Annette Messager Project Number Five

The headline of the article in "Floyd Landis takes aim after drugs admission".
It is an article issued of "TimesOnline".
The article was written the 21st May of 2010 by Owen Slot.

The article focuses on an American cyclist Floyd Landis, whose victory in the Tour de France had been annulled following a positive drug test, sent a series of emails to cycling authorities and sponsors in which he admits he doped consistently throughout his career. He also accused other riders and team managers have been involved in doping, including his countryman, Seven-time winner of the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong. So far, Landis had always denied having doped during the Tour de France 2006. He specifically said shortly after he tested positive in 2006: "I am proud to have won the Tour de France, because I was the fittest." The Wall Street Journal, which had access to three of those emails where Landis says his former coach and friend of Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel, had introduced him to the patches of steroids, blood doping and growth hormones during his first years at U.S. Postal in 2002 and 2003. He also writes that Armstrong, he helped win three loops in U.S. Postal Service from 2002 to 2004, has helped him better understand the mechanisms of doping, they had long discussions about it during training, Lance Armstrong was explaining the evolution of how to test for EPO and blood transfusions became necessary because of these new tests inconvenient. Landis scratches in passing the current anti-doping system, calling it a comic, and explains how to take EPO without getting caught.

To my mind,I think that Floyd Landis seeks to bring down as many people as possible in the fall especially Lance Armstrong, since these comments came a few weeks of the Tour de France and California during the dispute that Armstrong, even if it is not quite clear since it does have some precedent in the middle of doping.

Annette Messager Project Number Four

The headline of the article in "Gulf of Mexico oil spill sparks new US drilling ban".
It is an article from "BBC".
The article was written the 30th April of 2010 by Paul Adams.

The article focuses on a catastrophe that could become more the biggest oil disaster, indeed, the April 20, of 2010, a platform of the energy giant british BP Deepwater Horizon, situated in the Gulf of Mexico, which the well is located 50 miles (80km) from the coast and to 4.900 feet (1.500m) depth.
Sank Thurday, two days after a massive explosion followed by fire, causing a gigantic oil spill estimated at 3.850 sq. miles (9.900 km²).
This cloth which grows, feeds 5.000 barrels (820.000 l) that gush every days, threatening the Louisiana coast.
Eco-system and sinners of Louisiana, barely recovered from the storm Katrina, are again the victim of a disaster.
Bad weather conditions do not facilitate the work of emergency workers and nearly 300 ships and aircraft, in fact, strong winds could bring the petrol in many streams, ponds and lakes of southeast of Louisiana.
To limit damages, the dispersant are sprayed by aircraft from U.S. AIR Force and by BP, 1 million feet (304km) of floating boom have been deployed, portions of the cloth have been inflamed and robot submarines have been sent to stop the leak but so far no success.

To my mind, the tanker group has not taken seriously enough the risks accidents on an oil platform and now that the disaster happened, they have at their disposal that means derisive that can not prevent the ravages of the black tide.

Annette Messager Project Number Three

The headline of the article is "Nuclear weapons arsenals to be cut after landmark US and Russia deal".

It is an article from "Guardian".

The article was written the 26th March of 2010 by Julian Borger and Luke Harding.

The article concentrates on Barack Obama and Dimitri Medvedev, respectively president of United States of America and Russia, are preparing to sign the most significant disarmament treaty since 20 years, on 8th April during a ceremony in Prague.

This treaty called "New Start" will limit the number of warheads from 2200 to 1550 which is represented a decrease of 74% compared to the treaty "Start 1" which was signed at the end of the Cold War in 1991 and 30% from the Moscow Treaty of 2002.

Moreover, the two countries, which possess 90% of nuclear warheads in the world, will reduce to 800 the number of launchers that are represented a decrease of 50%.

However, there is no limit to the number of missile defence.

To my mind, I think it'sa great initiative from the new Nobel Peace, even small, evry action in favor of peace is worth taking, but these two nations are still the power to destroy all life on earth if they wish.

Annette Messager Project Number Two

The headline of the article is "Chile earthquake kills 122 and triggers tsunami".
It is an article from "The Times".

The article was written the 27th February of 2010 by Robin Henry.

The article concentrates on the night of 26 to 27 February of 2010, where at 3:34am, local time, struck the most powerful chilean earthquate since 50 years with a magnitude of 8.8 in the Richter's scale shook the capital Santiago during one minute and half. The strongest of this region, with a magnitude of 9.5, had killed 1655 people and made 2 million of homeless. In this coastal country, located in a very active seismic zone because it is positioned at the junction of two tectonic plates, earthquates are relatively common. This earthquake and its three aftershocks of 6.9, 6.2 and 5.6, have currently killed 122 people and destroyed property, power and telephone lines. But this jolt can cause a tsunami (like Haïti), that why 53 countries are on tsunami alert including some Europan and the trial balance may well get worse...

To my mind, seismic measurements as construction of many buildings to resist earthquake have considerably reduced the number of death, especially since the population was sleeping under their houses. Indeed the trial balance human was devided by 14 compared to the earthquake of 1960, so there has been some progresse even if the balance is not zero.

Annette Messager Project Number One

The headline is " 5 things to watch for at the Copenhagen Climate-Change Conference "
It was written the 7th December of 2009 by Bryan Walsh.
The article focuses on the Copenhaguen's Conference.



The Copenhagen Summit on Climate, which brought together from 7 to 19 December 2009 193 countries and 130 Heads of State and Government, but the balance sheet remains disappoointing. The Conference has resulted in a minimum agreement, a political text non-binding generally described as inafequate, which isn't signed by all countries. This agreement ambitions limited to combat global warming is far to meet the expectations expressed by unprecedented mobilization at the word. The United Nations Conference on the climate, which took place in extreme tension, has thus merely "tack Act" of the Copenhagen's agreement in extremis the day before. By January 2010, countries must show their objectives, but no legal constraint hits on them. Thus, the agreement does not impose on states to implement a treaty to take over from the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012. Conference on climete change? provided for Mexico in December 2010 will have strong to deliver started poorly process by on agreement which provides no deadline for the conclusion of a treaty.


SOURCE :

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1929071_1929070_1945894,00.html