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GENEVA (AP) - A European laboratory that was the birthplace of the World Wide Web and home of Nobel prize-winning developments in understanding the origins of the universe celebrated its 50th birthday Tuesday. But French President Jacques Chirac warned that despite those illustrious achievements, European scientists are falling behind. Chirac and King Juan Carlos of Spain were featured speakers at the celebrations of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by the French initials CERN, which was created in part to help stop the brain drain from postwar Europe to the United States. "In terms of Nobel prizes, publications, patents...

July 26, 2003 The Conceited Empire A historian credited with predicting the downfall of the Soviet Union in the 1970s now says that the US has been on its way out for the last decadeby Martin A. Senn and Felix Lautenschlager translated by Andreas Artz The power and influence of the United States is being overestimated, claims French historian and demographer Emmanuel Todd. "There will be no American Empire." "The world is too large and dynamic to be controlled by one power." According to Todd, whose 1976 book predicted the fall of the Soviet Union, there is no question: the...