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FRENCH RESEARCH: One-Two Punch Leaves Physicists Gasping for Breath
John Bohannon and Barbara Casassus
PARIS--Scientists in France are reeling from the news that one of the country's largest research institutions, the Commission for Atomic Energy, intends to pull out of two major physics facilities.