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...Frenchmen Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan perfect the Aqua-Lung, a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, or scuba...
...Pierre Bunel, a senior French officer arrested for passing NATO secrets to the Serbs, are "in no way linked to our policies." That's a relief, since Bunel is suspected of informing the Serbs of NATO's planned targets in Kosovo -- which would have put NATO pilots (including Frenchmen) at risk...
...would whip the country's right-wing nationalist politicians into a patriotic frenzy -- instead, it leaves Jean-Marie Le Pen and his ilk in an awkward position. Their problem: France's soccer heroes are mostly of African descent, and the anti-immigrant Le Pen doesn't consider them "real" Frenchmen. "In the past, Le Pen has complained about the predominance of black and Arab players and said it couldn't really be considered a French team," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. "But they're smart enough to know that it would be disastrous to take a stand against...
...loss of St. Louis and Perrin ends an era of Vermont domination. The speedy Frenchmen were unarguably the most feared two some on the ice. Gilligan is just hoping that players such as Stephan Piche (33 points) and Martin Wilde can step up and lead a promising crew of freshmen...
Many progressive Frenchmen would dearly like to see more business leaders like Arnault. Born in Roubaix, in northern France, he graduated from Paris' elite Ecole Polytechnique with a degree in engineering. Perhaps because of their rigid educational system, the French tend to produce civil servants and middle managers, but entrepreneurial brains who would enliven the business climate are few. The success of Arnault, who spent three years working on real estate deals in Florida during the Socialist reign of Francois Mitterrand, has stirred up resentment and distrust among his peers...