Don't send in the tanks
Using the Army to deter animal activists will not win over public opinion, says Bill Durodié. The Prime Minister has sanctioned deployment of the Army to protect the Pounds 18 million biomedical...
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No case for unequal treatment
Why do degree-awarding powers differ for the public and private sector? asks Geoffrey Alderman. Later this year the Government will implement new criteria for conferring degree-awarding powers. The...
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Today's news
Oh Mum! Please don’t come with me to university Parents are getting more involved in every aspect of students' lives, from attending open days to sitting in on their lectures and interviews,...
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W3C and Open Mobile Alliance Announce MoU, W3C Calls for Participation in Workshop on the "Semantic Web for Life Sciences"
29 Jul 2004 W3C and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Establish Formal Relationship W3C and the Open Mobile Alliance ( OMA ) today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) enabling their cooperation on...
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Modified Foods Should be Judged Case-by-Case, Scientists Say
Brussels, 29 Jul 2004 Foods that have been significantly modified by genetic engineering or any other method should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis before being made available commercially,...
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Pharmaceutical giants establish fund for animal research
Brussels, 29 Jul 2004 Responding to the increasingly aggressive stance of UK animal rights campaigners, the three largest pharmaceutical companies with research facilities in the UK, Astra Zaneca,...
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New IST project aims to put Europe at forefront of e-Health
Brussels, 29 Jul 2004 The European Commission is providing 6.4 million euro to a new Network of Excellence under the Information Society Technologies (IST) priority of the Sixth Framework Programme (...
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SYNTHESYS integrated infrastructure initiative invites proposals for access grants
Brussels, 29 Jul 2004 SYNTHESYS, an integrated infrastructure initiative involving 20 of Europe's most prestigious natural history institutions and funded under the research infrastructures priority...
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Scientific summaries on chemical substances - call for tenders
Brussels, 29 Jul 2004 The European Commission has published a call for tenders for the provision of services for the drawing up of scientific summaries for the scientific committee for occupational...
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ESA Astronaut on UNICEF mission to Darfur
Paris, 29 Jul 2004 ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador since January 2003, and the Director General of UNICEF Belgium, Christian Wiener, will leave on 31 July for a short...
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Dossier of dirty deeds
Global Corruption Report 2004
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A short 100 years of long weeks
The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century
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First Impressions
WIN SIX BOTTLES OF WINE This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the first great English novel about the class war: "The house was named 'The...
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Old maids on bikes and bollocks on stilts
History in Quotations
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It's bad, but can it be banned?
War No More