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Nature 404, 421 (30 March 2000) | doi:10.1038/35006695
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A squandered opportunity
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The sacking of France's science and education minister was unavoidable. His successor would do well to take on board some of Claude Allègre's goals, but also to learn from his mistakes in reforming French and European research.
A French newspaper joked this week that Claude Allègre, France's departing minister for research and education, might prefer to avoid the traditional courtyard ceremony of handing power over to his successor, in case ministry staff leaned out of their windows to applaud his departure. The jab is unkind.
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