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significance, which is often directly related to geographical and institutional links with the euro area. Indeed, across many market segments, the use of the euro is most common in countries located in the broad neighbourhood of the euro area or featuring close ties with it. This special feature systematically assesses the geographical distribution of the euro’s international role in a variety of financial markets, and finds confirmation that the euro tends to be used mainly in international transactions

with such established religions as Buddhism and Taoism influenced the great diversification of sacrificial rites in China. Chinese alcoholic drinks were incorporated into such religious ceremonials, both as drinks and as libations, with festivals featuring divine states of drunkenness. In time, the sacred drink became secularized, even while its religious uses survived, and evoked public as well as private disorders. The history of China includes several abortive efforts at control or prohibition.

sequence of Romans historiques du Languedoc. Charles de Bernard (1804–50), whom Thackeray recommended to his English readers as superior to Balzac, had also begun as a historical chronicler before turning out highly coloured novels of contemporary life featuring convicts, adulteresses, aristocratic persecutors and lily-white victims. But if by 1830, basic themes, moods, narrative strategies and stereotypes were firmly in place, new horizons in fiction had been opened with Scott and Cooper. Subsequent generations

Appendix E for general information about the SFC. www.nau.com, and Polly LaBarre, “Leap of Faith,” Fast Company, June 2007, (www.fastcompany.com/magazine/116/featuresleap-of-faith.html). Many other national retailers such as REI and Home Depot are featuring new “eco-friendly” product categories. Consuming with a conscience, according to Meredith Schwartz in “Playing Fair” (Gifts & Decorative Accessories, September 1, 2007), is a growing movement that merges two previously independent concerns—how manufacturers

had his head chopped off and lived. Incredibly, the axe had missed the jugular vein and left enough of the brain stem attached to the neck for him to survive, even thrive. Mike, as he was known, became a national celebrity, touring the country and featuring inTime andLife magazines. His owner, Lloyd Olsen, charged twenty-five cents for a chance to meet “Mike the Headless Wonder Chicken” in sideshows across the United States. Mike would appear complete with a dried chicken’s head purported to be his

highly and most of them make a profit, but since good actors are willing to work with Allen for relatively little money, the films are inexpensive to make. Thus, if one happens to fail at the box office, the loss is not crushing. In contrast, a movie featuring Tom Cruise or Arnold Schwarzenegger typically begins with a cost of $10 million or more just for the star's salary. With multiples of a sum like that at stake, Hollywood studio executives tend to play it safe. POPULAR MUSIC The first major composer

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