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Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on tires under the Champs-Elysees and beyond.

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Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

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The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that is the way I look at the events I cover as a reporter.

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Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.

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The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

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What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

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Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

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The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.

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There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.

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Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Journalist

Born: April 12th, 1945

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