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Lecturers attend talks but strike still looms Lecturers' unions today meet their university employers for a crunch meeting on pay - but they have already given notice of a strike ballot before...
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Commission Agenda Entry: Thursday, 12 January: Innovation scoreboard
Brussels, 06 Jan 2006 The news: The fifth edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) will assess the key dimensions of innovation: knowledge, creation, entrepreneurship, applications, and...
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Bacterial gum infection identified as bar to antibiotic prevention of heart attack
Brussels, 06 Jan 2006 Researchers in Finland have found that patients with periodontitis (severe bacterial gum infection) do not benefit from antibiotic treatment for heart attacks. This is the first...
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LIFT 2006 - New Technologies Combine with Big Ideas and Elegant Science
Brussels, 06 Jan 2006 LIFT, a conference exploring the applications of new technologies, will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 2 and 3. The goal of the conference is to bring together...
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Novel feed trials prevent methane production in livestock
Brussels, 06 Jan 2006 The Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, UK, has devised a method which is hoped will reduce methane emissions in cows and other animals. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas...
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Bats critical in transmission of Ebola
Brussels, 06 Jan 2006 Researchers from the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in Paris (IRD) have identified a carrier for the Ebola (haemorrhagic fever) virus - bats. The...
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Today's news
Applications to university will fall as fees rise, minister admits University applications are likely to fall for the first time in eight years after the introduction of increased tuition fees, the...
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A sister's struggle in the film fraternity
To Be a Woman
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On the front line of truth about war
The Official History of the Falklands Campaign - The Official History of the Falklands Campaign
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Mysterious origins of African who charmed Russian court
Gannibal - The Moor of St Petersburg
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Fishing for a man with a golden limb
Pythagoras
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Irrigating the channels of democracy
The Classical World
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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 work by a novelist: "Victoria Sackville-West was thirty when she went into labour for the first and...
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Faults left inheritors of Caesar to turn barbarian
The Fall of the Roman Empire