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• The Summer Games of 1992 - sport.

  In the most ambitious undertaking of all, a stretch of rundown warehouses and abandoned factories beside the long-neglected Mediterranean waterfront wastransformed into a sparkling new district of apartments, shopping areas, and palmetto-lined promenades. During the games, the area served as the Olympic athletes'village, where, for the first time at any games, organizers offered accommodations to competitors and their coaches free of charge. After the games the apartmentswere to be sold to help...

• Bangladesh - country.

  F Environmental Issues Waterborne diseases such as cholera are a serious threat to public health in Bangladesh. Until the 1970s, many of Bangladesh’s people became sick from drinkingpolluted water drawn from surface rivers. Aid agencies such as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) built shallow wells throughout the country to help provide asafe source of drinking water to Bangladesh’s poor. In the 1990s, however, it was discovered that many of these wells were contaminated by arsenic, a...

• Culture.

  form of knowledge, such as scientific discoveries; objects, such as works of art; and traditions, such as the observance of holidays. C1 Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism Self-identity usually depends on culture to such a great extent that immersion in a very different culture—with which a person does not share common ways of life orbeliefs—can cause a feeling of confusion and disorientation. Anthropologists refer to this phenomenon as culture shock. In multicultural societies —societies s...

• individu (philosophie) - philosophie.

  3. 3 Individualisme Selon qu’elles accordent la priorité à la société ou à l’individu, deux tendances distinctes se développèrent dans les domaines de la philosophie et de la politique : d’un côté surgit une tentative de maîtrise de la société, de l’État et du pouvoir, représentée par le communisme, de Platon à Marx, ainsi que par le socialisme, le républicanisme, le personnalisme communautaire d’Emmanuel Mounier et l’étatisme de Hobbes ; de l’autre apparut une critique de l’État et de l’influe...

• Supernova - astronomy.

  The term hypernova has been proposed for an extremely massive core-collapse supernova—possibly more than 100 times the mass of the Sun. A hypernova is thought to form a black hole. Just before it explodes, a hypernova may release a huge burst of gamma rays in a jet from the rotating black hole at its center. These jets mayexplain the so-called long gamma-ray bursts detected by astronomers. According to some researchers, massive stars with over 40 solar masses may sometimescollapse directly int...

• Locutions avec bateau, nom masculin.

  emmener, mener quelqu’un en bateau, monter un bateau à quelqu’un Tromper quelqu’un, mystifier quelqu’un. être encore (tout) étourdi du bateau [Vieux] Être encore sous le coup d’une forte émotion. manquer le bateau [Québec] [Familier] Perdre une bonne occasion. mettre un bateau en panne Arrêter un bateau en orientant les vergues ou en réduisant la voilure. ▼Figure.▼Figure. décolleté bateau ou encolure bateau Encolure en forme de bateau, formant un décolleté droit allant d’une é...

• usage: FER, substantif masculin.

  · Fer étiré, laminé; (fil de) fer galvanisé. Les rampes de ces petits escaliers [à Koenigsberg] (...) sont en fer coulé de Berlin, je crois (HENRI BEYLE, DITSTENDHAL, Romens et nouvelles, tome 1, 1842, page 22 ). On les exécute [les cales] en bois dur; il vaudrait beaucoup mieux employer du fer fondu (M. NOSBAN,Nouveau manuel complet du menuisier, de l'ébéniste, du layetier, du marqueteur, du sculpteur. 1857, page 117 ). Fer forgé; porte, balcon en/de fer forgé. De grandsvalets blonds avaient ou...

• Bacteria - biology.

  A2 b Bacterial Killers Some dramatic infectious diseases result from exposure to bacteria that are not part of our normal bacterial community. Cholera, one of the world’s deadliest diseasestoday, is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae . Cholera is spread in water and food contaminated with the bacteria, and by people who have the disease. After entering the body, the cholera bacteria grow in the intestines, often along the surface of the intestinal wall, where they secrete a toxin (poiso...

