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...There's been a tradition of intervention at Lascaux from the very beginning," says François Bourges, an independent hydrogeologist and expert on France's caves. South by 230 km, the Tuc D'Audoubert and Grotte des Trois Frères, caves of a similar vintage and impact as Lascaux, have never been open to the public. Count Robert Bégouën, whose father and uncles found the caves on the family's Pyrenean estate in the years just before World War I, continues a family tradition that decrees no one enters either cave without...
...Landes and two other coastal departments to the north. Even though farm-raised ducks are commonly vaccinated against other diseases, farmers fear that vaccinating against bird flu will just further alienate consumers. "Anybody who has the space to confine their ducks is doing that instead of vaccinating," says Frédéric André, head of health and animal protection for the Vendée. Chickens aren't yet being vaccinated, but Michel Laffitte says he'll do whatever the authorities ask of him. He has moved the feeding apparatuses for his flocks - he has 16,000 Naked Neck...
...French fans have released a cockerel - the French national emblem - during the game. But last week, an official declared: "Any smuggled bird is a risk." ZOO STORIES Lacking any international standards, European zoos are devising their own strategies for dealing with possible outbreaks - some grimmer that others. Zookeepers at Frösö Zoo in central Sweden have said they are prepared to put down all of its 500 birds, including flamingos, if H5N1 enters the country. WORLD CUP Soccer fans were shaken last week when the German media relayed doubts over the 2006 World Cup Finals in Germany. Both...
...Dardenne, did at Saturday night's closing ceremony. But the festival organizers, like the rubberneckers outside the Palais, are smitten by star quality. Sharon Stone, one of the few Hollywood actresses adept at radiating that old-time sexual allure, was seen and photographed everywhere. Chief programmer Thierry Frémaux made a point of inviting small films brandishing major marquee names, like Amos Gitai's Israeli drama Free Zone, with Portman as an American taking a risky trip deep into Jordan. (But her driver in the film, Hanna Laslo, won the Best Actress prize.) And when the creator...
...main concern was that a reunified Germany be firmly anchored in a unified Europe. "One can discuss Mitterrand's ethics or morals, but no one can discount his absolute belief in European unity," says Schabert, author of Mitterrand et la Réunification Allemande. University of Nantes historian Frédéric Bozo, whose broader work on Mitterrand's foreign policy at the end of the cold war will be released in May, also comes to a positive judgment. "As a politician he could be sneaky, but as a diplomat he was straightforward, coherent and underestimated," he says...