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...club, Olympique Marseille. Tapie's first stint there from 1986-1994 ended in a five-month prison term on multiple corruption convictions, but not before he'd trans-formed OM into a powerhouse, winning four national titles and France's only pro European crown. His popularity allowed him to launch a political career that peaked with election to Parliament in 1989 and a 1992 appointment as Urban Affairs Minister. But legal authorities investigating Tapie's businesses uncovered evidence of fraud, embezzle-ment and tax evasion - including financial irregularities at OM. Shortly before prison doors slammed behind...
...Enter 3G, which is set to launch in most of Europe by 2003. Running on a new network standard called the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, or UMTS, 3G devices will have more bandwidth, which will enable faster data transmission. Not only does UMTS help solve the capacity problem for voice, it will allow "always on" Internet access and, eventually, even video and color graphics through your handset. So for consumers, 3G could be seriously cool...
Today, NASA officials are overwhelmed by the urgency of building the International Space Station, given the most recent plans for a budget cut from the Bush Administration. Furthermore, the cuts have forced the abandonment of the Space Launch Initiative, which would have redesigned the space shuttle, the vehicle currently used for space travel. These cuts severely undermine NASA’s ability to fund the gradual exploration of space, including eventually returning to the Moon and one day landing on Mars...
...question is this: If the bill becomes law, will it truly disinfect our politics? The end of Clinton's presidency and the launch of Bush's were a parable for reformers, between the pardons for Democratic fat cats and the environmental policy clout of Big Business. But like a virus, political money has a way of mutating so it spreads in any environment. Be careful what you wish for. The cure may be worse than the disease. "This is a stunningly stupid thing to do, my colleagues," Kentucky's Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor, "and don't think...
Last October, BP, Alcan, DuPont and others joined with Environmental Defense to launch the Partnership for Climate Action, pledging to reduce their greenhouse emissions to levels meeting or exceeding Kyoto's requirements. Ford, Daimler-Benz and Texaco have not yet joined, but last year they did quit the misleadingly named Global Climate Coalition, an industry group opposed to emissions controls. Honda and Toyota have introduced hybrid cars with emissions 40% lower than standard models of the same size...