Employment picture is not pretty
'Go where jobs are' For Mark Waterman , a 33-year-old second-year nursing student at Coventry University, the lecturers' strike is taking a back seat concerns about the possible jobs situation in the...
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Are you and your computer more than just good friends?
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world. For some, the internet is an addiction. Others feel their computer is out to get them. What drives an internet addict and...
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Conference watch
What is the relationship between science fiction and science fact? The Cheltenham Science Festival will explore the "first popular science writing". Papers include one on the earliest works of...
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Marina warner
Why are we obsessed with others' lives - especially when they resemble freak shows? Sean Coughlan finds out. We've all seen their faces in bookshops - big colour close-ups or moody black and white -...
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Space Policy (Extract from Commission press release on the Competitiveness Council of 29-30 May 2006)
Brussels, 31 May 2006 The Commission gave a progress report on the development of the European Space Policy and road map. For the preparation of the European Space Policy and related Programme (ESP...
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Agenda of the Working Party on Agricultural Questions (Seeds and Propagating Material), 7 June 2006
Brussels, 31 May 2006 Full text of Document 1957/06 1. Examination of the proposal for a Council Decision on the equivalence of the official examination of varieties carried out in Croatia. - Doc....
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Antarctic Funding Initiative
Deadline: 31/07/2006
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Joint Research Groups
Deadline: 31/08/2006
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Beam Time for Macromolecular Crystallography
Deadline: 01/09/2006
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Hodson Fund
Deadline: 01/09/2006
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Physiological networks
Deadline: 31/07/2006
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Latest research news
Fewer, larger radiation doses may help fight breast cancer Giving women fewer but large doses of radiotherapy may be just as effective at cutting the risk of breast cancer returning as more smaller...
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Action brought by Ireland under UN Convention on the Law of the Sea against UK over Sellafield nuclear recycling activity was unlawful because Convention falls within EU jurisdiction to the exclusion
Luxembourg, 30 May 2006 C-459/03, Commission of the European Communities v. Ireland Judgment of the Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) on 30 May 2006 (link to English version when available). Full text...
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Patent systems must be grounded in reality not theory, says Commission
Brussels, 30 May 2006 Director of Innovation Policy at the European Commission's Enterprise DG, David White, has called for greater efforts by national governments and EU institutions to help...
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7th Research Framework Programme - EC and Euratom, rules for participation: Competitiveness Council, 29-30 May
Brussels, 30 May 2006 31st Council Meeting - Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry and Research). Brussels, 29-30 May 2006 Provisional version The Council reached an agreement on a general...