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Global Navigation Satellite System - Galileo (Extract from: Provisional Version, Transport Council, 10 December and Presidency press conference)
Brussels, 10 Dec 2004 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council: Moving to the deployment and operational phase of the European satellite radionavigation programme...
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GALILEO on the home straight
Brussels, 10 December 2004 GALILEO will definitely become operational in 2008: a decisive stage has just been completed which will allow the GALILEO programme to be fully completed, despite the...
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Consultation document on a framework Programme for Competitiveness and Innovation - Comments by 7 Feb 2005 (links)
Brussels, 10 Dec 2004 1. Purpose of the consultation Europe is currently reviewing its policies and support mechanisms to better be able to promote competitiveness and innovation with the ultimate...
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EU identifies top performers in industrial R&D
Brussels, 10 December 2004 The top 500 companies in the EU invested a total of €100b in Research and Development during 2003. But investment in 2003 was lower than in 2002, and non-EU companies are...
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EU needs to increase the take-up and deployment of ICT across society, says Council
Brussels, 10 Dec 2004 The importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) must be recognised in the coming proposal for the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), says the European...
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United States, United Kingdom Sign Science and Technology Pact
Washington, 10 Dec 2004 Joint Statement by U. K. Home Secretary David Blunkett and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary James Loy on U.K. - U.S. Science and Technology Agreement...
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Awards and protests highlight opposing views of nanotechnology
Brussels, 10 Dec 2004 On the same day that the German government allocated million euro in prize money to young researchers working in nanotechnology, protesters disrupted a nanotechnology business...
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The future of the knowledge society
Brussels, 10 Dec 2004 The Club of Amsterdam is organising an international conference 'The Summit for the Future 2005' to be held from 26 to 28 January in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The aim of the...
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Commission publishes NEST calls for proposals
Brussels, 10 Dec 2004 The European Commission has published a call under the New and Emerging Science and Technology (NEST) section of the Sixth Framework Programme's 'Anticipating scientific and...
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Today's news
Children could quit school for a trade at 14 Children will be able to quit school for good at 14 and learn a trade under a planned government shake-up of the education system. Instead of school, they...
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Bible for the Big Bang generation
Big Bang
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A man who loved liberty and the law
A Life of H. L. A. Hart
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The 'quick-footed menace' that was really a 'plodding nuisance'
The Life and Death of Smallpox
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Great theory, but not divine
Dawkins' God