NP another reason not to talk to the press

[Doug Millison]

Designer sorry for Mir prediction

PARIS (AP) - Six weeks after incorrectly predicting that Paris would
be destroyed by the Mir space station, an embarrassed Paco Rabanne
has owned up to making "a huge blunder." This summer, the Paris
fashion designer was warning anybody who would listen that the City
of Light would be engulfed in flames after being hit by Mir during
the solar eclipse on Aug. 11. His prediction was based on his
interpretation of the work of the prophet Nostradamus. But as the sun
reappeared and Paris emerged unscathed, jeering crowds held a
champagne "survivors' party" outside Rabanne's Paris headquarters.
"My analysis was wrong, completely wrong," Rabanne said in an
interview on Canal Plus TV. "I made a massive mistake, a huge
blunder, and now I publicly apologize." See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561345119-d97