Wasps

Pau c. Pays d'Aix. Dimanche 18 avril, à 15 heures : Agen c. Narbonne (Sport+). ■ CHALLENGE EUROPÉEN QUARTS DE FINALE/HIER Connacht 23 - Bourgoin 20, ; Toulon 38 - Scarlets 12. Connacht et Toulon qualifiés pour les demi-finales. ■ AUJOURD’HUI Wasps - Gloucester à 15 heures, Newcastle - Cardiff à 16 heures. ■ LEINSTER 29 ASM CLERMONT 28 Samedi 22 mai, à 18 h 30 au Stade de France à Saint-Denis FINALE Pdd LA MONTAGNE DIMANCHE 11 AVRIL 2010 29 Sports ■ TÉLÉGRAMMES RUGBY/FÉMININES

well as the world’s fastest tortoise). SPACE ISN’T REMOTE AT ALL. IT’S ONLY AN HOUR’S DRIVE AWAY IF YOUR CAR COULD GO STRAIGHT UPWARDS. FREDHOYLER Other animals in space have included chimps (who all survived), guinea pigs, frogs, rats, cats, wasps, beetles, spiders, and a very hardy fish called the mummichog. The first Japanese animals in space were ten newts in 1985. The only survivors of theColumbia space-shuttle disaster in 2003 were some nematode worms from the shuttle’s lab found among

Persians then resorted to the obvious strategy of baffled land-power; under King Xerxes they marched round, throwing a bridge of boats over the Dardanelles, and entered the peninsula from the north, with the idea of destroying the nest whence the wasps emerged which stung them and flew elusively away. The Persian effort failed, and it was reserved for the half-Greek, half-barbaric Macedonians, established in the root of the Greek Peninsula itself, to end the first cycle of sea-power by conquering