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want to claim full pension benefits must now wait until age 67 instead of 65.

500,000 people marched in more than 240 demonstrations in Paris and around the country.

France has one of the lowest retirement ages in the developed world.

will cause the administration to back down

current $44 billion to $138 billion

"This is a done deal and the French know it

this would delay a young person's entry into the labor force

If an older worker is forced to work an extra couple of years

youth unemployment already absurdly high

over 20 percent

young people need to realize they will live longer

reduce benefits.

Taylor fitted a faulty metal strip on a Continental DC-10 weeks

a strip that eventually tumbled onto the runway

Air France Concorde's tire

The cosmetics industry maintains that animal testing is the only way to be sure that ingredients in cosmetics and personal hygiene products will not c

ause cancer or aggravate allergies

France has consistently opposed the EU ban. Collectively, the cosmetics companies in France make it the largest animal tester in Europe. However, opinion polls indicate that 60 percent of French citizens oppose animal testing

ommercial flights for 27 year

20 aircraft

represented a substantial economic los

ubsidised by their governments

n the late 1950s, the United Kingdom, France, United States and Soviet Unio

upersonic transport.

Bristol Aeroplane Company

Sud Aviation

Type 223 a

Super-Caravelle

ncreased radiation exposure

high altitude

Concorde

passengers received almost twice the flux of extraterrestrial ionising radiation as those travelling on a conventional long-haul fligh

pposition to Concorde’s noise,

Concorde produced nitrogen oxides in its exhaust,

o produce a net degradation to the ozone layer at the stratospheric altitudes it cruised

service was discontinued after three return flights because of noise complaints from the Malaysian government;

r transatlantic flights from London Heathrow (British Airways) and Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (Air France) to New York JFK and Washington Dulles

sonic boom, takeoff-noise and pollution

but with a history of tyre explosions 60 times higher than subsonic jets.

Safety improvements

specially-developed burst-resistant tyres.

It will affect websites, fashion houses, magazines and advertisers.

those found to have encouraged severe weight loss could be fined up to 45,000 euros and face three years in prison.

"Encouraging young girls to lie to their doctors, advising them on foods that are easier to regurgitate and inciting them to beat themselves up each time they eat is not freedom of expression," Ms Bachelot told the assembly.

It is necessary because we know now that we have a risk to some part of the population, young girls, who are pressed by different types of lobbies and the risk is increasing."

he law could also affect the fashion industry and magazine editors who publish photographs of extremely thin models.

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he BBC's Emma Jane Kirby in Paris says that with 40,000 anorexics in France, many parliamentarians feel the law cannot come soon enough.