• Automobile Racing.

  beginning in 1906 at Le Mans it came to refer to the principal F1 auto race in a given nation, except in the United States, where the term continues to be used lessdiscriminately. After the end of World War I in 1918, when automobile racing blossomed internationally, a series of GP races in several nations became reserved for F1competition, and an annual GP calendar was developed consisting of national races, such as the French Grand Prix and the British Grand Prix. An annual award calledthe Wor...

• Le raisonnement est-il une forme de l'association des idées ?

• L'absolutisme est-il la meilleure forme de gouvernement ?

• Définition du terme: CROÛTE, substantif féminin.

  de massepain (AURORE DUPIN, BARONNE DUDEVANT, DITE GEORGE SAND, Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré, tome 1, 1858, page 70 ). Confer crème exemple 3 et dessert exemple 2. 4. Par extension. Partie non comestible d'un aliment. Des coques vides et des croûtes de fromage (ALBERT T'SERSTEVENS, L'Itinéraire espagnol, 1963, page 235 ). Remarque : On rencontre le terme employé comme négation (confer mie) par fantaisie d'auteur. Qui croit voir, il ne voit croûte (AUDIBERTI, Ampélour, 1937, page 107). B.— Pa...

• LES OBJETS ET LES FORMES DE L'ATTENTION

  L'intervention prolongée de l'attention dans les activités d'instinct ou d'habitude tend à en abolir la sûreté et à endésorganiser les mécanismes. Une ancienne mélodie se reconstituait spontanément en ma mémoire : que monattention s'y applique, et la mélodie s'interrompt. Le pianiste trop attentif à ses doigts, l'écrivain à son orthographe,l'orateur au choix de ses mots, l'élève à sa récitation voient leurs automatismes désorganisés par l'attention.L'attention était à sa place au...

• air, n.

  météorologie - Nuages et précipitations oxygène ozone Les livres aérodynamique - résistance de l'air et portance, page 47, volume 1 2. MUSIQUE : terme générique appliqué indifféremment à toute pièce de musique vocale ou instrumentale nantie d'une ligne mélodique saillante. Si l'air apparaît, en France, vers 1560, comme une conséquence directe des relations entretenues entre le texte et la musique, l'heureuse union des deux éléments semble parachevée dans l'« air de cour », particulièreme...

• Psychotherapy.

  Other managed-care companies pay therapists a set fee to meet with a client for up to a specified maximum number of sessions depending on the nature of theproblem, free of interference from case reviewers. For example, a managed-care firm may pay a therapist $200 to hold up to eight sessions with a person. If the clientuses all eight sessions, the therapist normally loses money. But if treatment stops after two or three sessions, the therapist makes a profit. This relatively new system iscontrov...

• Sciences LES PROTÉINES

  Les protéines d'atomes. On y trouve des atomes de carbone, d'oxygène et d'hydrogène et d'azote, un autre atome fondamental dans la structure des acides aminés, donc des protéines. La formule générale d'un acide aminé est R-CH-(NH 2)-COOH, où Rest un radical variable -c'est lui qui donne «l'identité>> de l'acide aminé, en quelque sorte. Les autres groupes d'atomes sont identiques chez tous les acides aminés. Le plus simple d'entre eux, la glycine, a p...

• Diabetes Mellitus.

  Once diabetes is diagnosed, treatment consists of controlling the amount of glucose in the blood and preventing complications. Depending on the type of diabetes, thiscan be accomplished through regular physical exercise, a carefully controlled diet, and medication. Individuals with Type 1 diabetes must receive insulin, often two to four times a day, to provide the body with the hormone it does not produce. Insulin cannot be takenorally, because it is destroyed in the digestive system. Consequent...

• ATMOSPHÈRE GÉNÉRALITÉS DESCRIPTION L'atmosphère est la couche gazeuse qui entoure notre planète et qui s'étend de sa surface jusqu'à une hauteur difficile à établir, mais que, par convention, on place à environ 1 000 km d'altitude.

