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Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
Paris, 02 Mar 2004 On the last night of February 2002 ESA's Envisat - the largest and most sophisticated Earth Observation spacecraft ever built - swapped the tropical atmosphere of French Guiana for...
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Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
Paris, 02 Mar 2004 On the last night of February 2002 ESA's Envisat - the largest and most sophisticated Earth Observation spacecraft ever built - swapped the tropical atmosphere of French Guiana for...
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Romano Prodi: Erasmus World Press Conference, Brussels, 17 July 2002
Brussels, 17 July 2002 Today the Commission adopted Erasmus World on a proposal from Viviane. There is a simple philosophy behind the project: "By opening our universities to the world, we open them...
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Fat fingers, juicy pies and Uncle Sam's sorely embarrassing not-so little problem
The Future of Freedom
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Today's news
Blue-chip talent to help poor schools Britain鈥檚 brightest graduates are to be invited to spend two years鈥 鈥渘ational service鈥 teaching in London鈥檚 roughest schools before heading off to lucrative jobs...
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Iron fists in velvet gloves
Progress and tradition could go hand in hand in China but only if reformists will let them, Wang Gungwu argues. The Indian regional elections went well for the Congress Party in November, but perhaps...
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Educated guess about social gain
Education and Development
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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
With 97 million people expected in higher education by 2010, universities worldwide are moving into South America, China and the Gulf in an attempt to bag the new recruits first, says Tony Tysome...
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Falling fortunes of the lands of the rising sun
The Great Divergence
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Helping the world to breathe more easily
In the battle against climate change, good intentions are not enough. Lobbyists must become more Machiavellian. Fred Pearce reports. Know your enemy." It has been Paul Harris's motto as United States...
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Germans skip UK for Australia
British universities are losing foreign students to their Australian counterparts as Germans choose increasingly to go Down Under to study, improve their English and get a suntan into the bargain....
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Students urged to go abroad
THENUMBER of young Australians working and studying in the Asia-Pacific region will rise significantly if initiatives gaining support are successful. Powerful voices have spoken out over the past...
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Eyewitness: Moscow fears over Cyrillic script switch
Tatarstan, a semi-autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, is preparing to switch the script used for the Tatar language from Cyrillic to the Turkish variant of the Latin alphabet. Next month,...
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We don't lack skill -just political will
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...