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Health Care, What Do You Think Of The French System?

12 hours ago ago from The Boston 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Boston, MA

Why does no one talk about the French system? Everyone talks about Canada and socialism. Take a look at this article and see what you think. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editori…

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Update on French book digitization

33 minutes ago ago from Industry in Progress

Last week I wrote about France's proposed plan to digitize their national collections . Moving ahead with this, it has been officially announced that France will in fact receive a €35bn national loan. Of this, about €150m is already marked for the digitization of the French National Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, BNF). €750m is earmarked for digitization of museum, library and cultural works throughout the country. The €150m ...

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And Then There's France

13 hours ago ago from PhiloBiblos

As debate continues to simmer in this country about how best to respond to Google's digitization efforts - namely whether or not the Google Book Settlement should be approved in its revised form , and what that will mean for the future of digitization in this country - France has done what the U.S. probably ought to have done five or ten years ago: on Monday President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a pledge of the equivalent of $1.1 billion ...

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750 Million Pledged to Digitize France’s National Heritage

15 hours ago ago from www.fr2day.com - What's on in the French Riviera and the South of France

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France to boost its nuke industry, seeks foreign investors

21 hours ago ago from nuclear-news

France seeks foreign cash to grow nuclear sector PARIS, Dec 14 (Reuters) By Nina Sovic h - France pledged 1 billion euros ($1.5 billion) to support next generation reactor design and said it would seek foreign capital to back its move to the forefront of nuclear energy expansion. The investment is part of a 35 billion-euro spending plan French President Nicolas Sarkozy Sarkozy unveiled on Monday aimed at improving France's ...

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France to Digitize Its Own Literary and Historical Works

21 hours ago ago from The New York Times

PARIS President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged nearly $1.1 billion on Monday toward the computer scanning of French literary works, audiovisual archives and historical documents, an announcement that underscored his government's desire to maintain control over France 's cultural heritage in an era of digitization. The French National Library announced in August that it was engaged in discussions with Google over the digitization of its ...

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French minister to Muslims: Speak properly

4 hours ago ago from NBC

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