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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/113/article_3652.asp">After Japan, Korea, Morocco, India, and China, Paris’s <EM>Jardin d’acclimatation</EM> puts the US on view, at the exhibition <EM>Des Americains à Paris </EM>(Americans in Paris). </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/113/article_3652.asp">The central avenue of the park has been transformed into a typical small-town street, complete with a yellow school bus. The stands lining “Main street”  are manned by US organisations in France, including Democrats and Republicans Abroad,  the French-American Association, the scouts, as well as American bookstores, American and bilingual schools. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/113/article_3652.asp"><P>And, of course, there are a few food stands. 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