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By Jennifer Conlin / The Bulletin
December 28, 2010
CAIRO — When Michel Pastore, a Swiss textile designer and decorator, first visited Egypt in 1970, he was instantly taken with the houseboats on the Nile.
“I really wanted to live on one, but was told only smugglers of hashish and prostitutes lived there,” said Pastore, 68.
Still, he was “so....