The French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet (born 1922) achieved fame for his innovative techniques in writing fiction. Influential in avant-garde Paris intellectual circles, his controversial critical th...
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Born in Brest, in Brittany, on 18 August 1922, Alain Robbe-Grillet, the most influential French writer of his generation, is the son of Gaston Robbe-Grillet, owner of a small manufacturing business (h...
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Singapore (dpa) - Faced with too few babies to replace the
population, Singapore is turning to private industry for matchmaking,
the government said on Friday.
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The U.S. is dismantling unneeded nuclear warheads at a faster pace than forecast as it substantially reduces its atomic arsenal under terms of an arms control treaty with Russia, government officia...
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Prime Minister Tony Blair told lawmakers Wednesday that it was essential for Britain to replace its four nuclear-armed submarines to meet possible future threats from rogue regimes and state-sponso...
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Friday a recall by
Finland's Nokia Corp. of mobile phone batterie...
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Gov. Dave Freudenthal said at his inauguration Tuesday for a second term that the state needed to look to the future. Freudenthal said investments in transportation, health care, telecommunications...
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Stockholm (dpa) - State-owned Swedish energy concern Vattenfall on
Saturday admitted further serious security deficiencies at its
controversial Forsmark nuclear power plant....
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Tehran (dpa) - The former commander replaced as head of Iran's
paramilitary Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Sunday played down the
replacement, saying the change was "quite natu...
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Farm minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi said Friday he has accepted
vice minister Yoshio Kobayashi's offer to resign and named Fisheries
Agency Director General Toshiro Shirasu to replace Kobayas...
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Resting atop the Trident II missile, the W88 warhead is among the mainstays of the country's submarine-based nuclear arsenal. For years, however, testing the warhead's components to ensure the weap...
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Singapore turns to private sector to promote matchmaking
