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RESEARCH AREA
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.…
EUROSTAT REFORM
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.…
STATOIL RESEARCH
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.…
PROBIOTICS
BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have discovered ways of protecting live chickens from salmonella, campylobacter and other pathogens that cause foodborne illness. Researchers from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Arkansas have used a concept called competitive exclusion, where probiotics (beneficial live bacteria), are fed to hatchling chickens.…
OBESITY COSTS
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.…
US QUOTA CALL
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.…
CALIFORNIA WINE
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.…
CANADA FUNDS ROW
BY MONICA DOBIE
A PUBLIC awareness campaign sponsored by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) – a Ottawa government agency – warning savers that mutual funds are not covered by the federal deposit insurance has sparked a row in the Canadian financial services sector.…
HAMBURG FOUNDATION
Keith Nuthall
THE ESTABLISHMENT of an International Foundation for the Law of the Sea has taken place at Hamburg, 21 years after the agreement of the United Nations Convention on the Law for the Sea. The Foundation will promote research, training and publications on maritime law, supporting the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, also based in Hamburg.…
HERMITAGE MUSEUM
BY MARK ROWE
THE LARGEST museum in the world and – arguably – the grandest of them all, the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is returning to its roots. In the middle of a long and painstaking modernisation process, the Russian museum is striving, in addition to the urgent physical restoration required to bring the museum into the 21st century, to recapture the ambience of its Imperial origins, when its vast palaces were the residence of the Tsars.…