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I fixed the link to Kraft's paper
Peter McNamara
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No. Counterexamples were first constructed by Winkelmann, as quotients of $\mathbb A^5$ by algebraic actions of $\mathbb G_{\text{a}}$. I learned this from Hanspeter Kraft's very nice article available here:

http://www.numdam.org/numdam-bin/item?id=SB_1994-1995__37__295_0.

Recently Aravind Asok and Brent Doran have been studying these kinds of examples in the setting of $\mathbb A^1$-homotopy theory, on the arxiv as math/0703137.

David Treumann
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