Grape-harvest dates hold climate clues. (Earth Science).
The vintner's age-old habit of picking no grapes before their time may give scientists a tool for determining European climate patterns for the past 500 years. Grapevines are particularly sensitive to the temperature and amounts of precipitation they're exposed to at various phases of their 2-year fruit-production...

Religion Roundup.
Byline: The Register-Guard An all-community interfaith prayer service will be held at 7 p.m. today at First Christian Church, 1166 Oak St. A potluck cookie fellowship will follow. For information, call 344-5693. The Oakridge Community Christian Fellowship will hold a luncheon meeting at 11:30 a.m....

Augusto Roa Bastos: outwitting reality.
Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguay's preeminent writer, is one of the most complex and gifted writers of the post-Boom generation of Latin American novelists. An unassuming individual who has labored much of his career in relative obscurity, he characterizes himself, without rancor, as a perpetual exile, having lived half a...

The careers of graduates of the Ecoles d'Arts et Metiers in the French automobile industry, 1880-1940.
This article examines the careers of graduates of the Ecoles Nationales d'Arts et Metiers employed in the French automobile industry from the late nineteenth century to 1940. Since publishing a book on the Ecoles d'Arts et Metiers in 1987 (translated and published in France in 1991), I have found...

CALENDAR
28-29 May 1998, Glasgow, Scotland, UK TECHNIQUES FOR BIOTECHNOLOGISTS: A STATE OF THE ART OVERVIEW Contact: Mrs. Julia Campbell, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences Commercial Short Courses Coordinator, Davidson Building, University of Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK; tel: +44-141-330-3550; fax: +44-141-330-4620; e-mail: JE.Campbell@bio.gla.ac.uk 14-19 June 1998, Capri,...

Lakme.
DESSAY, KUNDE, VAN DAM, HAIDAN, LEGUERINEL, Choeur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson, conductor. EMI Classics 5 56569 2 (2 CDs). LAKME WAS WRITTEN FOR A YOUNG AMERICAN saprano named Marie van Zandt. Although criticized for her accent, the premiere at the Opera Comique in...

Selections by Catalani, Puccini, Verdi, Dvorak, Mozart, Bizet, Gounod, Falla & J. Strauss.
MANON FEUBEL IS A NEW NAME, AND PERHAPS a surprising candidate for a solo debut album at this stage of her career. The Quebec soprano graduated from the Montreal Conservatoire in 1990, was a finalist in the Luciano Pavarotti competition in 1992 and came third in the Toulouse Concours...

France.
During the 18th century, France became an international focus for the advancement of science. French became the international scientific language, finally supplanting Latin, and scholars from across Europe and America traveled to Paris for the purpose of refining their education and meeting the great teachers of chemistry, mineralogy and crystallography....

Terrain: (Danser).
Terrain, Danser , no 35, septembre 2000, 173 p., photogr., ref. Que la normativite soit inherente a la conquete de son logos par l'anthropos, voila ce que la danse en tant que phenomene langagier vient mettre en scene. Et en ce sens elle a ete admise au...

The Ceremonial City: Toulouse Observed, 1738-1780.
Writing municipal history has provided the first stepping stone to many academic careers and Toulouse, regional capital of south-western France, displays a particularly rich bibliography of such studies. In 1989 Robert A. Schneider published Public Life in Toulouse 1463-1789: From Municipal Republic to Cosmopolitan City. The present work presents...