Brussels, 18 Dec 2003 A new UK based charity has brought together scientists, pharmaceutical companies, intellectual property (IP) experts and governments from around the world to find innovative...
Brussels, 18 Dec 2003 The UK's particle physics and astronomy research council (PPARC) has announced funding of 22.74 million euro for a massive computing grid, to be known as GridPP2. The computer...
Brussels, 18 Dec 2003 The ninth international human genome meeting, HGM2004, will be held from 4 to 7 April 2004 in Berlin, Germany. The event is specifically designed to update and increase the...
Geneva, 18 Dec 2003 Full text SUMMARY 1. This document provides updated information on various steps under way to facilitate the participation of indigenous and local communities in the work of WIPO...
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This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a fiction by an extremely versatile and prolific writer: "It was about the beginning of September 1664...
A large-scale international study (the World Values Survey ), just published, compares Arab attitudes towards good governance with those in other parts of the world. Arab countries express the...
The English Judges