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Why I love the Geneva Writers Conference
Published on 2012-02-14 06:08:41
The Geneva Writers Conference, organized by many passionate writers under the gentle but firm guidance of Susan Tiberghien*, needs no advertizing. It's fully booked and always will be. But I would like to pause a moment to consider just why it is so good.
1320 deaths attributed to Mediator drug in French medical scandal that threatens to hit Sarkozy's UMP
Published on 2012-02-09 07:42:11
When the Mediator scandal broke last year, Jacques Servier, founder and CEO of Laboratoires Servier, dismissed rumors with a wave of his hand: "Mediator, it's only three deaths" Servier told his employees.The intrepid researcher who broke the story placed the number at 500. Now, according to Le Monde, two researchers at Inserm are estimating the number of dead at 1320.
The true cost of top French prepas : higher education in France
Published on 2012-02-07 05:05:10
American universities cost an arm and a leg. French prepas are free. So it's a no brainer, isn't it? Not according to Le Monde. France's newspaper of record for teachers, the most conservative of all French publication when it comes to changing education, has gone public with a shocking article on how elite prepas treat top French students. In "Prépas, Excellence au Prix Fort" Marie Desplenchin, winner of the prestigious Prix Médicis for her essayl La Vie Sauve, denounces the brutal exper
