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There's Nothing Like Good Neighbours
And if the case of the recent discovery of the body of a 70-year-old man in his apartment in the town of Aix-les-Bains in southeastern France is anything to go by, he had anything but "good neighbours"
While there's nothing too unusual perhaps in the report of an elderly person's death going unnoticed, especially when he or she lives alone, there must be more than a little cause for concern in cases such as this one
That's because investigators believe that the man's body, found mummified in his apartment on the 14th floor of a social housing block of flats last week, had been there for anything up to three years...
It's a question that has preoccupied many here in France over the past month, and sadly made the headlines far too often It's also one to which it's difficult to provide an answer
Over the past four weeks there have been three separate incidents of young children or babies - being left alone in locked cars...
The Solar Decathlon - Giving Solar Power a Makeover
In the Autumn of next year, the third 'Solar Decathlon' will take place in Washington, DC
When it is under way, the experts and spectators alike will see some of the best examples in the world of the relationship between design and solar power...
Climate change and global warming - indeed, how to control them - are becoming more central to politics with every new development Sustainable energy is the method of our times, and government's across the globe are under pressure - from each other, from environmental groups, and from individuals - to implement genuine and successful 'green' policy
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Edgar Mitchell’s Roswell Revelations and Pentagon Briefing
When former Astronaut Edgar Mitchell recently told the world that he had been briefed on Aliens and UFOs by the US Government, the media reacted by treating his comments with disdain...
French Power EDF Ready to Take Over British Energy
After the nuclear power company British Energy announced that it was thinking about takeover approaches earlier this year, and then subsequently held talks and meetings with EDF of France, EON and RWE of Germany, and Iberdrola of Spain It is the French energy power house that has emerged as the only formal bidder for the takeover and is now only days away from clinching the £12 billion deal...
On May 14, 2008, an oval object with a turquoise glow fell out of the sky around three o’clock in the morning and crashed west of the Colorado River near Needles, California The crash was almost immediately followed by the appearance of unmarked vehicles with government license plates manned by non-uniformed personnel, a small fleet of transport aircrafts and helicopters including a sky crane which later removed the object Like many incidents of this kind, this one quickly became a non-event...
Universal Solar Power - 'Solar Tres' and Commercial Solar Thermal Energy
After the success of Solar One - the world's first large-scale thermal solar power plant - and its update, Solar Two, Europe has now entered into the race for sustained solar power
Solar Tres, located West of Ejica in the Andalusia district of Spain, has been modeled on the Solar One and Two projects, which were developed and updated in the Marstow Desert, California, in 1981 and 1995 Like its American predecessor, Solar Tres will produce energy through heliostats: large mirror assemblies that track and reflect the sun's rays throughout the day...
Apollo Astronaut Mitchell Says Aliens Exist and the Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About Them
Edgar Mitchell was one of the twelve Americans to walk on the surface of the moon During a recent radio interview on the UK-based Kerrang Broadcast, he told host Nick Margerrison, “I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real...
UFOs being chased by military jets has become a common theme in the USA other the past year In all of these cases the jets almost immediately dropped flairs to cover up what was, obviously, a far more interesting mission If any comments were forthcoming from the military, they merely stated that any military aircraft seen in the area were on training missions...
Alleviating Poverty Through Incentive Based Aid Programs
Poverty is an issue affecting countries in approximately two thirds of the world we live in, and with increased globalization it is a problem that has ramifications never felt before in the Western world The question of how to alleviate poverty and suffering in our world is one that has plagued the minds of people for years; the simple answer provided by many is simply to increase money, however does this increase really help alleviate poverty or does it have the potential to make the problem even worse
An article which appeared August 21, 2007 in the International Herald Tribune entitled Managing Globalization: To reduce poverty, money isn’t everything by Daniel Altman addresses this issue by examining two South American countries Brazil and Venezuela...
Hardly the sexiest headline by any stretch of the imagination But there again when it comes to institutional reform and changes to the constitution, the subject matter is hardly guaranteed to instill much enthusiasm
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy is fighting constitutional reform on two fronts...
The Flushing Meadows Park Zoo Animal Mutilations and UFO Mystery
Flushing Meadows Park has a long and unusual history It is located ten miles east of Manhattan on Long Island in the Borough of Queens, New York City, between the towns of Flushing and Corona The park started out as swampy land situated along Flushing Creek...
The recession is really taking its toll in the US and over here in the UK, every day more and more people are getting further and further in debt The US and the UK housing markets are spiraling ever downward with house prices dropping on a daily level The numbers of repossessions are increasing daily with more and more people getting behind with their mortgage payments...
Florida Power and Light Company Given Go Ahead For Solar Power Facilities
On the 15 July, the Florida Public Services Commission granted FPL permission to begin work on three major Solar Power plants across the state
The first of these projects is 'The Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center', scheduled for construction at the company's already existent 'Martin Plant' site It is expected to be operational in 2010, and will produce a maximum 75W output...
Green Olympics - London and the Environment in 2012
With talk of China's high rates of pollution dominating headlines in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, it is important to remember that sport and the environment can go hand in hand
In the last year, the Chinese capital has been the subject of much media scrutiny surrounding its environmental and emissions policy In 2005, the European Space Agency declared that Beijing contained unnecessarily high levels of nitrogen dioxide, a bi-product of many industrial processes, including thermal power plants...
There was an end of a television era here yesterday as Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, affectionately known in this country as PPDA, made his final broadcast as anchorman on TF1's prime time news slot
Think of a news anchor in your own country, someone who has been around for donkeys years and at a certain time of the day when the small screen is flickering becomes almost part of the sitting room furniture
PPDA has been something of a national institution in France for the past three decades and has quite simply been the face and voice of news, first on public television in 1976 and then from the mid 80s on the nation's main private channel, TF1...
This is a political piece that by its very definition can only be filed under "Strange" on any website
It concerns last year's defeated candidate in the French presidential elections, Ségolène Royal, and her claims that she is paying the price for comments she made recently about the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy
On June 27 there was a break-in at Royal's ground floor apartment in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt - the third time in less than two years...
Since the dramatic rescue last week of 15 hostages held by Colombia's leftist rebel movement the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, much of this country's attention - if not the world's - has been focused on Ingrid Betancourt
Finally though one of France's leading national daily newspapers, Le Figaro, has caught up with reports that have appeared elsewhere around the globe
In today's issue it carries the story of the man without whom we would probably not have been able to share in Betancourt's joy as she stepped out of the 'plane on to the tarmac and into the lenses of countless cameras last week...
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