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...There's been a tradition of intervention at Lascaux from the very beginning," says François Bourges, an independent hydrogeologist and expert on France's caves. South by 230 km, the Tuc D'Audoubert and Grotte des Trois Frères, caves of a similar vintage and impact as Lascaux, have never been open to the public. Count Robert Bégouën, whose father and uncles found the caves on the family's Pyrenean estate in the years just before World War I, continues a family tradition that decrees no one enters either cave without...
...problems, but that's partly because Lascaux has shown the importance of limiting visitation and keeping a close eye on the cave's condition." The same precautions are maintained at font de gaume, a cave located just down the Vézère valley from Lascaux. Privately-owned Tuc d'Audoubert and Trois Freres have never admitted tourists. Rouffignac, another privately-owned cave 25 km west of Lascaux, has a natural advantage: its massive size. The cave's owners installed an electric train through some of its 8 km of tunnels in 1959. The carriages transport 30 people...
...fans outside of Hamilton, N.Y. If Dartmouth is to earn an invite, the Raiders must win the ECAC tournament, which will in turn raise Brown’s ratings percentage index (RPI) high enough for the Bears to be elevated to “team under consideration” (TUC) standing. Because Dartmouth has two wins against Brown, that status-bump will boost the Big Green’s record against TUCs high enough to give the Hanover faithful a glimmer of hope should enough breaks go their...
...offshoring remains a red-hot election-year issue. Yet in Britain , where the jobless rate stands at a 20-year low, offshoring is making new friends. "No country can be a fortress economy in today's global market," said Trades Union Congress general secretary Brendan Barber. This week the TUC will submit a report to the U.K. government on the benefits of international competition. That kind of talk could move Barber's job offshore. - By Adam Smith Running On Empty Philip Watts caved in to shareholder pressure and stepped down from his post as chairman of oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell...
There are four comparison criteria: RPI, record against TUC teams, record against common opponenets (COP) and head-to-head. For each head-to-head win a team earns one point and ties are broken by the team with the higher...