Founder of Taize is murdered.
The death of the 90-year-old founder of the Taize Community in France at the hands of a woman wielding a knife shocked world Christian leaders. Roger Schutz was killed August 16 as he prayed during a gathering of 2,500 young pilgrims at the community's center in Burgundy....

Eugene's Co-Motion Cycles pedals into French market.
Byline: RETAIL NOTEBOOK By Joe Mosley The Register-Guard Dwan Shepard and Dan Vrijmoet are preparing to go after two new markets in a couple of very different ways. First, the co-owners of Eugene's Co-Motion Cycles Inc., are invading the heartland of world bicycling when their...

Magic and Divination at the Courts of Burgundy and France: Text and Context of Laurens Pignon's `Contre les devineurs'.
Jan R. Veenstra, Magic and Divination at the Courts of Burgundy and France: Text and Context of Laurens Pignon's `Contre les devineurs' (1411), Brill Studies in Intellectual History 83 (Leiden, New York, and Cologne: Brill, 1998). xiv + 433 PP. ISBN 90-04-10925-0. N1. G. 224.00; $132.00. Confesseur...

Naissance et mort des entreprises en Europe, XIXth-XXth siecles.
edite par Michael Moss et Philippe Jobert. Dijon, Universite de Bourgogne, 1995. 213 pp. 130,-- Cet ouvrage s'inscrit dans un champ de recherche qui a debute il y a dix ou quinze ans et qui tente de renouveler l'histoire des entreprises aux [XIX.sup.e] et [XX.sup.e] siecles dans une perspective...

Rise (and falling) of the nation state.
LORDS AND THEIR LANDS The imperial armies of Ancient Rome and China conquered in the name of the emperor not the nation. In Europe in medieval times ordinary people owed their allegiance not to a state but to a feudal lord. Wars were fought between local aristocrats...

Former French Teacher Experiences France for the First Time as Grand Prize Winner in the 13th Annual Gold Kist Farms Winning Taste Recipe Contest.
ATLANTA, July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Former French teacher Julie DeMatteo of Clementon, N.J., is on her way to France for creating the grand prize winning recipe in the 13th annual Gold Kist Farms(R) Winning Taste Recipe Contest. DeMatteo's Chipotle-Honey Glazed Chicken was selected from a...

The White Mantle of the Churches: Architecture, Liturgy, and Art around the Millennium.
The White Mantle of Churches. Architecture, Liturgy and Art around the Millennium. Edited by Nigel Hiscock. International Medieval Research, 10. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003. xx + 286 pp. 75.00 [euro] paper. To begin by saying that the series in which this book appears is devoted to papers...

Lafayette, they are here! (Currents).
They've been watching their share of the US wine market dwindle for years, and now French winemakers are ready to do something about it. As they announced at wine and spirits show Vinexpo Americas in New York last November, the French wine industry has set goals for modernizing wine-making...

Low-dose Tadenan protects the rabbit bladder from bilateral ischemia/reperfusion-induced contractile dysfunction.
Abstract Recent studies indicate that focal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) can cause the contractile dysfunctions induced in animal models of partial bladder outlet obstruction. Tadenan (Pygeum africanum) pretreatment can prevent the rabbit bladder from developing the contractile and biochemical dysfunctions induced by partial outlet obstruction, possibly by protecting the...

Rivages.
Rivages by Harry Gruyaert Textuel (Paris), 2003/104 pp. 43 (10"x15") color illus.)/$65. Harry Gruyaert is to 35 mm color photography what Robert Frank is to black and white. Since he saw John Szarkowski's Eggleston show at MoMA in 1976, he has developed an astonishingly idiosyncratic style in...