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...walk has helped preserve the cave," says Marie-Odile Plassard, a Rouffignac guide. "And we've never modified the air circulation like they did in Lascaux." Yanik Le Guillou, curator of cave paintings in the Midi-Pyrenees region which includes the caves of Niaux, Gargas and Pech Merle, acknowledges that Lascaux has been a "detonator of concerns for other caves," but that those concerns would have eventually arisen without it. "Even if we've made errors," he says, "it's almost exclusively here in France that scientific research on cave conservation has been done, and our policies are rigorous...
...divided 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled thatfederal affirmative action programsmust adhere to the same strict standards as the states when offering help to minorities. The decision reverses a 1980 ruling that had allowed Congress greater leeway than the states in creating such programs. The case involved Randy Pech, a white Colorado contractor, who charged that a federal program offering government contractors financial incentives to use minority-owned firms as subcontractors unfairly discriminated against his business. Writing for the majority, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the government must show that racial preference programs "serve a compelling government interest...
...minorities. Under a minority-preference program of the Department of Transportation, white-owned Adarand Constructors of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was bypassed for a federal job building highway guard rails, despite having submitted a lower bid than the winner--Gonzales Construction. Adarand sued. ``What is prejudice?'' asks Adarand manager Randy Pech. ``It's when government makes a decision based on something that doesn't matter, like race or gender.'' In the tangle of its earlier rulings on affirmative action, the Supreme Court has required states and localities to design race-based preferences narrowly, as compensation for well-documented prior discrimination...
...their victims: " 1. You must answer in conformity with the questions I ask you. 2. During beatings or electrocution you must not cry loudly. 3. If you disobey any of my regulations, you will get either ten strokes of the whip or five electric shocks." Said Curator Ing Pech, 52, an electrical engineer who is one of only four known survivors of the death camp: "Everyone here was accused of working for either the CIA or the Soviet KGB. After I received 50 blows to the head, I confessed. But after eight months, I was freed to work...
...pictures of the D. K. E. theatricals are now ready at Pech's Studies. A few thousand pencils are still left...
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