746 résultats pour "1980s"

• Republic of Indonesia - country.

  Mahakam in East Kalimantan and the Martapura and Barito in South Kalimantan. Most of these rivers originate in the island’s central massif (mountain mass) and meander through extensive swamps as they approach the coast. Settlements such as Samarinda and Banjarmasin cluster along the rivers, which serve ascommunication routes into the interior. The largest rivers on Sumatra drain from west to east into the Strait of Malacca. In the north, the Asahan River once linked trade between the Batak peo...

• Health Care System in Canada.

  With a few exceptions, provincial health plans cover all medically necessary services, so that patients need not pay directly for anything except so-called incidental costs.These incidental costs include items such as a patient’s private hospital room, unless it is specified by a physician, and transportation to the hospital. Provincial healthplans also do not cover some nonessential procedures, such as laser surgery for the eye, cosmetic surgery, procedures to reverse sterilization, and, in mos...

• Nepal - geographie.

  gesellschaftliches Ereignis. Weihnachten (25. Dezember) ist ein offizieller Feiertag. An Vollmond im Monat Baisakh (April und Mai) gedenkt man der Geburt, der Erleuchtung und dem Eingang Buddhas in das Nirwana. 3.3 Soziales Nepal ist eines der ärmsten Länder der Welt, mehr als ein Drittel der Menschen lebt unterhalb der Armutsgrenze. Es gibt es keine Wohlfahrtsleistungen des Staates. Diemedizinische Versorgung ist unzureichend. Christliche Missionare haben jedoch Krankenhäuser und Kliniken ge...

• Political Parties in the United States.

  quickly enabled the Republican Party to overpower the Know-Nothings. Although the Republicans lost their first campaign for the presidency in 1856, they triumphed in1860 with former congressman Abraham Lincoln. The Republican victory resulted in part from the division of the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern factions,each of which ran its own presidential candidate, and in part from their success at attracting Whigs and Know-Nothings who had opposed the Republicans in 1856.During the C...

• Iran - country.

  Zagros mountains. In the more arid central part of the country, wild pistachio and other drought-resistant trees grow in areas that have not been disturbed by humanactivity. Tamarisk and other salt-tolerant bushes grow along the margins of the Dasht-e Kavir. A wide variety of native mammals, reptiles, birds, and insects inhabit Iran. Many species of mammals—including wolves, foxes, bears, mountain goats, red mountainsheep, rabbits, and gerbils—continue to thrive. Others—including Caspian tigers,...

• September 11 Attacks - U.

  around and flew it back toward Washington, D.C. Flying low and fast, the airplane hit the Pentagon at 9:37 AM. In a bit of good fortune, the plane crashed into the west side of the building, which had recently been reinforced with stronger construction and blast-resistant windows in order to withstand a terrorist attack. Even so, theplane penetrated three of the Pentagon’s five concentric rings, taking a chunk out of the building and incinerating dozens of offices and the people who worked in t...

• Cuba - country.

  Only two land mammals, the hutia, or cane rat, and the solenodon, a rare insectivore that resembles a rat, are known to be indigenous. The island has numerous batsand nearly 300 kinds of birds, including vultures, wild turkeys, quail, finches, gulls, macaws, parakeets, and hummingbirds. The bee hummingbird of Cuba is thesmallest bird in the world. Among the few reptiles are tortoises, caimans, the Cuban crocodile, and a species of boa that can attain a length of 3.7 m (12 ft). More than700 speci...

• 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...

• Iraq - country.

  The Euphrates begins in Turkey, crosses Syria, and enters Iraq at Abū Kam āl. The flow of the Euphrates into Iraq has been greatly reduced by dams built by Turkeyand Syria. The gradient of the Euphrates above the town of H īt, in west central Iraq, is steep. In the 2,640 km (1,640 mi) from its source in Turkey to H īt, the river fallsfrom 3,000 m (10,000 ft) to a low water elevation of 50 m (170 ft) above sea level, an average drop of 1 m per km (6 ft per mi). In Iraq below H īt the fall is very...

