Word: buffon
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Antiquated Labs. One problem is money: after years of pinching pennies, the government still spends only slightly more than $500 annually per student (v. $839 in the U.S.). The Left Bank lycéée of Buffon, built for 900 students in 1887, now has some 3,000. A lycée in Normandy was recently closed for a week while exterminators tried to root out a plague of lice. Laboratories often contain only meager quantities of the chemicals needed for experiments...