  2 La vapeur d’eau se concentre près de la surface terrestre, où elle peut atteindre 4 % du volume de toute l'atmosphère, mais elle est pratiquement absente au- dessus de 10 km. L’eau sous forme de vapeur n’est pas un constituant passif, mais elle interagit avec le rayonnement solaire et avec l’énergie réémise par la Terre chauffée par le Soleil. La quantité de vapeur d’eau qui peut rester dans l'atmosphère dépend de la température. En général, l’air chaud contient plus de vapeur d’eau que l’air...

• ASSEMBLAGE, substantif masculin.

  PARADIGMES. Accolement, agglom?ration, amas, assemblement, assortiment, choix, collection, ensemble, jeu, juxtaposition, ramas, ramassis, recueil, r?gime, s?rie. C.? Emplois sp?ciaux. 1. TECHNOLOGIE. a) IMPRIMERIE (RELIURE). " Mise en ordre des feuilles imprim?es pour en former des volumes. On se guide pour cela sur les signatures plac?es au bas des feuilles " (Albert Maire, Manuel pratique du biblioth?caire, 1896, page 287)?: ? 5. Ils travaillaient, en effet, plusieurs, ? l'assemblage d'...

• Capital Punishment.

  deterrent effect. Capital punishment advocates note that because the death penalty is reserved for the most aggravated murders, the deterrent effect of capitalpunishment on such crimes may not be apparent in data on homicide rates in general. Supporters also urge that the conflicting results of various studies indicate thatthe deterrent effect of the death penalty cannot not be proven or disproven with any certainty. They maintain that in the absence of conclusive proof that the threat ofexecuti...

• Uzbekistan - country.

  E Environmental Issues The evaporation of the Aral Sea is one of the worst ecological disasters in the world. The Aral has shrunk so much that it now holds only about one-fifth the volume ofwater it held in 1960. The shrinkage is due to irrigation withdrawals from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, a practice that began on a massive scale in the early 1960s aspart of the Soviet Union’s ill-conceived drive to increase cotton yields in Central Asia. Growing cotton in the naturally arid and saline soil...

• Eye. I INTRODUCTION Eye, light-sensitive organ of vision in animals. The eyes of

  Several structures, not parts of the eyeball, contribute to the protection of the eye. The most important of these are the eyelids, two folds of skin and tissue, upper andlower, that can be closed by means of muscles to form a protective covering over the eyeball against excessive light and mechanical injury. The eyelashes, a fringe ofshort hairs growing on the edge of either eyelid, act as a screen to keep dust particles and insects out of the eyes when the eyelids are partly closed. Inside the...

• Native American Architecture I INTRODUCTION Native American Architecture, traditional architecture of the peoples of who lived in North America before Europeans arrived.

  Mound Builders who resided in the area.John Elk III/Bruce Coleman, Inc. Another mound building culture, named Hopewell, also appears to have originated in Ohio but expanded west to Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma, south to Louisiana,Mississippi, and Alabama, east to Georgia and the Appalachian Mountains, and north to Wisconsin, Michigan, and lower Ontario in Canada. The Hopewell culture lastedfrom about 200 BC to 400 AD. Hopewell people built large, linear mounds to create enclosures in geometrical...

• Argentina - country.

  Patagonia lies in the rain shadow of the Andes and so receives little moisture. As a result it is used primarily for grazing sheep, although some crops are grown on smallfarms in irrigated valleys. Several major oil fields also are in Patagonia. At the southern tip of Patagonia is Tierra del Fuego, a large mountainous island shared byArgentina and Chile. B Rivers and Lakes Most of Argentina’s rivers empty into the Atlantic Ocean. Three rivers—the Paraná, Paraguay, and Uruguay—flow generally sou...

• Amphibian (animal) - biology.

  strong enough to kill potential predators. C Hearing, Vision, and Vocalizations Amphibians rely on their senses to find food and evade predators. Amphibians lack external ears but have well-developed internal ears. Hearing is most acute in frogs,which typically have a middle ear cavity for transferring sound vibrations from the eardrum, or tympanum, to the inner ear. Frogs and toads also use their keen hearingin communicating with one another. Using a true voice box, or larynx, and a large, exp...

• Cognitive Psychology.

  full richness of people’s cognitive experiences. Describing the act of remembering as a process of storage and retrieval, for example, neglects the subjective experienceof remembering. Another criticism is that information-processing theory may not reflect how the brain actually works. Newer models, such as the parallel distributedprocessing model, try to address this criticism by drawing on studies of brain structure and function. Psychologists continue to debate the adequacy of the information...

• USA - Iraq War - History.

  B Making the Case for War B1 “Neoconservatives” and the Bush Doctrine Long before President George W. Bush took office in 2001, elements in or close to the Republican Party had called repeatedly for firmer U.S. steps against Iraq,including a war if necessary to force a regime change. One such group authored a white paper in 1996 called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm , which was later sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel’s Likud Party. It advocated...

• U.S.-Iraq War - U.S. History. I INTRODUCTION U.S.-Iraq War, military action begun in

  B Making the Case for War B1 “Neoconservatives” and the Bush Doctrine Long before President George W. Bush took office in 2001, elements in or close to the Republican Party had called repeatedly for firmer U.S. steps against Iraq,including a war if necessary to force a regime change. One such group authored a white paper in 1996 called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm , which was later sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel’s Likud Party. It advocated...

• France - country.

  In both the Paris and Aquitaine basins, fertile soils derived from limestone and wind-deposited dust, called loess, have supported prosperous agriculture since ancienttimes. Other lowlands in France are scattered and relatively small. They include the Alsace Plain in the east, bordering Germany, the valley of the Rhône River in thesoutheast, and the Languedoc Plain along the Mediterranean coast. A2 Uplands France contains several regions of uplands, the worn down remains of ancient mountain sys...

• La structure de notre Univers

  Amas stellaire : groupement d'étoiles formant des nuages très lumineux. Ils sont de deux sortes. Les amas globulaires, très denses, lointains et de forme sphérique, sont composés d'étoiles liées par la force de gravitation. Dans les amas ouverts, moins denses, les étoiles sont nées simultanément d'une même nébuleuse. STADES DE (ÉVOLUTION DES tTOILES Géante rouge : stade d'une étoile - d'une masse de une à 10 fois celle du Soleil -en fin de vie (ce...

• Florida - USA History.

  accidentally introduced into the region in the 1880s, and it spread with alarming rapidity throughout the upper reaches of the river. The plant is very difficult toeradicate, and it has also clogged the channels of other Florida rivers. To increase drainage of the Everglades, which drain naturally to Florida Bay and the Gulf ofMexico, a number of drainage channels and canals have been built across southern Florida. Among the rivers flowing from the peninsula to the Gulf of Mexico are the Suwanne...

• Georgia (country) - country.

  1917. During the subsequent Soviet period, religious practice was strongly discouraged because the Soviet state was officially atheistic; however, the GeorgianOrthodox Church was allowed to function openly. Orthodox Christianity is the religion of about 58 percent of the Georgian population. Muslims represent about 19 percent of the country’s population, with ethnicAzerbaijanis, Kurds, and Ajars comprising the principal Muslim groups. Ajars are ethnic Georgians who converted to Islam in the 17th...

• California - geography.

  The Basin and Range province is an arid area of mountain ranges, basins, and deserts. In California it is represented primarily by parts of the Great Basin and SonoranDesert sections. Within the Great Basin lies Death Valley, whose lowest elevation, 86 m (282 ft) below sea level, is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere. TheSonoran Desert section is characterized by numerous flat plains separated by low but rugged ranges. It includes the extensive Mojave, or Mohave, Desert. Also in thisprov...

• California - USA History.

  The Basin and Range province is an arid area of mountain ranges, basins, and deserts. In California it is represented primarily by parts of the Great Basin and SonoranDesert sections. Within the Great Basin lies Death Valley, whose lowest elevation, 86 m (282 ft) below sea level, is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere. TheSonoran Desert section is characterized by numerous flat plains separated by low but rugged ranges. It includes the extensive Mojave, or Mohave, Desert. Also in thisprov...

• Communism.

