations of sulphide (0,...

Pay inequality in Europe 1995-2000: convergence between countries and stability inside.
Abstract This paper measures pay inequality in the EU during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. The decomposability property of Theil's T statistic permits us to construct a three-level hierarchical panel data set of pay inequalities for the years 1995-2000: between and within regions, countries, and...

The French referendum.
WHAT is this 'Europe' of which we are accustomed to speak, the latest blueprint for which has been so decisively rejected by the voters in France and the Netherlands? Is it merely the grandiose ambition of functionaries and politicians or something with a deeper resonance, capable of stirring the...

Market openness and geographical concentration of agricultural and agro-food activities: the challenges for French regions./L'ouverture du marche et la concentration geographique des activites agricoles et agro-alimentaires: les defis pour les regions francaises.
Abstract The aim of this article is to analyze the impact of market openness on the geographical concentration of agricultural and agro-food activities between various regions of France. Production which is the most exposed to international competition tends to be concentrated between regions. In prospective terms, the...

Republicanism and the politics of citizenship in Germany and France: convergence or divergence?
Abstract In this article it is argued that the models of German citizenship are quite dynamic and evolving. The German tradition today is more in line with the French and U.S. republican model of jus soli citizenship than the ascriptive jus sanguinis. The analysis concludes that legislation...