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Michael Cosgrove

Michael Cosgrove is a Lyon, France-based freelance journalist, business translator, and interpreter and teaches English to French businesspeople. He also keeps an opinion blog, Thegoodbadtruth, on political and other issues.

Website : Email : mcosgrove@fleshandstone.net
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Global wind power sees large increases in investment

China and the United States are currently heading a worldwide upsurge in the installation of wind power capacity to the surprise of some analysts. The ...
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French face transplant specialist awaits go-ahead to help wounded GIs

Contacted last year by American authorities for his knowledge and experience in facial transplants, professor Laurent Lantieri, MD, transmitted their appeals to French authorities. Since ...
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France bans sibutramine for obesity in advance of expected Europe-wide ban

The sibutramine ban may be received as very bad news for obese French and European citizens who, due to stringent health safeguards, already have a ...
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Study: Eating slower reduced obesity in children

The study’s objective was to determine whether or not the instrument modified eating behavior in overweight children. The study is published this month in the ...
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Online and telephone psychological consultations 24/7 begin in France

While it's common in the United States and Canada, telephone counseling of patients by psychologists has only recently become an option in France due to ...
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Study: Antidepressants no better than a placebo for many patients

Many millions of people use antidepressants, but do they work, and if so, for whom? JAMA has just published the results of a recent study ...
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H1N1 vaccines available at rock bottom prices in Europe

In a scenario that would have been unimaginable just two months ago, European countries are now scrambling to sell off hundreds of millions of H1N1 ...
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British study concludes that G-spot may not exist

The Gräfenberg spot - or “G-spot” - is said to be a bean-shaped area of the vagina which, when stimulated, leads to elevated levels of ...
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French society confronted by extremely high suicide rates

The suicide rate in French prisons has risen 15-fold over the last 50 years, from 4 to 19 suicides per 10,000 prisoners between 1960 and ...
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The climate change and pollution debate is a dull and crippling bore

Which is the odd man out among pedophile priests, racism, World War ll, an oil-polluted seabird, AIDS and Michael Jackson’s death? The answer is that if ...
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Study: American food waste rising along with obesity rates

Americans throw away over 40 percent of all available food each year. Production of that wasted food accounts for more than one-quarter of the U.S.’s ...
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WWF report: Green energy technology set to become an industrial mammoth

Today's release of the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) report, “Clean Economy, Living Planet - Building Strong Clean Energy Technology Industries,”  comes just as the Copenhagen ...
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France steps up efforts to disclose hospital-acquired infections, other performance data

Beginning January 2010, patients in France will be able to consult comparable performance data on hospitals when choosing where to receive care. Hospitals will be ...
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The emails and the ‘Danish Leak’ may kill Copenhagen and that is good news

"The debate on climate change does not belong to the political left or right, it is not a playground for scientists and their ideas, and ...
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Study: No evidence of brain cancer increase in mobile phone users

The polemic on mobile phone risks is continuing apace, with all eyes riveted on the major Interphone European study on mobile phone use which is ...
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Family practice physicians discuss the uproar over H1N1 vaccinations in France

Less than one month ago, French public opinion was overwhelmingly hostile to the idea of vaccination, with over 80 percent saying they would not, or ...
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H1N1 France: From vaccine refusal to riot police in just 7 days

The extreme cynicism with which the French considered H1N1 vaccination just one week ago has been replaced by panic and exasperation at not being able ...
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Water management: How the French do it

Olivier Fontaine coordinates study data for the technical data unit of the Rhône-Mediterranean-Corsica branch of the ‘Agence de l’eau’ (Water Agency), the French body that ...
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Man in 23-year ‘coma’ was conscious all along

Rom Houben describes his experiences in an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel which is being published in many European papers, including Liberation in France. ...
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“It’s all so different to studying in France”

The following is an authorized translation of an article appearing in Le Figaro. The original version is available here. Internet members of Le Figaro recount ...
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