• Massachusetts - geography.

  mi). Other large artificial lakes include Wachusett Reservoir, East Brimfield Reservoir, and Cobble Mountain Reservoir. Assawompsett Pond, covering about 10 sq km(about 4 sq mi), is the largest natural lake. North Watuppa Pond and Long Pond are other large natural lakes. Lake Chaubunagungamaug, near Webster, is usuallycalled Webster Lake, because the Algonquian name is difficult to pronounce and spell. The full version of the Native American name is said to be the longest place-namein North Amer...

• Afghanistan - country.

  D Climate Most of Afghanistan has a subarctic mountain climate with dry and cold winters, except for the lowlands, which have arid and semiarid climates. In the mountains and afew of the valleys bordering Pakistan, a fringe effect of the Indian monsoon, coming usually from the southeast, brings moist maritime tropical air in summer.Afghanistan has clearly defined seasons: Summers are hot and winters can be bitterly cold. Summer temperatures as high as 49°C (120°F) have been recorded in thenorth...

• Maine - geography.

  temperatures range from 17° to 21°C (62° to 70°F) with the southern interior being the warmest and the east coast and north the coolest. However, daytime summertemperatures may reach the lower 30°s C (lower 90°s F), and temperatures in winter have fallen as low as -44°C (-48°F) in the interior. D2 Precipitation Precipitation (rainfall and snowfall) in Maine is evenly distributed throughout the year. Most areas receive from 860 to 1,020 mm (34 to 40 in) yearly, although parts ofthe coast are som...

• Maine - USA History.

  temperatures range from 17° to 21°C (62° to 70°F) with the southern interior being the warmest and the east coast and north the coolest. However, daytime summertemperatures may reach the lower 30°s C (lower 90°s F), and temperatures in winter have fallen as low as -44°C (-48°F) in the interior. D2 Precipitation Precipitation (rainfall and snowfall) in Maine is evenly distributed throughout the year. Most areas receive from 860 to 1,020 mm (34 to 40 in) yearly, although parts ofthe coast are som...

• La Pologne est marquée, dans son histoire, par l'opposition entre l'immutabilité de la nation polonaise et la variabilité de son territoire, qui connut quatre partages et disparut deux fois de la carte du monde, en 1795 et en 1939.

  Guerre mondiale valent à la Pologne une population homogène, où les minorités nationales (Ukrainiens, Biélorusses, Allemands) comptent pour moins de 2 %. L'accroissement démographique a d'abord été très rapide (1,3 % par an entre 1946 et 1970), avant de se ralentir à partir des années soixante-dix (0,8 % entre 1970 et 1990, 0,2 % entre 1990 et 1995), en raison de la baisse de la natalité et d'une remontée progressive de la mortalité. La population reste relativement jeune : les moins de 30 ans r...

• Athlétisme: le marathon et la marche (Exposé – Sports & Loisirs – Collège/Lycée)

  Femmes 1980 Adams '"' 2h 49' 42"; 1981 Langlace 2h 48' 24" ; 1982 Cienka 2h 56' 14"; 1983 Courtade "'' 2h 58' 14"; 1984 Levesque "'' 2 h 38' 20" ; 1985 Hurst '"' 2 h 43' 31" ; 1986 Lelut-Rebelo "'' 2 h 32' 16" ; 1987 Co bos''' 2 h 34' 47" ; 1988 Cunha 01 2 h 34' 56" ; 1989 Kojima "' 2h 29' 23" ; 1990 Yamamoto "' 2h 35' 11"; 1991 n. d.; 1992Tit ova'"' 2 h 31' 12" ; 1993 Yoshida "' 2 h 29' 16" ; 1994 Tanigawa "' 2h 27' 55"; 1995 Nagy "'' 2h 31' 43" ; 1996 Te...

• Tennis.

  and interpret rules. The head official on the court, called the chair umpire, sits on a tall chair at one end of the net. A varying number of line judges sit around the courtbeyond the path of the players. Line judges determine whether serves and shots are good or out. A net-cord judge may be employed to determine when a ball touchesthe top of the net, and a foot-fault judge may watch for that specific infraction. In the 1980s electronic devices began to be used in some professional tournaments...

• Libya - country.

  junipers and mastic trees are found in the higher elevations. Only a few large mammals are found in Libya. Wildlife includes desert rodents, hyenas, gazelles, and wildcats. Eagles, hawks, and vultures are common. E Environmental Issues Libya has undertaken a number of major irrigation projects intended to ease the country’s water shortage. The most ambitious is the so-called Great Man-Made River(GMMR), a massive 25-year irrigation scheme begun in 1984. The GMMR is a vast water pipeline system d...

