Iron rice bowl left behind in race to market
China's Economic Transformation. Second Edition
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Workshops on Pre-Commercial Procurement of Innovation -- 21-28 June, Brussels
Brussels, 16 Jun 2006 What is Pre-Commercial Procurement of Innovation? Pre-commercial procurement focuses on products and services which are not yet available on the market, for which a certain...
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On her majesty's secret disservice
To combat terror, intelligence services need good research. But US calls to help with a situation in the Sahara-Sahel led Jeremy Keenan to believe academics were being used to support illegal and...
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Sceptics blinded by Marxist idols and ideology
Communism's allure saw otherwise intelligent members of the academy jettisoning reason, argues Robert Service Communism had a worldwide impact on intellectuals after the October Revolution of 1917 -...
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Global developments mean Anglophone insularity needs to be tackled
Galina Yemelianova , a Russian specialist in Arabic and Islamic studies at Birmingham University, may speak six languages but she cannot persuade her children to follow her example. "I try to get...
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Why revel in birth of imperial monster?
Celebrating 'America's 400th Birthday' ignores the genocide of the continent's native people, argues Taiaiake Alfred "America's 400th Birthday", the year-long staging of the mythologies of...
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Invaluable resource or stolen property?
The repatriation of the remains of 17 Tasmanian Aborigines by the Natural History Museum highlights an unresolved conflict between scientific and cultural obligations. Julia Hinde reports In May this...
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Images of the edge of survival
Tribal Asia
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Report warns Europe over lack of patents, while EPO workers strike over increased workload
Brussels, 10 May 2006 A new report warns that Europe is in danger of 'missing the boat' on commercial returns of nanotechnology, as the number of patent applications remain way below those from the...
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Commission's 20 October update on avian influenza
Brussels, 24 October 2006 Full text of Document 14307/06 Suite of documents 14307/06 Brussels, 23 October NOTE from Commission to Council Subject: Written Information from the Commission on Avian...
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Besieged staff attack 'bullying' closure plans
A senior academic at Cambridge University has claimed staff were "bullied, demeaned and lied to" during a review of their department, writes Rebecca Attwood. Members of the faculty of Oriental...
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New venture reaches out to Eastern Europe
It is more than 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet empire, but the need to understand developments in Central and Eastern Europe remains. The Centre for East European Language Based Area...
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In becoming a eunuch, I became a better man
The once exalted status of castrati helped Richard Wassersug accept the changes caused by his cancer treatment My daughter and I were talking about outing oneself - the act of disclosing one's inner...
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UK told to wake up to Asian links
British universities must not treat Asian students as "cash cows", a think-tank warned this week, saying that the good reputation of UK higher education is at stake. In a report on the challenges...
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A quiet tendency to spread the word
The relationship between politics and religion will take centre stage at this year's Anglo-American Conference of Historians, University of London, July 5 to 7 The global community of evangelical...