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Ready, set, action! Meet some of nature's coolest movers and shakers.(animal locomotion)(Cover story)
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Animals move around in so many different ways. Snakes zip along the ground undetected, birds soar through the air, and fish swim swiftly through some of the strongest ocean currents. How do they do it? Many animals have special body parts that help them move around in these wonderful ways. Discover some of these physical features and learn how they help nature's acrobats perform awesome athletic tricks.
GETTING A GRIP
Wild cats are speedy runners, but cheetahs are champs. They can run up to 113 kilometers (70 miles) per hour--faster than any land animal. ...
 "The Economist (US)")
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Monstrous or maligned; France and the second world war.(Petain)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...France's wartime leader, Marshal Petain, really just a cipher? A new...soft on the "Saviour of Verdun" HENRI-PHILIPPE PETAIN was the most obscure of those...of social mobility, the army. Petain commanded regiments, lectured...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1951: Petain Welcome
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...s ''hospitality'' to France's former Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, ''should the occasion arise'' in which he could...it. Franco, a personal friend of 94-year-old Petain, made the offer in an interview today with the Madrid...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1951: Death of Petain
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; International Herald Tribune 07-24-2001 PARIS The death of Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain yesterday [July 23] intensifies the public controversy over the death sentence, subsequently commuted to life imprisonment...
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INTELLECTUALS SIGN STATEMENT DEPLORING WREATH FOR PETAIN
News Wire article from: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
; ...DEPLORING WREATH FOR PETAIN. PARIS, Nov. 22...have honored Marshal Philippe Petain, who "betrayed the...French coast, where Petain is buried. Mitterrand...own Socialist Party. Henri Emmanuelli, president...
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MITTERRAND RECONSIDERS WREATH FOR TOMB OF VICHY LEADER PETAIN
News Wire article from: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
; ...WREATH FOR TOMB OF VICHY LEADER PETAIN. PARIS, Nov. 15 (JTA...contradiction between Marshal Philippe Petain as a hero of World War I and Petain, the Vichy leader and "shame...his own Socialist Party. Henri Emmanuelli, president of...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Why France turned on its foolish hero; Critic's choice.(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Byline: PETER LEWIS PETAIN by Charles Williams (Little, Brown...scapegoats are rarely attempted. Petain was both. As France's national...has been unduly praised while Henri-Philippe Petain, who refused to leave, has been...
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Lunar astronaut, French traitor.(BOOKS)(BIOGRAPHY)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...fallen more precipitously, than Henri Philippe Petain, the "hero of Verdun" in World...Made a Marshal of France in 1918, Petain chose the wrong side in World War...to death for treason in 1945. Petain was no military genius, but in...
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Une jeunesse francaise, Francois Mitterrand: 1934-1947.
Magazine article from: The National Interest
; ...controversies--his service with Marshal Petain's Vichy regime, and his continuing...the four years of Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain's French State, which turned...Mitterrand looked to General Henri Giraud, an important figure in...
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La main droite de Dieu.
Magazine article from: The National Interest
; ...controversies--his service with Marshal Petain's Vichy regime, and his continuing...the four years of Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain's French State, which turned...Mitterrand looked to General Henri Giraud, an important figure in...
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Un temps de chien.
Magazine article from: The National Interest
; ...controversies--his service with Marshal Petain's Vichy regime, and his continuing...the four years of Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain's French State, which turned...Mitterrand looked to General Henri Giraud, an important figure in...
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