• Royaume-Uni (1980-1981): L'érosion du "thatchérisme" Arrivée au pouvoir avec la victoire conservatrice de mai 1979, Margaret Thatcher a vu son...

  Royaume-Uni (1980-1981): L'érosion du "thatchérisme" Arrivée au pouvoir avec la victoire conservatrice de mai 1979, Margaret Thatcher a vu son autorité politique s'affaiblir peu à peu en 1980. Les premières mesures de son gouvernement (dénationalisation, levée du contrôle des prix et des changes) n'avaient provoqué que de faibles réactions des syndicats, encore traumatisés par la défaite travailliste. L'augmentation constante du chômage (2 380 000 chômeurs en mars 1981, soit 10% de la populatio...

• Belgium - country.

  European Union (EU) directives aimed at improving Belgium’s environmental conditions concern water treatment and water quality, both significant issues in such anindustrial center. Before these directives were issued, the Meuse River, a major source of drinking water, had become polluted from steel production wastes. Otherrivers were polluted with animal wastes and fertilizers. However, Belgium failed to meet EU targets set for the early 2000s for protecting its rivers from farm pollutionand for...

• Native Americans of North America.

  addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...

• Native Americans of North America - Canadian History.

  addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...

• American League: Gold Glove Award Winners.

  1957 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1958 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1959 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1960 Earl Battey Washington Senators 1961 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1962 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1963 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1964 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1965 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1966 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1967 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1968 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1969 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1970 Ray Fosse Cleveland Indians 1971 Ray Fosse Clev...

• National League: Gold Glove Award Winners.

  1957 no award 1958 Del Crandall Milwaukee Braves 1959 Del Crandall Milwaukee Braves 1960 Del Crandall Milwaukee Braves 1961 John Roseboro Los Angeles Dodgers 1962 Del Crandall Milwaukee Braves 1963 Johnny Edwards Cincinnati Reds 1964 Johnny Edwards Cincinnati Reds 1965 Joe Torre Milwaukee Braves 1966 Johnny Roseboro Los Angeles Dodgers 1967 Randy Hundley Chicago Cubs 1968 Johnny Bench Cincinnati Reds 1969 Johnny Bench Cincinnati Reds 1970 Johnny Bench Cincinnati Reds 1971 Johnny Bench Cincinna...

• American League: Gold Glove Award Winners American League: Gold Glove Award Winners (Pitcher).

  1957 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1958 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1959 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1960 Earl Battey Washington Senators 1961 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1962 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1963 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1964 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1965 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1966 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1967 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1968 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1969 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1970 Ray Fosse Cleveland Indians 1971 Ray Fosse Clev...

• Montana - geography.

  (191 sq mi), is Montana’s largest lake, and the largest natural freshwater lake in the contiguous states west of the Mississippi River. C Climate Climatic regions in Montana coincide roughly with the two major physiographic regions. In western Montana, as compared with the eastern plains area, winters tend tobe milder while summers are cooler. Precipitation is more evenly distributed throughout the year in the west, and it is cloudier and somewhat more humid in all seasons.In addition, the grow...

• Montana - USA History.

  (191 sq mi), is Montana’s largest lake, and the largest natural freshwater lake in the contiguous states west of the Mississippi River. C Climate Climatic regions in Montana coincide roughly with the two major physiographic regions. In western Montana, as compared with the eastern plains area, winters tend tobe milder while summers are cooler. Precipitation is more evenly distributed throughout the year in the west, and it is cloudier and somewhat more humid in all seasons.In addition, the grow...

• Greece - country.

  minerals, such as chromium, copper, uranium, and magnesium, are relatively small. Greece’s small petroleum deposits, located under the Aegean Sea near the island ofThásos, are rapidly being depleted. There are no significant reserves of natural gas. Greece’s forests, probably abundant in ancient times, have been significantly depleted. Subsequent soil erosion has made reforestation efforts difficult. Although muchof Greece’s soil is rocky and dry, the country’s mountains are interspersed with sm...

• Egypt - country.

