To find answers to these questions, the team trawled through the data that have accumulated since the Pierre Auger observatory began operating three years ago.

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It was not until the 1995 municipal elections that she fought her first electoral battle, becoming deputy, and heir-apparent, to Pierre Mauroy, mayor since 1973 of Lille.

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Since it sprouted from the ground in 1995--everyone knows the apocryphal story of founder Pierre Omidyar and his girlfriend's Pez dispensers (see p. 50)--the company has hidden behind a sort of cyberscreen.

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Since 2004, when doping allegations against Armstrong first came to light in a book by French sports journalist Pierre Ballester, the foundation has experienced steady year-to-year revenue growth, according to financial records, with the exception of a dip from 2005 to 2006, the year Armstrong was cleared of allegations stemming from a 1999 drug test.

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"Failing to acknowledge that sex between men will only increase the vulnerability of men - and women - to HIV infection, since men who cannot talk about their sexual orientation are less likely to seek appropriate support services, " said Dr Pierre Mpele, the UNAids country co-ordinator in Nigeria.

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