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...majority of ump deputies who refused to back Villepin's plan last week to facilitate the merger of Franco-Belgian utility Suez with Gaz de France (GDF) by slashing the French state's 80% share in GDF. "Even the ump deputies are now acting like the opposition," says political scientist Dominique Reynié of Sciences Po. Adding to the turbulence, last week Villepin sued three authors for libel over claims linked to the murky Clearstream affair, then let his frustration boil over in the face of charges that he was too eager to protect embattled EADS...
...Funky Forest - The First Contact is an example of that bizarre, and to me impenetrable, oxymoron: Japanese comedy. Watching this two-and-a-half-hour selection of sketches from a kids? TV show, I felt like a scientist monitoring extraterrestrial signals. What do they mean to the people they?re made for? And is anyone, anywhere, laughing? I think I understand the premise of the sketch about the high-school girl at a tennis lesson who gets a bloodsucker stuck to her arm. It gradually emerges, and we see it?s a small homunculus named Yamada (as in "Ya mada...
...Scientist in Britain quoted the Family Research Council's Bridget Maher warning that "giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, because they may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex." Others warned of promoting false confidence, since the vaccine does not protect against all strains of HPV or the many other sexually transmitted diseases. Reginald Finger, a former medical advisor to Focus on the Family who sits on the CDC advisory committee, told The Hill that "if people begin to market the vaccine or tout the vaccine that this makes adolescent sex safer...
...plan, which is expected to receive its final legislative approval this week, represents a political victory for Chief Executive Donald Tsang. "He wants to leave a mark in history," says Ma Ngok, a political scientist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "Of course, Donald hasn't achieved a lot of concrete things, so this may be one thing he can secure within his term of office...
...Director George Tenet was briefing Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in the White House Situation Room on the agency's latest concern: intelligence reports suggesting that Osama bin Laden and his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had met with a radical Pakistani nuclear scientist around a campfire in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Absorbing the possibility that al-Qaeda was trying to acquire a nuclear weapon, Cheney remarked that America had to deal with a new type of threat - what he called a "low-probability, high-impact event...