  Egypt has a wide variety of mineral deposits, some of which, such as gold and red granite, have been exploited since ancient times. The chief mineral resource ofcontemporary value is petroleum, found mainly in the Red Sea coastal region, at Al ‘Alamayn (El ‘Alamein) on the Mediterranean, and on the Sinai Peninsula. Otherminerals include phosphates, manganese, iron ore, and uranium. Natural gas is also extracted. D Plants and Animals The vegetation of Egypt is confined largely to the Nile Delta,...

• Camboya - geografía.

  Únicamente el 71,3% de la población camboyana está alfabetizada. Se están desarrollando planes gubernamentales para restablecer y extender el sistema educativo, quese vio interrumpido por la guerra y la posterior represión a finales de la década de 1970. Toda la educación pública es gratuita. En el curso 2000 alrededor de 2,43 millonesde alumnos asistían a unas 5.527 escuelas primarias. Sin embargo, la educación secundaria y superior era muy limitada. Las instituciones de educación superior se c...

• Radsport: Medaillengewinner der Olympischen Sommerspiele.

  1908 GBR: Leonard Meredith,Benjamin Jones, ErnestPayne, ClarenceKingsbury GER: Hermann Martens, MaxGötze, Karl Neumer, RudolfKatzer CAN: William Morton, WalterAndrews, Frederick McCarthy,William Anderson 1920 ITA: Franco Giorgetti,Ruggerio Ferrario,Arnaldo Carli, PrimoMagnani GBR: Albert White, H.Thomas Johnson, WilliamStewart, Cyril Alden RSA: James Walker, William Smith,Henry Kaltenbrun, Harry Goosen 1924 ITA: Angelo De Martini,Alfredo Dinale, AleardoMenegazzi, FrancescoZuccetti POL: Jó...

• Pittsburgh - geography.

  College of Allegheny County (1966), with branches in the city and suburbs. Pittsburgh has many outstanding cultural institutions. The Oakland district is where Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh are located. The CarnegieMuseums of Pittsburgh include The Carnegie Museum of Art (including the Scaife Galleries), which holds a distinguished motion-picture and video collection and a uniquestudy of architecture; the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which displays an extensi...

• Welfare.

  industrializing societies. Governments typically financed social insurance programs with tax funds and direct levies on the wages of potential recipients. Social insurancereplaced part of incomes lost when workers became disabled, were laid off, or had reached an age that forced them out of the labor market. Later, governments of Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, and other countries developed forms of social insurance that provided population-wide, or universal,coverage. Such forms included chil...

• Swimming.

  the swimmer and the pinky finger should enter the water first. At the same time, the swimmer moves the left arm through the water below the left side of the body.Once in the water, the right arm begins pulling the swimmer forward by bending at the elbow. At the same time the swimmer holds the left arm straight as it reachesthe hip and lifts it out of the water. As the right arm continues to pull, the swimmer rotates slightly onto the right side and swings the left arm up above the head. As the s...

• Yemen - country.

  port. Al Ḩudaydah (155,110), in the Tih āmah, is the second largest port. Ta‘izz, (178,043), in the highlands above Aden, is an important commercial and light industrialcenter. Among Yemen’s larger towns are Şa‘dah, far to the north; Dham ār, Yarim, and Ibb, in the middle region; Al Mukall ā, on the southern coast; and in Hadhramaut,the towns of Shib ām, Say‘ ūn, and Tar īm. C Language Nearly all Yemenis speak Arabic. However, the country’s extremely rugged terrain, widely separated population...

• Wars of Yugoslav Succession.

  of Yugoslav succession was over. In January 1992 members of the European Community (EC; after 1993 the European Union, EU) recognized Slovenia’s independencealong with that of Croatia. The United States and other countries did so shortly thereafter. IV THE WAR IN CROATIA As the Yugoslav army withdrew from Slovenia in July 1991, a second and far more serious conflict erupted in Croatia. But the road to war in Croatia began more than ayear earlier. In April and May 1990 the Croatian Democratic U...

• Wars of Yugoslav Succession .

  of Yugoslav succession was over. In January 1992 members of the European Community (EC; after 1993 the European Union, EU) recognized Slovenia’s independencealong with that of Croatia. The United States and other countries did so shortly thereafter. IV THE WAR IN CROATIA As the Yugoslav army withdrew from Slovenia in July 1991, a second and far more serious conflict erupted in Croatia. But the road to war in Croatia began more than ayear earlier. In April and May 1990 the Croatian Democratic U...

