Washington, Jan 2006 A preliminary decision by a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel on the U.S. challenge of the European Union (EU) moratorium on approvals for crops derived from biotechnology is...
Paris, Jan 2006 Animated diagram of leaf area index An ambitious ESA project to chart ten years in the life of the Earth's vegetation has reached a midway point, with participants and end-users...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 203/06 Suite of documents 203/06 Delegations will find attached a proposal from the COST Office on the "Open Call and Selection Criteria for new COST Actions...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 204/06 Suite of documents 204/06 To: COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) Subject: JAF meeting 15/16 February 2006, agenda item 10 - A new COST Instrument...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 5/1/05 Revision 01 Suite of documents 5/1/05 Subject: Participation of non-COST countries and International/European bodies in COST Actions Delegations will...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 312/05 Addendum 01 Suite of documents 312/05 Item 15, Any Other Business, p. 8: "The Group agreed to the intention of the Austrian representative, Dr Mieling...
Man questioned over murder of cot death researcher Detectives were yesterday questioning a man over the murder of a scientist who was found stabbed 49 times and strangled with her own sweater at her...
De La Mettrie's Ghost
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an epistolary novel by a much-televised writer: "My dear brother, I can no longer refuse myself the...
The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia - Mozart - Mozart and His Operas
Chaplin and Agee
Joined-Up Government
A Matter of Principle
Urgent action is required to avert a crisis in the UK's social sciences, according to a major report that reveals for the first time the full extent of staffing problems in the field. The report, due...
Stuck-up, disorganised and unclean, with terrible dress sense and illegible handwriting. This is how lecturers are summed up in the responses to a poll that asked university students: "What really...