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Col. Carl G. Davaz, USA (Ret.), was buried with military honors at the Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Wash., on Monday, March 5, 2012.

PARIS - In pâtisseries all over the City of Light, the almond meringue delicacies called macarons are proudly displayed front and center. Some might have a few macarons to choose from, usually vanilla, chocolate, coffee, pistachio and raspberry. Other very upscale pâtisseries will have gorgeous displays of macarons in colors and flavors that dazzle: anise, rose, violet, basil, salted caramel, green tea. Smooth and shiny, from palest ivory to intense fuchsia to ebony - sandwiched with a scant filling of fruit jam, ganache or buttercream - macarons are among the gems of the pastry world. They can be the size of…

If you’d like to give your chocolate-loving Valentine something homemade this year, bake a tin of deeply chocolate cookies. Make them large or small, topped with a sprinkling of sugar, or use frosting to write words of endearment. Make one very large cookie for a grand gesture. It would give you enough room for a marriage proposal or a short poem. When you make large cookies, they almost always get distorted when you transfer them to the baking sheet. It’s easier to roll the dough out on the parchment paper, then put the whole thing on the baking sheet. Cut out…

Eliot plays YMCA basketball in Eugene on Saturday, Feb. 4.

"We are all Americans" wrote Jean-Marie Colombani in LeMonde on Sept. 13, 2001, after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11. In 2002, a tree was planted at the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris to honor the victims. It's our favorite park in Paris and over the years since then we've stopped by to make a simple picture or two. This is the inscription on the plaque next to the tree: "This American oak is dedicated to the memory of the victims of September 11, 2001 in the United States of America. Gift of the American…