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...revealing job reductions planned for France's mammoth public school system, Education Minister Luc Ferry rushed to placate teachers' unions with assurances that only administrative posts would be cut. Budget Minister Alain Lambert and Economy Minister Francis Mer have similarly been at odds on fiscal policy. Their most notable mixup arose over possible tax cuts in 2003?a must if Chirac's extravagant campaign pledge to reduce taxes by 30% before 2007 is to be met, but a difficult task during an economic downturn. Such floundering has led some pundits to dub Raffarin's team "the Laurel and Hardy government...
...with Starlink, the effects are greater than any computer chip mixup. Upon close scrutiny, though, this episode corroborates the view that GM biotechnology fails in both its short term and long term goals. In the short term, apart from the fact that the allergens were not supposed to be in the food in the first place, their presence defeats any notions of increased agricultural productivity. Anyone who's ever suffered from a food allergy will agree that they'd prefer to have less food than something that will send them into shock...
...That would be a devastating setback for the agency's ambitious program of sending a lander and an obiter craft to Mars every 26 months. The failure of another $100 million probe just months after the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost as a result of the now-infamous metric mixup could mean an entire rethinking of NASA's "faster, better, cheaper" strategy, and threaten congressional support for the whole Mars project. Already the criticisms have begun: That scientists were lulled by the easy success of the Pathfinder mission into launching a much less adaptable probe that needed everything...
...landing time, 3:01 p.m. EST. But NASA failed to receive a signal from the craft during the first 20-minute communications window, beginning around 3:40 p.m. The Lander is the partner craft to the Mars Climate Observer, which was famously lost near Mars after scientists had a mixup between the U.S. and metric measuring systems. This time, a NASA spokesman called the landing "flawless...
...were both going to leave early the next morning, so they decided to sleep on the common room futon (where l was supposed to have slept). This way, they would not wake anyone when they got up." Unfortunately, Juri ended up sleeping in the roommate's bed, and the mixup climaxed--since the girl lived in a double. "This roommate came home very late that night and proceeded to undress very slowly right in front of the open window," Juri recalls with a big smile. "She was completely illuminated by the moon," he notes, the smile getting bigger. "To this...