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BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEUROTICS and introverts often find it harder to quit smoking than extroverted happy people, according to research from the University of Warwick, England. It suggests that improving the social skills of these smokers may be more effective as an anti-smoking aid than a nicotine patch.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission-funded research project has claimed that further reforms are required to the EU’s live exports legislation, concluding that stressful transport conditions are not only posing problems to animal welfare but also to meat quality and consumer perceptions of the industry.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WHAT a complex and mysterious thing wheat is! Scientists tell us that modern wheat is a hexaploid, which means that the long-distant ancestors of wheat “hybridised in a way that combined three copies of the original genome to produce a genome with over 150,000 genes.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from a consortium of high ranking European research teams has predicted that the world’s efforts to prevent greenhouse gas emissions are doomed to failure, even while the European Commission strives to force EU Member States to meet their Kyoto commitments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEUROTICS and introverts often find it harder to quit smoking than extroverted happy people, according to research from the University of Warwick, England. It suggests that improving the social skills of these smokers may be more effective as an anti-smoking aid than a nicotine patch.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INSURANCE companies have been asked to subscribe to a European Road Safety Charter, committing them to back measures reducing road accidents. The move is part of a seven-year plan to improve road safety in the European Union that has been launched by the European Commission; it aims to halve the number of people killed in road accidents annually across the EU from 40,000 to 20,000 by 2010.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US House of Representatives has put Alaska drilling back into its

latest energy bill while, on the other side of Congress, the Senate has

backed away from the contentious issue. Last month, a majority of House

members defeated a series of amendments that would have exempted the Arctic

National Wildlife Refuge from the bill.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INSURANCE companies have been asked to subscribe to a European Road Safety Charter, committing them to back measures reducing road accidents. The move is part of a seven-year plan to improve road safety in the European Union that has been launched by the European Commission; it aims to halve the number of people killed in road accidents annually across the EU from 40,000 to 20,000 by 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW body to drive forward the development of fuel cell technology in Britain has been launched. The Department of Trade and Industry said “Fuel Cells UK” would help the emerging UK sector by promoting the fuel cell industry and by acting as a central contact point for industry and the research community.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
NEW proposals to overhaul and modernise the European Union’s (EU) regulatory system for chemicals, announced by the European Commission, may prove less restrictive than feared for producers of polymers and other chemicals used in the production of adhesives and sealants.…