Cross address
(Photograph) - Cross address: comedian Eddie Izzard has backed students and staff fighting plans to close the University of East Anglia's languages and drama departments. Mr Izzard, who holds an...
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Chair is wheelie good to talk to
It will talk to you when you are feeling down, wheel you where you need to go and even contact your family if you need a hand. This is researchers' vision for "RoboChair" - a blueprint for an...
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Appointments
* The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils has announced the following management changes: Hywel Price is now director of CCLRC operations; Colin Whitehouse is now director of...
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CEN to Start a Biometrics Focus Group
Brussels, 20 May 2004 Biometrics is becoming increasingly important in today's society. Examples are the requirement for biometric identification mechanisms on travel documents and the use in...
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Agenda of the Meeting of Transport Attachés Intermodal Questions and Networks, 27 May
Brussels, 20 May 2004 Full text of Document 2081/04 1. GALILEO ­ Proposal for a Council Decision on the signing of the Agreement between the European Community and the United States of...
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Possible answers to a plaguing question
Brussels, 20 May 2004 A Soviet-era research centre may hold the key to why bubonic plague has never been stamped out. Thanks to EU and international support, four decades of data is being converted...
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Space takes centre stage at Berlin Air Show 2004
Brussels, 20 May 2004 The theme of this year's space exhibit at the Berlin Air Show was 'Space for life'. Presented jointly by the European Space Agency (ESA), the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and...
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FP6 Model Contracts: Mono contractor, Core Contract, Cooperation Grant (links)
Brussels, 20 May 2004 core contract - Mono contractor ( 38 kB) core contract Grant for cooperation with Third Countries Table of special clauses DG Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i...
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Revised Agenda of the 159th meeting of the COST Senior Officials Committee, 27-28 May (link)
Brussels, 20 May 2004 Full text of Document 1931/1/04 Revision 01 Council Register
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Working Methods for JAF Group and Procedure for Appointing Its Members (link)
Brussels, 20 May 2004 Full text of Document 304/3/03 Revision 03 Suite of documents 304/3/03 Subject: Working Methods for JAF Group and Procedure for appointing its Members Delegations will find...
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Beagle 2: lessons learned and the way forward
Paris, 20 May 2004 The Commission of Inquiry on Beagle 2, jointly set up in February between ESA and the British National Space Centre (BNSC), has recently concluded its investigations. A joint ESA/...
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Today's news
University a distant dream for poorest University is as distant as Pluto for many youngsters on Merseyside's poorest estates, Alan Johnson, the minister for further and higher education, said...
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Guilty men who missed the cross-channel ferry
Britain and Europe since 1945
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a biographer of the Victorians: "On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the...
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By bullet and Buddhism
Making Enemies