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1. Westminster Diary.

Author

Dalyell, Tam

Subjects
*INTERNATIONAL cooperation, *GREENHOUSE gas mitigation, *TOILET paper, *ORGAN donation
Abstract

Presents news briefs in Great Britain as of May 5, 2001. Stand of the country in the Kyoto Protocol; Information on the toilet tissue manufactured by Procter & Gamble; Tissue donation in the country.

Published
2001

2. Crumbs from Blair's table.

Subjects
*INTERNATIONAL economic relations, *ECONOMIC policy, BRITISH foreign relations, GERMAN foreign relations
Abstract

Discusses foreign relations between Great Britain and Germany in light of the June 1999 publication of a joint Anglo-German paper called `Europe, the third way, die neue Mitte,' emphasizing New Labour positions on Anglo-Saxon economics. Political, economic and institutional differences between Britain and Germany; Identification of the group that prepared the paper; Possible gains for British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Published
1999

3. Byzantium 330-1453, London, Royal Academy of Arts.

Author

KORANYI, JAMES

Subjects
*BYZANTINE art, *ART & history, *OTTOMAN Empire, *ART exhibitions
Abstract

The paper discusses an exhibition currently hosted by the Royal Academy of Arts and devoted to over one thousand years of Byzantine art, featuring the most important and wide-reaching collection of artifacts from the Byzantine period displayed in Britain over the last fifty years. The exhibition is revealing not merely because of the objects on display but also because of what it says in connection to our contemporary understanding of Europe itself. The study suggests that the exhibition is indicative of a shift in the images of East and West. This is not to say that we are witnessing an end to the intra-European divide between East and West, but rather that the current geopolitical context has accentuated the notion of a division between Europe and Islam. Thus, the public are inadvertently presented with the false yet dominant idea that Islam represented and still represents the end or at the very least a caesura of European culture. A deeper insight into history, however, reveals a very different picture, as the persistence and legacy of Byzantine art and religious life were more or less guaranteed under Ottoman rule. great britain [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2009

4. Fishy science.

Subjects
*SALMON, *POLYCHLORINATED biphenyls, *FISH farming, *CONTAMINATION of edible fish, *PUBLIC health, *GOVERNMENT policy
Abstract

According to a paper published in Science on January 9th, levels of organochlorines in farmed salmon are so high in Scottish output that people should eat less than half a portion of salmon a month. Organochlorines are unpleasant chemicals such as dioxins and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) produced by industry that hang around in the environment. They accumulate in animals, concentrating in the fatty parts. The authors of the Science paper looked at 700 salmon from around the world. Europe's salmon came off worst overall; among European salmon, Scottish fish did particularly badly. Yet America's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Britain's Food Standards Agency (FSA) think there is nothing to worry about, so long as people eat the amounts they recommend. Contaminant levels reported in the study are easily within guidelines set by the FDA, the World Health Organisation and the European Commission. So why did the authors of the Science paper come to such a different conclusion? Because they based their findings on the method of assessing toxicological risk used by a different regulator, the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), to advise sport fishermen how much of the fish they catch they can eat.

Published
2004

5. Midsummer follies.

Subjects
*ARCHAEOLOGY, *ASTRONOMY, *CALENDARS (Publications)
Abstract

Discusses how archaeologists are changing their interpretations of the ancient stoneworks of Europe and the understanding of astronomy that they represent. Details of Gerald Hawkins' 1963 paper, "Stonehenge decoded;" Importance of midsummer and midwinter; Boyne valley in Ireland and Maes Howe tomb in Orkneys; Comparisons with civilizations of Central America, particularly the Mayans.

Published
1991

6. Politics.

Subjects
*GLOBAL warming, *ENERGY consumption, *AUTOMOBILE industry, *AVIAN influenza
Abstract

The article reports on a number news stories that occurred in February 2007. Among a number of news items is the report that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivered its paper on global warming, that the European Commission imposed fuel efficiency standards on European automakers and that there was an outbreak of the H5N1 avian influenza in Great Britain, leading to the slaughter of 160,000 turkeys.

Published
2007