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...Lauvergeon, though, has kept her top spot, with recently appointed supervisor Jean-Cyril Spinetta, chairman of Air France-KLM, backing most of her positions - even if plans for a public offering of shares in Areva, something for which Lauvergeon has long lobbied, have now been dropped. "About the only thing she hasn't gotten her way on is hearing [President] Nicolas Sarkozy say 'O.K., let's float this company,' " Elias says. "Apart from that, though, we're seeing further confirmation that she's one of the best managers in the industrial world...
...about the dismal state of relations between the two countries. For a while, speculation centered on former Vice President Al Gore, who in 2004 co-founded Current TV, the network the two journalists work for. But Gore's direct stake in the case put him in a complicated spot. Plus, there was another, arguably better option for a special envoy: the Secretary of State's husband, who just happens to be a former President...
...Jupiter Cosmic Crash While peering through his backyard telescope, Anthony Wesley, a 44-year-old amateur astronomer, spied a massive black spot on Jupiter's surface. The Australian quickly e-mailed NASA, and scientists manning an infrared telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, confirmed his hunch: a fast-moving object--possibly a comet--had apparently smashed into the solar system's largest planet, leaving a nearly Earth-size "scar" in its atmosphere. The collision came almost exactly 15 years after a comet last hit Jupiter...
...middle of the Pacific Ocean, bobbing in a floating collection of trash known as the Plastic Vortex. It's an accumulation of plastic debris swept into the Pacific - whether directly from beaches or flowing out of rivers - and carried by equatorial currents into a swirling pattern to one spot between Hawaii and the mainland...
Shuster, David • denial by of having a meltdown after accidental on-camera exposure of the bald spot...