What happened to these children's right to live?
The Lebanon conflict was characterised by immoral conduct on both sides, says David Rodin, who delves into just war theory. Morality, like truth, is too often among the first casualties of war. Yet...
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You, sir, are a cad, a cheat and a bounder
Call them old-fashioned, but Clive Bloom and John Higgins deplore the blatant plagiarism rife among the Wikipedia generation. We used to call it cheating: the stealing of somebody else's words by...
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What he can teach us about the brain
The engagement of the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist scholars and practitioners with Western science has opened doors into the mind's inner workings and to new interest in 'poetic perception', writes...
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Does your VLE virtually undress its users?
Few educators are aware of how online learning tools can betray the privacy of individual users and stifle their learning experience, says Adam Joinson. In August, three leading employees of the...
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Cheese parties, without the wine
Negotiate the minefield of local customs and you can gain personal and professional benefits from teaching abroad, finds Anthea Lipsett. When Diana Leonard signed up to teach at Fatima Jinnah Women...
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Female students outnumber men across the board Female university students now outnumber men across all subject areas, from engineering to medicine and law to physical sciences. New figures from...
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EU project to widen access to European research information
Brussels, 13 Sep 2006 A new EU-funded project will lay the foundations of a large-scale, pan-European public infrastructure for research information. Open-access to research information is vital for...
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Cyclists wearing helmets at greater risk: car drivers keep their distance from bare-headed cyclists, especially if they're women
Brussels, 13 Sep 2006 New research from the UK suggests that drivers give cyclists without helmets a wider berth compared to their helmeted counterparts. The closer a driver is to the cyclist, the...
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EU project develops diagnostic kit to fight infantile diarrhoea in developing countries
Brussels, 13 Sep 2006 An EU funded project has come up with a diagnostic kit for the two most severe forms of infantile diarrhoea in the developing world - enteropathogenic E.coli (EPEC) and Shigella...
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Draft China Patent Provisions on Genetic Resource Inventions (extract)
13 Sep 2006 The proposed amendments to China's patent law include two new provisions that would impose additional disclosure obligations for genetic resource inventions. These provisions would...
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A broad–based innovation strategy for the European Union: Commission calls for action at national and European levels
Brussels, 13th September 2006 Today, the European Commission has tabled a 10 point programme for action at national and European levels to foster innovation as a main asset of the EU economy. This...
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Ten priority actions to achieve a broad-based innovation strategy for the European Union.
Brussels, 13th September 2006 The aim of the Communication is to present “a broad based innovation strategy for Europe that translates investments in knowledge into innovative products and...
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Revised Report on the Proposed Council Decision Concerning the Placing on the Market of GMO Oilseed Rape Products (Brassica Napus L., Lines Ms8, Rf3 and Ms8xrf3) (extract)
Brussels, 13 Sep 2006 Full text of Document 12628/1/06 Revision 01 Suite of documents 12628/1/06 No. Cion prop.: 11640/06 Subject: Proposal for a Council Decision concerning the placing on the market...