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French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, left, and Portugal's Science and Technology Minister Jose Mariano Gago, right, listen to a speech, during the official inauguration of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest atom-smasher in a mission to answer some of the most perplexing questions in the cosmos controol, at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, October 21, 2008. (KEYSTONE/Pool/Laurent Gillieron)