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CRAZY: The UK number one single by Gnarls Barkley The conventional wisdom is that if the pop charts ever mattered, they don't anymore. They no longer serve as a barometer of the taste and cultural...
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Losing capital over IQ levels
Ulster University's Richard Lynn continues to alienate much of the human race with his controversial theories on IQ. This time he has hurt Bulgarians' pride by ranking them 19th (equal with France...
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Scots and Welsh left in the cold
The Treasury's sudden foray into research funding policy continues to antagonise those in charge of higher education budgets. The Welsh and Scottish funding chiefs expressed their disquiet at the...
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Reid's Parisian eyeful tour
Who said academics were not proud of the size of their endowments? In an unusually frank profile of Stuart Reid, Glasgow University's dean of veterinary medicine, in the university's newsletter, Dr...
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Academic ship is listing badly
Tsk, tsk. One in ten books that academics recommend to their students is out of date or out of print, according to the new website Booksofcourse.com. The company found that 10 per cent of the 2,137...
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Enlisting Darwin in the bird flu debate
The panic over H5N1 reveals that even experts are failing to grasp how natural selection works. Paul Ewald breaks the good news. The general public are not the only ones confused about the threat...
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Tug of war over the last man who knew it all
Both Left and Right claim visionary Adam Smith for their cause. James Buchan suggests they read his works first. In the transfer of knowledge from the specialist to the public, or from the academy to...
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Re-use of Commission information (OJ link)
Brussels, 20 April 2006 Commission Decision of 7 April 2006 on the re-use of Commission information (OJ L107/38 20.4.2006). Full text (1) The new information and communication technologies have...
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Biotech medicines: first biosimilar drug on EU market
Brussels, 20 April 2006 Two decades after the first drugs produced by biotechnological means (as opposed to “normal” chemical pharmaceuticals) arrived on the EU market, a. number...
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AmCham EU position letter on Biometrics (link)
Brussels, 20 Apr 2006 Dear, Ensuring the development of more secure travel documents has been an integral part of preventing illegal immigration and combating serious organised crime on the one hand...
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Draft Report on the proposal for a Council decision on the specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the 7th Framework Programme (2007-2013) (link)
Brussels, 20 Apr 2006 PROVISIONAL 2005/0186(CNS) 4.4.2006 * DRAFT REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision on the specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the 7th Framework Programme (2007-2013...
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Draft Report on the proposed Council decision concerning the Specific Programme to be carried out by means of direct actions by the Joint Research Centre implementing the 7th Framework Programme (link
Brussels, 20 Apr 2006 PROVISIONAL 2005/0189(CNS) 31.3.2006 * DRAFT REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision concerning the Specific Programme to be carried out by means of direct actions by the...
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EU moves into wind, Germany leads world in Photovoltaic, Italians harness the sea
Brussels, 20 Apr 2006 Renewable sources of energy remain a priority for ongoing European research and development. One of the EU's many activities in this field is the funding of a new Integrated...
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Researchers find genetic cause of Alzheimer's disease
Brussels, 20 Apr 2006 Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and Antwerp University in Belgium have found that the quantity of amyloid protein in brain cells...
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Researchers appeal for help in fight against bluetongue
Brussels, 20 Apr 2006 British scientists investigating bluetongue disease have appealed for regional farmers to help them in their quest for new ways to track the disease. Bluetongue is a virus...