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France would attract both of them in different ways. A technician and cardiologist, Rosengarten researched human heart-rate variability for two years in Paris and, one summer, worked at French technology company Saunier Duval...
...Tour, the 24-year-old climbing specialist tested positive for the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), French anti-doping agency officials told reporters. French police immediately took Riccò into custody, as the now familiar scene of chaos erupted, with photographers and name-calling fans swarming around his Saunier Duval team's yellow bus. The entire Spanish team subsequently pulled out of the competition before Thursday's start of stage...
...small cadre of universities to the present 76 after the events of 1968. The number of graduate degrees awarded rose from 90,000 in 1967 to 145,000 a decade later. Many of the newer campuses are small schools in the provinces whose programs were sharply scythed by Saunier-Seïté. Said Alain Touraine, research director of the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences: "Instead of both selective grandes écoles [the elite specialist schools outside the regular university system that train most of France's future leaders] and open-admission universities, we will have...
...Saunier-Seïté and Premier Raymond Barre, however, view the reorganization as a forward-looking step into the technological '80s. While slashing programs in the humanities and social sciences, the government did approve almost all (90%) of the science programs up for review, in line with a five-year plan that names technological research and development as the nation's top priority. The government also increased the 1981 national budget for universities...
...recent graduates with advanced degrees in the humanities and social sciences. Roughly 25% of humanities majors are jobless after graduation, and many of them eventually have to find work in other fields. These subjects, moreover, are frequently taught from a Marxist perspective in France. During a recent speech, Saunier-Seïté bluntly warned students to beware of the "Marxist domination" and "ideological imperialism" rampant in faculty lounges and student cafeterias. But that just made many academics all the more wary of Saunier-Seïté and her efforts to reorganize them. Says Sorbonne Classics Professor Andr...