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...were first elected in June, 1999, the three M.E.P.s have been making waves in the still pond of the Brussels bureaucracy, striking at some of the E.U's cushiest perks and least effective talking shops. Dutch Socialist Van Hulten successfully fought for Friday meetings of the European Parliament in Strasbourg to be scrapped because no one bothered to turn up for votes, a move that has saved taxpayers millions of euros; Clegg has campaigned for the Parliament's over-generous system of pay and allowances to be scaled back; and Van der Laan has called for feckless institutions like...
...SENSORY SUBSTITUTION Seeing in Tongues Blind people may one day be able to read computer screens and recognize faces - with their tongues - thanks to a device developed at the University of Strasbourg. The Tactile Vision Substitution System (TVSS), a 3-sq cm pad that rests on the tongue, translates images from a digital camera into electrical stimulation, which forms patterns on the tongue corresponding to the shape of the image. The team wants to implant the tvss in a dental retainer that sends signals to a digital camera mounted on a pair of glasses...
...Though neither side seems poised to land a killer blow, the latest polls bear troubling news for the conservatives. Longtime rightist bastions like Lyons and Toulouse could fall to the Socialists and their allies, and the left seems likely to retain fiefdoms like Strasbourg, Rennes and Lille. Though conservatives still retain a solid grip on Marseilles and Bordeaux, Delanoë's Socialist-led ticket looks set to wrest Paris away from the Gaullists for the first time in 24 years...
...Motivé-e-s' mobilization has produced results in 10 other French cities-including Rennes, Strasbourg and Bordeaux-where citizens' groups inspired by Motivé-e-s are forming alternatives to traditional politics. Toulouse is the underdogs' biggest opportunity to make a splash. Some Toulousians resent outgoing Mayor Dominique Baudis' decision to "parachute" a high-profile outsider-former Culture Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy-as his chosen successor. Though the conservative list currently leads in opinion polls, some locals anticipate a link-up between the traditional leftist parties and Motivé-e-s allowing the new movement to participate...
POLIO Last spring a strain of wild polio virus was unexpectedly discovered in the sewage system of Strasbourg, France. It's likely that the virus, considered extinct in that country, had escaped from one of Strasbourg's many biomedical laboratories. Still, the appearance of wild polio in a certified polio-free region undermined World Health Organization plans to eliminate universal vaccination once it declares polio eradicated, which it had hoped to do by 2005. Widespread on five continents, including the Americas, Europe and Asia, through the late 1980s, polio has been contained mostly to parts of sub-Saharan Africa...