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"I/A" Item Note: Adoption of a Council Decision on a Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement with Egypt (link)
Brussels, 14 Jan 2005 Full text of Document 5249/05 Suite of documents 5249/05 No. Cion prop.: 16067/04 RECH 263 EG 12 - COM(2004) 464 final Subject: Adoption of a Council Decision concerning the...
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EU project presents Roboclimber
Brussels, 14 Jan 2005 A robot able to prevent landslides, whose development involved funding from both the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), has been tested successfully in...
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Images from Titan - Taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe During Successful Descent (link)
Paris, 14 Jan 2005 Images on ESA website Images on NASA website This image was returned January 14, 2005, by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan....
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Nanotechnologies and volatile organic compounds
Brussels, 14 Jan 2005 An international symposium on 'Application of nanotechnologies for separation and recovery of volatile organic compounds from waste air streams' (ANVOC) will be held in Istanbul...
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EU project aims to increase SME participation in FP6
Brussels, 14 Jan 2005 The European Commission is funding a project aimed at increasing the number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) participating in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) FP6...
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Austria improves conditions for women scientists and students
Brussels, 14 Jan 2005 The Austrian government has launched processes to assist both women in science and university students. The 'professorinnen x2' programme aims to increase the number of women...
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NEST-IDEA launches survey
Brussels, 14 Jan 2005 The NEST-IDEA project, funded by the European Commission as a Specific Support Action (SSA) within the NEST (New and Emerging Science and Technology) activity, has launched a...
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European University Institute is not an EU body to which Ombudsman's powers extend, and powers could not be created by agreement (link)
Strasbourg, 14 January 2005 Decision of the European Ombudsman on complaint 2225/2003/(ADB)PB against the European University Institute. Strasbourg, 15 December 2004 Full text Complaint concerning...
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U.S., European Space Mission to Study Supermassive Black Holes: Spying on Black-Hole Eating Habits with LISA
Washington, 14 Jan 2005 Pennsylvania State University Press release, January 13. 2005 [University Park, Pennsylvania] 13 January 2005 â€" As big fish eat little fish in the Earth's vast oceans, so...
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Ever so plane and beautiful
M. C. Escher
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A life devoted to the Buddha
Moving against the Stream
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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 Jewish Nobel laureate's novel about life in Eastern Europe after the First World War: "On the eve of...
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Perspective distorted by cloistered views
A Century of Theological and Religious Studies in Britain, 1902-2002
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'Revolution'. See 'Reference book'
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