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  • Normale, which is the preparatory school for the French university, lost seventy per cent of its pupils.

    Fighting France St��phane Lauzanne

  • The Algerian title "Normale" examines what happened in the Algerian street as neighboring countries' dictators were being toppled.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • A team consisting of Anne-Florence Bitbol and Nicolas Taberlet of Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon, Jim McElwaine of the University of Cambridge, and Stephen Morris of the University of Toronto, working in England and France, have managed to create washboard surfaces in the laboratory — and just as importantly, model them mathematically.

    The washboard effect ewillett 2009

  • Dini has even been talking with La Scuola Normale Superiore, Alta Space and Norman Foster to design a printer that would work with moon dust, essentially creating a machine that can make an almost-instant moonbase!

    3-D Printer Creates Entire Buildings From Solid Rock | Inhabitat 2010

  • But instead of going on, as his mother had hoped, to the École Normale Supérieure, then as now the gateway for advancement in France, he dropped out and joined a circle of avant-garde artists and writers who congregated around the Mercure de France literary review, which included the poets Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry, the novelist André Gide, and the painters Bonnard and Vuillard.

    That Ubu That He Did So Well Gabriel Josipovici 2012

  • In 1917, Cartier designed a watch with a square dial sitting between two extended sidebars and dubbed his creation Tank Normale.

    An Icon That Withstands the Test of Time Michael Clerizo 2011

  • "These organisms represent a veritable melting pot of traits — a hybrid of genetic mechanisms contributed by ancestral lineages of plants, animals, and bacteria, and optimized over the relatively short evolutionary timeframe of 180 million years since they first appeared," says first author Chris Bowler of the Ecole Normale Supérieure.

    2008 October - Telic Thoughts 2008

  • Mixing with the elite at the École Normale began another process of disenchantment, when he observed at firsthand that "cardinal axiom of French intellectual life", as he drily called it, "a radical disjunction between the uninteresting evidence of your own eyes and ears and the incontrovertible conclusions to be derived from first principles".

    Tony Judt obituary 2010

  • He proved an exceptional student, and was taken under the wing of Thomas Rudmose-Brown, professor of French, who did all he could to advance the young man's career, securing for him on graduation first a visiting lectureship at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris, then a position back at Trinity College.

    The Making of Samuel Beckett Coetzee, J.M. 2009

  • The findings, reported by Alessandro Cellerino of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and colleagues, support the potential utility of the compound in human aging research.

    February 6th, 2006 2006

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