SMART-1 views Europe
Paris, 17 Jun 2004 Photographs The first picture of Earth taken by the SMART-1 spacecraft on 21 May 2004 from a distance of 70 000 kilometres. The image shows from top left, Scandinavia, Denmark,...
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ESA and EADS-CASA sign contract to build instrument for the SMOS mission
Paris, 17 Jun 2004 A significant milestone in the development of ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission was reached last week when the contract to build the payload was signed between...
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USAID Fact Sheet on Assessing Biotech Crops for Safety (plus links to other fact sheets on biotec crops)
Washington, 17 Jun 2004 HOW ARE BIOTECH CROPS AND FOODS ASSESSED FOR SAFETY? Commercially available foods and crops made using biotechnology have been subjected to more testing and regulation than...
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Lowest morals, highest office
American Dynasty - House of Bush, House of Saud - The Sorrows of Empire
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Few fruits of seedling
Shyam Benegal
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Thesp's mastery of anger and mad monarchs
Nigel Hawthorne on Stage
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The chimps fight culture wars, too
Animal Social Complexity
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Canonical texts that resonate with the echoes of tongues
Literary Cultures in History
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A secret history woven in hair
Etruscan Dress
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Soul mates, not bed fellows
The Friend
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First shots of China's new wave
Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy
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All the threads of life united on one loom
Woven Stories
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Post-genomic possibilities
Nature Encyclopedia of the Human Genome
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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 novel for both adults and children: "'Tell us a story, Dandelion!'" The winner receives a half-case...
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Ta, I'll just go buy that braying ass
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages