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For these reasons the modern age of deep-sea exploration had to wait for two key technological developments: engineer Otis Barton's 1930 invention of the bathysphere--essentially a deep-diving tethered steel ball--and the invention of scuba (short for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus") by Jacques-Yves Cousteau...
America's federal stinginess with the arts and humanities does it immense discredit. By contrast, every candidate in the last French election, from the socialist Lionel Jospin to the conservative victor Jacques Chirac, agreed that fully 1% of France's state budget should be set aside for culture. This will...
As the Serbs attacked Zepa and then Gorazde, French President Jacques Chirac proposed a counteroffensive, or at least a reinforcement of Gorazde, with French troops to fly in aboard American helicopters. That got President Bill Clinton's attention, since he is still determined to keep the U.S., especially its ground...
French authorities are furiously searching for those responsible for the deadly bombing of a Paris subway train during rush hour Tuesday -- an attack that claimed seven lives and left 84 people injured. The bomb, triggered by a timer, exploded at 5:30 p.m. as the train pulled into the Saint...
Just days after conquering Srebrenica, theBosnian Serb armyshelled the town of Zepa, ten miles to the southwest, one of the last Muslim areas left in eastern Bosnia. French President Jacques Chirac called for immediate armed intervention to retake and protect the safe areas, saying "It is essential that we put...