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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Commission official has claimed the European Research Area’s goal of coordinating EU scientists has been achieved for nuclear science. Brussels’ nuclear fission and radiation protection unit head Hans Forsström claimed this cooperation had already been forged through Euratom.…

BY PHILIP FINE

NAT DiBuduo is finally getting calls from buyers after four years as president of Allied Grape Growers, a California grape marketing cooperative. Those calls, along with a few other factors, are providing signs that the slump California’s wine industry has been experiencing in the last three years is coming to an end.…

BY PHILIP FINE

OBESITY is costing America US$75 billion (GBPounds 41.4 billion) a year in medical treatments, a recent study has found. According to researchers at RTI International and the US Centers for Disease Control, the estimated percentage of annual health expenditures in each state attributable to obesity ranges from four per cent in Arizona to 6.7 percent in Alaska.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN organisations representing retailers and apparel importers have released a study claiming that the impending January 2005 demise of the country’s clothing import quotas was a "well founded" proposition. The report was commissioned by the US Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel, the American Apparel & Footwear Association, the American Import Shippers Association, the National Retail Federation and the International Mass Retail Association.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of countries have formed a network of excellence developing expertise in the deep underground storage of radioactive waste. Coordinated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, participants include Belgium’s Hades Underground Research Facility in Mol; Canada’s Underground Research Laboratory of Lac-du-Bonnet, Manitoba; Switzerland’s Grimsel Test Site and Mont-Terri Underground Research Laboratory; Britain’s Geo-Environmental Research Centre, Cardiff; and the USA’s WIPP facility, New Mexico, the Yucca Mountain Project, Nevada, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, San Francisco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STENCH from liquid waste is rarely pleasant, especially for nearby residential areas, so technology from a European Union (EU) funded project will be welcome, if its developers deliver a claim it can reduce such disgusting odours by 95 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has developed plans to lend Norway’s Statoil Euro 200 million to help it develop the North Sea Ormen Lange gas field as a key supplier of natural gas to Britain, which should become a net importer of natural gas from 2007.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research consortium is testing an automatic accident alert system helping drivers motoring in a foreign country raise emergency services following an accident, reducing the risk they might die or suffer serious harm. The system would help motorists who may not know where to call for assistance and may not speak the language used by nearby police, ambulance services and fire fighters.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NEW research indicates that the Amish have an obesity rate of only 4 per cent despite a diet heavy in meat.

The study said the religious group that shuns technology, stays trim because of high levels of daily activity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s troubled statistical agency Eurostat is planning an increase the amount of work tackled in house rather than buying in research from outside contractors, the strategy leading to the ongoing accounting scandal. Eurostat director Michel Vanden Abeele told EU news wire Eupolitix: “We need to tighten our belt.…