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Clarke backs 'fairer' university entry idea The Government will tomorrow support a radical shake-up of outdated university admissions, backing proposals for students to submit their applications...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party, 13 September
Brussels, 10 Sep 2004 Full text of Document 3179/04 1. European RTD Policy: - Communication from the Commission responding to the recommendations of the panel of experts concerning the new...
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Table of genetically modified food pending authorisation in the European Union (link)
Brussels, 10 Sep 2004 Full text Health and Consumer Protection DG
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DEFRA organises seminar on FP6 funding in Global Change and Ecosystems
Brussels, 10 Sep 2004 On 4 October 2004, the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) will be holding a seminar on participating in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) in the...
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The integration of knowledge, semantics and digital media technology
Brussels, 10 Sep 2004 A workshop on the integration of knowledge, semantics and digital media technology will take place in London, the UK, on 25 and 26 November. The event is co-sponsored by the...
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Commission outlines next steps for security research
Brussels, 10 Sep 2004 The European Commission has outlined the next steps that it intends to take towards establishing an EU programme for security research in a communication to the other EU...
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Commission responds to recommendations on FP6 instruments
Brussels, 10 Sep 2004 The European Commission has responded to the recommendations of the high level panel of experts, led by Ramon Marimon, on the new instruments of the Sixth Framework Programme (...
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Evaluating progress towards an ERA for IST - call for tenders
Brussels, 10 Sep 2004 The European Commission has published a call for tenders for the evaluation of progress towards a European Research Area (ERA) for information society technologies (IST). The...
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'Recognition of Traditional Knowledge within the Patent System' and other documents prepared by WIPO for the November Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Re
Geneva, 10 Sep 2004 I. OVERVIEW 1. The Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore ("the Committee") has developed several defensive...
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Unrestricted Public Access to Pathogen Genome Data Should Continue, says U.S. National Academies of Science (link)
Washington, September 9, 2004 Current policies that allow scientists and the public unrestricted access to genome data on microbial pathogens should not be changed, says a new report from the...
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Downing St after the disco years
Britain since the Seventies
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Inner-eye exploration
The Quest for Consciousness
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the story of a doomed marriage: "In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already...
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Kaleidoscopic view of our common past
The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914