• Automobile.

  Electric motors have been used to power automobiles since the late 1800s. Electric power supplied by batteries runs the motor, which rotates a driveshaft, the shaftthat transmits engine power to the axles. Commercial electric car models for specialized purposes were available in the 1980s. General Motors Corporation introduced amass-production all-electric car in the mid-1990s. Automobiles that combine two or more types of engines are called hybrids. A typical hybrid is an electric motor with ba...

• Terrorism.

  exploitation, ethnic discrimination, and religious persecution. Perceived inequities in the distribution of wealth and political power have led some terrorists to attempt tooverthrow democratically elected governments. To achieve a fairer society, they would replace these governments with socialist or communist regimes. Left-wingterrorist groups of the 1960s and 1970s with such aims included Germany’s Baader-Meinhof Gang, Italy’s Red Brigades, and the Weather Underground ( see Weathermen) in the...

• Vietnam - country.

  E Natural Resources Vietnam’s most valuable natural resource is its land, particularly the fertile, alluvial soils in the Red and Mekong deltas. Some 29 percent of the land is currently beingcultivated. Vietnam has some valuable mineral resources, including gold, iron, tin, zinc, phosphate, chromite, apatite, and anthracite coal. Most deposits are located in the northernpart of the country. Few attempts were made to extract these minerals until the French takeover of Vietnam at the end of the 1...

• Bundesrepublik Deutschland - geographie.

  Durch die Zerstörung natürlicher Lebensräume wurde auch die Fauna stark beeinträchtigt. Die großen Raubtiere Braunbär und Wolf wurden bereits vor Jahrhundertenausgerottet, in neuerer Zeit sind Wölfe allerdings in geringer Zahl wieder nach Ostdeutschland eingewandert. Versuche, Luchse und Biber wieder einzubürgern, warengebietsweise erfolgreich. Die landbewohnende Säugetierfauna besteht zudem aus den für Mitteleuropa charakteristischen Arten von Paarhufern (Reh, Rothirsch,Wildschwein), Raubtieren...

• Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Geschichte.

  Durch die Zerstörung natürlicher Lebensräume wurde auch die Fauna stark beeinträchtigt. Die großen Raubtiere Braunbär und Wolf wurden bereits vor Jahrhundertenausgerottet, in neuerer Zeit sind Wölfe allerdings in geringer Zahl wieder nach Ostdeutschland eingewandert. Versuche, Luchse und Biber wieder einzubürgern, warengebietsweise erfolgreich. Die landbewohnende Säugetierfauna besteht zudem aus den für Mitteleuropa charakteristischen Arten von Paarhufern (Reh, Rothirsch,Wildschwein), Raubtieren...

• Hinault Bernard

  Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)Hinault, Bernard - sport. Hinault, Bernard (1954- ), coureur cycliste français, quintuple vainqueur du Tour de France dont il gagna 28 étapes et porta le maillot jaune pendant 78 jours, considéré comme l'un des plus grands coureurs de tous les temps. Bernard Hinault est né à Yffiniac (aujourd'hui en Côte-d'Armor). Il enleva sa première victoire lors du Championnat de France de poursuite amateurs, en 1974. Devenu peuaprès professionnel, il domina le cyclisme mondi...

• Le basket-ball (Exposé – Sports & Loisirs – Collège/Lycée)

  PETIT LEXIQUE DE LA NBA Center : pivot. Draft : système de recrutement annuel des joueurs qui avan tage les équipes les moins bien classées . Dunk : sma sh . Forward : ailier. Free-throw : lancer franc. Full court press : défense de zone . Guard : arrière . Long range shooter : tire u r à 3 points. Man to man : marq uage individuel. Most valuable player (MVP) : meilleur joueur d'un match ou de la saison . Point guard : meneur de jeu. Rebound :...

• La population japonaise

  Document 2 : Évolution générale de la population en millions d'habitants : 1875 1900. 1910 1930 1940 1948 1957 1967 1976 1980 1983 34 44 50 64 73 80 90 100 113 117 119,9 Document 3 :Évolution des taux de natalité et de mortalité (%o) Natalité Mortalité 1921-1925 0 •••••••••• 35,0 23,0 1946 ••••••• 0 0 ••••••• 25,3 17,6 1947 ................ 34,3 14,5 1955 ................ 19,4 7,8 1965 •••••• 0. 0 ••••••• 18,6 7,1 1980 ••••••• 0...