  In Britain, Robert Owen, a philanthropic Welsh manufacturer, strove against the social problems brought about by the Industrial Revolution and sought to improve thewelfare of workers. As manager of a cotton mill, he enhanced the environment of his workers by improving their housing, modernizing mill equipment for greater safetyand sanitation, and establishing low-priced stores for the workers and schools for their children. Owen believed that workers, rather than governments, should createthe in...

• Communism .

  In Britain, Robert Owen, a philanthropic Welsh manufacturer, strove against the social problems brought about by the Industrial Revolution and sought to improve thewelfare of workers. As manager of a cotton mill, he enhanced the environment of his workers by improving their housing, modernizing mill equipment for greater safetyand sanitation, and establishing low-priced stores for the workers and schools for their children. Owen believed that workers, rather than governments, should createthe in...

• American Literature: Drama I INTRODUCTION American Literature: Drama, literature intended for performance, written by Americans in the English language.

  American plays, while still a minority, began to appear in the theater repertory in the 19th century. Although American plays were still styled after British models, theirsubject matter came to be based on specifically American incidents or themes. In the United States as in Britain, many plays reflected the influence of romanticism , a European literary and artistic movement. Melodrama, with its outpourings of emotion, was the most prevalent dramatic form in the 19th century. Gothic melodramas...

• Missouri - geography.

  Saint Francois Mountains, at the eastern end of the crest of the dome. Only in these mountains have the sedimentary rocks been sufficiently eroded away so that theunderlying igneous rocks are exposed. They form the rounded, knoblike peaks of an old mountain range. The peaks project, in isolation or in clusters, between 230 and300 m (750 and 1,000 ft) above the surrounding sedimentary basins. One of these knobs, Taum Sauk Mountain, reaches 540 m (1,772 ft) above sea level and is thehighest point...

• Missouri - USA History.

  Saint Francois Mountains, at the eastern end of the crest of the dome. Only in these mountains have the sedimentary rocks been sufficiently eroded away so that theunderlying igneous rocks are exposed. They form the rounded, knoblike peaks of an old mountain range. The peaks project, in isolation or in clusters, between 230 and300 m (750 and 1,000 ft) above the surrounding sedimentary basins. One of these knobs, Taum Sauk Mountain, reaches 540 m (1,772 ft) above sea level and is thehighest point...

• Grand Oral du Bac: L'entreprise

  par exemple la direction des achats, qui se fournit en matières premières, et la direction technique , qui assure la qualité des machines ; • des directions transversales assurent des missions générales de l'entreprise . C'est d'abord le cas de celle des ressources humaines, qui gère le personnel de l'entreprise, ainsi que de la direction juridique, qui assure la conformité de l'action de l'entreprise par rapport à la loi et la protection de ses intér...

• Alaska - geography.

  depression surrounded by highlands and have the coldest winter and hottest summer temperatures in Alaska. Once the Kuskokwim River passes through theKuskokwim Mountains, it forms the southern edge of a vast lake-studded alluvial plain bounded on the north by the Yukon River. This water-logged lowland is a majorsummer nesting area for birds. Fairbanks is the major city in this region, while Fort Yukon is the major community in the Yukon Flats and Bethel the largest settlementon the Lower Kuskokwi...

• Alaska - USA History.

  depression surrounded by highlands and have the coldest winter and hottest summer temperatures in Alaska. Once the Kuskokwim River passes through theKuskokwim Mountains, it forms the southern edge of a vast lake-studded alluvial plain bounded on the north by the Yukon River. This water-logged lowland is a majorsummer nesting area for birds. Fairbanks is the major city in this region, while Fort Yukon is the major community in the Yukon Flats and Bethel the largest settlementon the Lower Kuskokwi...

• Georgia (state) - geography.

  B Rivers and Lakes Most of the rivers of Georgia drain eastward to the Atlantic Ocean proper or southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few flow northward to the Tennessee River, which isa major tributary of the Mississippi River. Most of the rivers flowing to the coasts are navigable by barges and small craft as far upstream as the Fall Line. The major river flowing to the Atlantic is the Savannah River, which, with the Tugaloo River, one of its headwaters, forms most of the state’s eastern bo...

