CALENDAR.
8-12 September 1999, Bordeaux, France ESB 99: 15th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON BIOMATERIALS Contact: BIOMAT/ESB 99, 146 rue Leo Saignat, boite 84, 33076 Bordeaux cedex, France; tel/fax: +33-557-571-494; e-mail: biomat@biophys.u- bordeaux2.fr 16 September 1999, London, UK 11TH ANNUAL BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING...

Virtually Cro-Magnon.
Lascaux cave is closed to visitors, but a replica, Lascaux II, captures a glimpse of early man's soul GUIDES WHO LEAD TOURS OF caves painted by our prehistoric ancestors like to suggest that visitors are in the presence of masterpieces. Often it isn't true. As with other...

Robert Mondavi Reports Record Second Quarter Shipments and Earnings.
OAKVILLE, Calif., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Robert Mondavi Corporation (Nasdaq: MOND) today announced results for its second quarter ended December 31, 2001. Adjusted net income for the quarter grew 16 percent to $15.2 million, or $0.93 per diluted share, compared to $13.1 million, or...

NORTH AMERICAN PROFESSORS ABROAD, 1999-2000.
John Arthur University of East Anglia State University of New September-December 1999 York at Binghampton David Carr Wuppertal University, Germany Emory University Summer 2000 William Demopoulos University of Canterbury, University of Western Chistchurch, New Zealand Ontario September-October 1999 Daniel Dumouchel Technische Universitat, Berlin Universite de Montreal Fall 1999-Summer 2000...

Different conclusions.
PARIS--In a rare example of public debate between two members of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Cardinal Pierre Eyt of Bordeaux, France questioned in a French Catholic newspaper article the Catholic Church's ability to adapt itself as an institution to the issues of the...

Have Danes solved the French paradox.
Danish scientists have published a study that they argue goes a long way toward explaining why the French, despite generally high concentrations of cholesterol in their blood, don't experience the high rates of heart disease seen in other groups with simi larly elevated cholesterol. Hans Ole Hein of State...

Writing away.
For many critics, J. M. G. Le Clezio's principal virtue as a writer is his ability to construct a novelistic landscape that is dramatically different from the real world of his readers, a deeply evocative, seductive "elsewhere" to which we travel on the virtual journey of his fiction.(1) Such a...

Laser interplay stokes fusion uncertainty.
Fusion researchers are skewering laser beams with laser beams to see how the interactions might affect laboratory efforts to spark nuclear fusion. Two research groups this week report that criss-crossing lasers can squander or misplace energy that fusion labs will need to set off wee thermonuclear blasts. ...

Due to ignorance and convenience.
"Par ignorance et commodite" La Presse, October 25, 1997; translated by John Richards. In France, at the moment, they're trying a man for a crime against humanity. What's different this time is they're trying neither a monster, nor a murderer, nor an SS agent. For...

The working of pigment during the Aurignacian period: evidence from Ucagizli cave (Turkey).
New finds from the Upper Palaeolithic of Anatolia, and the mineralogical analysis of their colours, extends evidence of a precocious interest in pigments from the western European heartland of Palaeolithic painting into the Near East. Introduction The discovery of a new Palaeolithic site in Turkey was made possible...