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BY MARK ROWE
DISPUTES over who owns an idea and the right to stop others from stealing it probably date back to the cavemen who invented the wheel. It was most likely resolved by the application of a large club to the head.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE FIRST steps have been taken towards making cigarettes – a cornerstone of small shop revenue – an under-the-counter product worldwide. Laws have already been passed in Canada and Ireland banning the public display of tobacco products, dismaying shopkeepers’ representatives.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is to help set up an Islamic Financial Services Board to regulate and lay down standards for financial transactions throughout the Islamic world. A key aim of the project is to incorporate the special insurance tenets that exist in the Islamic business world into the wider capitalist system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LETS face it. The reputation of the European Union for taking firm action against crime is not solid. Rather it is known for issuing waffley communiqués that say what needs to be done, without saying when or how.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO and the United States made pledges on several food industry issues during recent two-day talks. The countries have agreed to work together on sanitary policies, animal health, food safety, and research. US-Mexico agricultural trade has doubled since 1993 to US$13 billion in 2001.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
SYDNEY is the “defamation capital of the English-speaking world” according to a British legal expert working in Australia’s largest city. Based on his research, figures show that one writ is served for every 79,000 people in the state of New South Wales; a higher rate than England, (one writ per 121,000 people), and much higher than the United States, where the proportion us one writ per 2.3 million people.…

KEITH NUTHALL
An American marketing agency has developed new technology called “observational research” which follows customers in shops through a hidden video camera, monitoring how they react to merchandise on sale.

Fame, a subsidiary of U.S advertising giant Omnicom Group, uses people’s expression like raised eyebrows because of a high price, the length of time a person holds an item or if they struggle to open and sample a product to test whether the displayed item will sell well or should be altered in price or look.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has launched a comprehensive research programme to unmask mysteries surrounding the contraction of venous thrombosis by air passengers, including epidemiological, pathophysiological and clinical studies.

Scientists will aim to determine the frequency and causes of travellers’ thrombosis, to identify who is at greatest risk and what may be done to prevent the condition.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
ELECTRONIC noses being tested in Australia could be used to monitor smell levels from meat processing centres. The odour sentinels, created by the Centre for ChemoSensory Research, in Sydney, contain conductive material which detects smells above certain levels of intensity and can identify the source.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ROLAND Schenkel, the German former director of the European Union’s Joint Research Centre’s Karlsruhe institute has been appointed the organisation’s Deputy Director-General with special responsibility for nuclear studies and decommissioning.…