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Ernest Drucker emphasises the possible role of unsterile injections in the emergence of Aids (Features, THES , March 15). But even sterile injections can be dangerous. Injections in the buttock...
Ernest Drucker emphasises the possible role of unsterile injections in the emergence of Aids (Features, THES , March 15). But even sterile injections can be dangerous. Injections in the buttock...
In "Laughing all the way to the Left Bank" (Features, THES , March 8), we learn of two Cambridge academics who have bought flats in Paris because they were unable to afford properties in Cambridge....
Gremlins got at my letter ( THES , March 15). Noam Chomsky's view that, at a deep level, thought determines language (not vice versa) is not now discredited, as Michael Bulley says ( THES , February...
The real question about your report "QAA report fingers FE" (THES, March 15) is "who doesn't try to finger FE?" The sector's problem has been its naivety in getting on with the job rather than...
Andy Smith and Mike Eysenck's study of citation counts in psychology departments is problematic (Letters, THES , March 1). The citations Smith and Eysenck sent me to check assumed that researchers...
In view of recent revelations of supposedly independent commentators receiving massive retainers from, for example, the tobacco industry, you should require from your contributors statements of...
Brussels, 20 March 2002 The UK is intending to safeguard its cutting edge inventions with the launch of a new guide, 'Managing intellectual property'. The guide provides strategic advice to...
Brussels, 20 March 2002 The UK is set to back the proposed release of 3.6 million euro of EU funding for the Galileo satellite navigation project. The move signals a significant move from Britain,...
Paris, 20 March 2002 "Space can do a lot for European citizens. Our global satellite navigation system Galileo is now only a step away from taking wing and fly high", said Antonio Rodotà, the...
Brussels, 20 March 2002 Invitation to submit expressions of interest - An opportunity for Europe's research community to help prepare for the first calls of FP6 - Identifier: (EOI.FP6.2002) (OJ C71/...
Brussels, 20 March 2002 Geel (BE): IRMM has performed measurements on 210Pb in dried lung tissue samples in collaboration with the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, Germany. 210Pb is a...
Brussels, 20 March 2002 Karlsruhe (DE): In a workshop organised at ITU end of January 2002 participants from Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria came to review the current status of co-operation and...
Brussels, 20 March 2002 3rd Session of Codex Task Force on Biotechnology (Yokohama (Japan), 4-8 March 2002) - summary report. Note from the General Secretariat to the Codex Alimentarius Working Party...
Brussels, 20 March 2002 Latest figures for broadband access show a healthy rise in the number of people taking up the facility, but research indicates that Internet users are still unwilling to pay...
Brussels, 20 March 2002 IRMM produces 41Ca reference material to combat Osteoporosis Geel (BE): At IRMM in Geel a set of calcium isotopic reference materials has been produced as part of a study on...