• Georgia (state) - USA History.

  B Rivers and Lakes Most of the rivers of Georgia drain eastward to the Atlantic Ocean proper or southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few flow northward to the Tennessee River, which isa major tributary of the Mississippi River. Most of the rivers flowing to the coasts are navigable by barges and small craft as far upstream as the Fall Line. The major river flowing to the Atlantic is the Savannah River, which, with the Tugaloo River, one of its headwaters, forms most of the state’s eastern bo...

• Grèce antique, art de la.

  4 PÉRIODE ARCHAÏQUE (V. 625-480 AV. J.-C.) Après l'apprentissage des premiers temps, la période archaïque correspond à l'essor et à la maturation qui préparent l'accomplissement de l'époque classique. Les monuments se multiplient dans les grands sanctuaires de Grèce, mais également en Grèce de l'Est, où l'Ionie développe une civilisation brillante, et dans les prospères colonies occidentales. L'art d'Athènes reflète un certain luxe à l'époque du tyran Pisistrate, que dissipent l'instauration...

• Grèce antique, art de la - arts décoratifs.

  4 PÉRIODE ARCHAÏQUE (V. 625-480 AV. J.-C.) Après l'apprentissage des premiers temps, la période archaïque correspond à l'essor et à la maturation qui préparent l'accomplissement de l'époque classique. Les monuments se multiplient dans les grands sanctuaires de Grèce, mais également en Grèce de l'Est, où l'Ionie développe une civilisation brillante, et dans les prospères colonies occidentales. L'art d'Athènes reflète un certain luxe à l'époque du tyran Pisistrate, que dissipent l'instauration...

• Grèce antique, art de la - beaux-arts.

  4 PÉRIODE ARCHAÏQUE (V. 625-480 AV. J.-C.) Après l'apprentissage des premiers temps, la période archaïque correspond à l'essor et à la maturation qui préparent l'accomplissement de l'époque classique. Les monuments se multiplient dans les grands sanctuaires de Grèce, mais également en Grèce de l'Est, où l'Ionie développe une civilisation brillante, et dans les prospères colonies occidentales. L'art d'Athènes reflète un certain luxe à l'époque du tyran Pisistrate, que dissipent l'instauration...

• COUPE2, substantif féminin.

  B.— Par extension. 1. Manière dont une chose est coupée, taillée. Coupe en biseau; vêtement de bonne coupe, de coupe élégante. Une longue redingote de coupe romantique (ANDRÉ GIDE, Si le grain ne meurt, 1924, page 517) : Ø 2.... il fit comme beaucoup : l'imita dans la coupe de sa barbe, l'arrangement de ses cheveux, la forme de sa redingote, sa démarche, son geste... GUY DE MAUPASSANT, Contes et nouvelles, tome 1, Les Dimanches d'un Bourgeois de Paris, 1880, page 284. — Au figuré. Forme, cont...

• Les anévrismes

  2 2,2 L’anévrisme est un sac dont les parois sont formées d’un reliquat des tuniques artérielles partiellement calcifiées. 2,2,1 Il se forme en son sein un thrombus intra-anévrismal, par accumulation de lamelles concentriques de fibrine, qui délimite un chenal circulant dont le diamètre est proche de celui de la lumière artérielle normale. 2,2,2 Parfois une gangue inflammatoire se forme autour de l’anévrysme plus particulièrement sur ses faces antérieures et latérales. Cette gangue peut adhérer...

• La représentation est-ce l'usurpation ?

  public, à la paix religieuse et à la tolérance dans une société démocratique », de ce fait, même si un pays décide, à la majorité, d'imposer une religion unique, celui-cise verra interdit du fait qu'il ait ratifié les traités. D'un point de vue positif, on constate que certaines démocraties représentatives des Etats européens ont permisl'apparition de l'Union Européenne, ainsi que la généralisation de cette forme de gouvernement et le maintien du respect des droits fondamentaux liés à l'homme. D...