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We've seen her rise, we see her shine. Laure is simply fantastique! Sports.fr – Laure Manaudou Manaudou triple la mise Elle est insatiable. Après ses victoires sur 100 mètres dos et 800 mètres, la nageuse française Laure Manaudou a remporté samedi un troisième titre de championne d'Europe dans le petit bassin de Trieste sur l'épreuve du 400 mètres. La protégée de Philippe Lucas a agrémenté sa nouvelle médaille d'or d'un record du monde en 3'56"79, son deuxième après celui du 800 mètres. La seconde nageuse française engagée, Alena Popchanka, finit 4e. Déception en revanche pour Alain Bernard et Fabien Gilot, 4e et 5e sur 100 mètres, loin derrière Filippo Magnini.

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It seems that God has left us: Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Oil industry targets EU climate policy
The documents, an email and a PowerPoint presentation, describe efforts to establish a European coalition to “challenge the course of the EU’s post-2012 agenda”. They were written by Chris Horner, a Washington DC lawyer and senior fellow at the rightwing thinktank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has received more than $1.3m (£750,000) funding from the US oil giant Exxon Mobil. Mr Horner also acts for the Cooler Heads Coalition, a group set up “to dispel the myth of global warming”.

The PowerPoint document sets out plans to establish a group called the European Sound Climate Policy Coalition. It says: “In the US an informal coalition has helped successfully to avert adoption of a Kyoto-style program. This model should be emulated, as appropriate, to guide similar efforts in Europe.”

During the 1990s US oil companies and other corporations funded a group called the Global Climate Coalition, which emphasised uncertainties in climate science and disputed the need to take action. It was disbanded when President Bush pulled the US out of the Kyoto process. Its website now says: “The industry voice on climate change has served its purpose by contributing to a new national approach to global warming.”

We’re our own makers.