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The article reports on the economic condition in Great Britain in 2008. It is stated that the British economy has suffered a remarkable series of blows which began with the effect of non-performing subprime assets in the U.S. and headed the financial institutions to lend money in consideration for commercial paper. In the real economy, the demand for housing turns harder, more expensive and started to witness house price deflation. It is said that the economy is still predicted to grow.

The article offers news briefs on the chemical industry as of January 18, 2006. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a process for sintering boron carbide powder used in body armor. British polyether ether ketone (PEEK) producer Victrex has tweaked the chemistry of its PEEK material making it viable as a substrate for adhesive tape. The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded research grants for projects aimed at saving energy in the pulp and paper industry.

The article reports on the U.S. demands for greater market access for its food in Great Britain following Brexit, as stated in a negotiating paper published by the U.S. Trade Representative on March 1, 2019. In the paper, the U.S. says it aims to secure comprehensive market access for agricultural goods by eliminating or reducing tariffs.

The article discusses the efforts to provide greater technical input into the nonnuclear payload and systems of any Trident-based successor to the nuclear deterrent of Great Britain. The country has been studying more involvement with the U.S. should it decide to pursue a future nuclear deterrent that continues to be based on a submarine-launched ballistic missile. Paul Drayson, the British defense procurement minister, said a White Paper reviewing their options with regard to a Trident successor will be made public.

The article reports on the launch of UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) on January 9, 2007. UKPMC is the British version of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's PubMed Central. It will provide free access to a permanent online archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences. The service is the product of work done by the Wellcome Trust to encourage British research-funding bodies to promote and encourage open access publishing. A special manuscript-submission system has been also introduced to let scientists submit articles that have been accepted in a peer-reviewed journal directly to UKPMC.

Comments on the American press' dissemination of an article about the medical benefits of shaken over stirred martini drinks, originally published in a spoof Christmas issue of the `British Medical Journal.' Questions raised over the validity of the study's claims; Discovery of the prank upon examining the Christmas issue; Papers in the United States that ran the story; Lessons for other publications.