• SÉCHERESSE ET FAMINES

  Sécheresse et famines "' OCÉAN ATLANTIQUE 0 0000 § ZONES DE stCHERESSE OE LA CORNE OE L'AFRIQUE ITIIIIl SAHEL le Sénégal, le Burkina Faso, le Mali, le Niger, le Tc had ainsi qu'une partie du Soudan. Le nom Sahel vient d'un mot arabe signifiant lisière. Cette région subit depuis la fin des années 1960 de longues périodes de sécheresse et ses occupants souffrent fréquemment de la famine. Les autres régions particulièrement exposées à ces catastrophes s...

• Canoë-kayak (hommes) : palmarès JO.

  1936 Autriche : Adolf Kainz,Alfons Dorfner Allemagne : Ewald Tilker,Fritz Bondroit Pays-Bas : Nicolas Tates,Willem van der Kroft 1948 Suède : Hans Berglund,Lennart Klingström Danemark : Ejvind Hansen,Bernhard Jensen Finlande : Thor Axelsson,Nils Björklöf 1952 Finlande : Kurt Wires, YrjöHietaner Suède : Lars Glassér,Ingemar Hedberg Autriche : Max Raub,Herbert Wiedermann 1956 Allemagne : MichaelScheuer, MeinradMiltenberger URSS : Mikhail Kaaleste,Anatoli Demitkov Autriche : Max Raub,Herbert Wied...

• Article de presse: Iran-Irak, une interminable guerre d'usure

  soldats de Téhéran, partis de Desfoul et de Suse, d'effectuer une percée spectaculaire de 50 km en direction de la frontière. Plusde 2 000 kilomètres carrés de territoire sont reconquis en une semaine. Le président Hussein reconnaît implicitement la défaite endemandant à ses troupes de " ne pas sombrer dans l'amertume ", face à ce qu'il appelle pudiquement " la modification de noslignes défensives ". Bagdad commence à assouplir ses conditions pour une paix négociée, ne réclamant plus que le "...

• risques technologiques - agriculture et agroalimentaire.

  La maîtrise des risques diffère donc selon les secteurs d’activités, sachant que les accidents graves et les catastrophes sont habituellement suivies de mesures visant àaméliorer leur gestion. Mais des difficultés subsistent et d’autres apparaissent. Les risques majeurs dans les domaines de haute technologie sont toujours très présents(notamment dans le secteur nucléaire). Des risques industriels ou de transports classiques peuvent également devenir des risques majeurs en raison de la vulnérabil...

• Motorradsport: Weltmeister.

  1993 Dirk Raudies (Deutschland) Honda 1994 Kazuto Sakata (Japan) Aprilia 1995 Haruchika Aoki (Japan) Honda 1996 Haruchika Aoki (Japan) Honda 1997 Valentino Rossi (Italien) Aprilia 1998 Kazuto Sakata (Japan) Aprilia 1999 Emilio Alzamora (Spanien) Honda 2000 Roberto Locatelli (Italien) Aprilia 2001 Manuel Poggiali (San Marino) Gilera 2002 Daniel Pedrosa (Spanien) Honda 2003 Daniel Pedrosa (Spanien) Honda 2004 Andrea Dovizioso (Italien) Honda 2005 Thomas Lüthi (Schweiz) Honda 2006 Alvaro Bautista (...

• Le Clézio, Désert, 1980. Ils étaient les hommes et les femmes de sable, du vent, de la lumière, de la...

  Le Clézio, Désert, 1980. Ils étaient les hommes et les femmes de sable, du vent, de la lumière, de la nuit. Ils étaient apparus, comme dans un rêve, en haut d’une dune, comme s’ils étaient nés du ciel sans nuages, et qu’ils avaient dans leurs membres la dureté de l’espace. Ils portaient avec eux la faim, la soif qui fait saigner les lèvres, le silence dur où luit le soleil, les nuits froides, la lueur de la Voie lactée, la lune ; ils avaient avec eux leur ombre géante au coucher du soleil, les v...