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...kept her top spot, with recently appointed supervisor Jean-Cyril Spinetta, chairman of Air France-KLM, backing most of her positions - even if plans for a public offering of shares in Areva, something for which Lauvergeon has long lobbied, have now been dropped. "About the only thing she hasn't gotten her way on is hearing [President] Nicolas Sarkozy say 'O.K., let's float this company,' " Elias says. "Apart from that, though, we're seeing further confirmation that she's one of the best managers in the industrial world...
...People's subpar returns dealt another body blow to its distributor, Universal Pictures. Big releases like Land of the Lost, Brüno, Duplicity and State of Play have all underperformed this year. Public Enemies has done O.K., but with its $100 million budget, the Johnny Depp crime melodrama hasn't come close to making back its costs after five weeks in North American theaters, and it's all but comatose abroad. The studio's one ginormous 2009 hit is Fast & Furious, which has earned nearly $350 million worldwide on an $85 million budget. Except for the Vin Diesel movie...
...global recession hasn't helped robots' lot. As people around the world curtail luxury spending on cars and gadgets, robots are gathering dust on factory floors, and future demand for industrial robots has dropped as Japanese production takes a nosedive. Still, this lull is unlikely to stop Japanese scientists and researchers, who will continue to develop industrial and service robots while rolling out an occasional whizzy invention or two, all in the hopes of turning science fiction fantasies - one day - into a reality...
...clean-fuel technologies - an idea that was popular with President George W. Bush but that many energy experts deride as a permanent pipe dream. Another House bill would have the Energy Department spend $30 million a year for five years on natural-gas vehicles, even though the Obama Administration hasn't sought the money and few experts believe natural gas is a smart fuel. (Watch TIME's video "The Truth About Wind Power...
...while ETA's violent tactics are now taken for granted, the reasoning behind them is harder to fathom - it's been 50 years and, still, ETA hasn't achieved its aim. "ETA is going to interpret these attacks as a show of its own strength," says Rogelio Alonso, a terrorism expert at Madrid's University of King Juan Carlos. "But it's a strength that's more fictitious than real...