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FILE - This is a 1999 file portrait of French fashion designer Paco Rabanne who has announced Tuesday July 6,1999 that he will present his last Haute Couture fashion collection next July 17 in Paris. The main voice of the sky-is-falling faction is Paco Rabanne, the fashion designer, who has written a book based on his interpretation of Nostradamus that says the Russian orbital station Mir will explode over Paris next Aug.11, raining 40 tons of steel down on the French capital.(AP Photo/Nathaniel Goldberg)