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...Though both cases have been assigned the lowest rating on the seven-point scale of nuclear accidents, officials are moving to protect France's nuclear reputation. Even before news of Friday's incident broke, French Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo ordered inspections of all 58 French nuclear installations and checks on radiation levels in the underground aquifers surrounding them. Borloo stressed there was no grounds to anticipate additional breaches. "I don't want people feeling we're hiding anything from them," Borloo told the daily Le Parisien...
...cycling's flagship competition adds weight to the lingering question of whether doping poses a fatal threat to this most grueling of endurance sports. French television interviewed fans in the hills above the southern French town of Lavelanet after news of Riccò's drug ouster broke. "You have to expect it by now," said one father, holding his young son in his arms. "It's sad." After Rasmussen was sent home by his Rabobank team last year for refusing to answer questions about his training regimen, daily paper France Soir declared the "death of the Tour de France...
...Seven-time Tour champion Lance Armstrong, who was never accused by race officials of doping, has had to repeatedly fend off accusations from Irish and French journalists that he broke the rules. Armstrong, who steadfastly denies any wrongdoing, was credited with revitalizing the sport, but cycling has suffered since his retirement three years...
...outcry over Mugabe's role in wrecking Zimbabwe has come a decade too late. Unleashing a reign of terror on white settlers, Mugabe confiscated the farms of non-Africans, broke the land up into small, unproductive plots and distributed it to landless Africans. As a result, Zimbabwe's agriculture is in shambles today and its economy a well-documented ruin after years of prosperity. The West, however, said nothing about this theft of land, fearing that it would be "politically incorrect" to criticize racially motivated land reform. For too long Mugabe has piggybacked on the sentiments of those sympathetic...
Last month the attorneys general in 11 states won an agreement from Anheuser-Busch to discontinue all its alcoholic energy drinks and pay $200,000 to the states. Among other concerns, the attorneys general had alleged that the company was marketing the drinks to minors. Anheuser-Busch denied it broke any laws. As investigations continue into other makers of alcoholic energy drinks, Miller Brewing issued a statement that it is standing by Sparks, the No. 1 alcoholic energy drink; in June, Miller's parent company reported that the Sparks brand had "delivered strong full-year, double-digit growth." Likewise, United...