Travels in time put flesh on forebears
To comprehend the lives of the early humans who laid the foundations of civilisations, Steven Mithen sent a fictional observer to visit them Late one afternoon last October, I climbed a hill in...
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Life proved colourful in forgotten kingdoms
Silken Threads Lacquer Thrones
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Canada cashes in as US toughens up visa policies
Increased restrictions on foreign students in the US may have boosted international student numbers in Canada by more than 15 per cent. The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada has said...
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Canada cashes in as US toughens up visa policies
Increased restrictions on foreign students in the US may have boosted international student numbers in Canada by more than 15 per cent. The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada has said...
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All threads of a global tapestry
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Stavros Dimas Member of the European Commission responsible for EnvironmentEarth Observation Matters The 3rd Earth Observation Summit
Brussels, 16 February 2005 Ministers, Ladies and Gentlemen, Earth Observation matters to the international community. This is clear from the number of countries and organisations represented here....
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Middlesex wins enterprise award Middlesex University has today won the Queen's award for enterprise, in recognition of its recruiting a high number of overseas students. It boosted overseas student...
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GIS system to monitor how clean Europe's coasts are
Brussels, 11 Jan 2005 While clean-up teams survey the damage and lost lives caused by the Asian tsunami over Christmas, attention will soon turn to the environmental damage to the region's coasts....
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ESA service makes customised maps available to African aid workers
Paris, 30 Nov 2004 The map is not the territory, runs the famous quote, but maps do represent an unparalleled tool for emergency management. Nobody knows this better than humanitarian organisations...
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Burglar, ghost, fiend, poet, drunk and hero
William Empson
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The fair and the fowl
A researcher working on a global health issue at a top institution on a five-year contract should feel secure. But Ruth Harvey, who is investigating avian flu, tells Anna Fazackerley that the...
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Making the future with nanoelectronics: a strategy for Europe
Brussels, 29 June 2004 To become the world’s most competitive powerhouse, Europe must lead the transition of the micro-electronics sector to the next generation of nano-electronics, with co-ordinated...
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UCL marks 30 years of e-networking
The UK's first electronic messages were full of complaints about unexpected delays, writes Steve Farrar. Yet the bouts of lethargy that would suddenly afflict the net when Peter Kirstein was trying...
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UCL marks 30 years of e-networking
The UK's first electronic messages were full of complaints about unexpected delays, writes Steve Farrar. Yet the bouts of lethargy that would suddenly afflict the net when Peter Kirstein was trying...
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Ottawa
Canada's police complaints commission has urged the Mounties to apologise to student protesters for "inappropriate actions" at a Vancouver meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...