And an opinion poll conducted by BVA-Absoluce suggested that 52% of voters now saw the National Front as a "party like the others".

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Assuming the polling is reputable (and it is by a well-known firm, BVA) it serves as a useful reminder that Moroccan communities in different bits of western Europe are anything but monolithic: they report very different experiences and views of the world.

ECONOMIST: European politics

Associate Professor Gregg Suaning, of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and a project leader in the national bionic eye consortium, Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), said the new, 98-channel microchip, now undergoing preliminary lab testing, was a major step towards the goal of a functional bionic eye.

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It will be at the core of the Wide-View neurostimulator device being developed by BVA, with the first full implant of the system in a patient planned for 2013.

ENGADGET: Bionic eye closer to human trials with invention of implantable microchip

Two-fifths of employees, according to a 2010 study by BVA, a polling firm, actively dislike their firm's top managers.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter