The resulting index is a mix of trend reportage, expert findings, data-rich analysis and future-positive prediction.
The Scottish government did not endorse the expert panel's findings and are now trying to get the royal charter proposed by the leaders of the main UK parties amended to make it comply with Scots law.
The British Dental Association said it was unnecessary to remove amalgam fillings, citing the findings of an expert government committee which concluded they posed no toxic risk.
She questioned why it had taken so long to produce and asked why it did not reflect the findings of the expert panel for the national curriculum review which reported in December last year.
This move is a direct result of the findings of an expert group at the National Cancer Institute in France which was asked on 5 December to examine the evidence surrounding the PIP implants.
The debate and parliamentary vote comes a week before the publication of the findings of an expert group set up to advise the Irish government on how to bring legal clarity to the issue of abortion.
Upon learning those findings, a TV forensics expert suggested that the way to understand what happened to Houston is to reverse the events.
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The findings and conclusions of the expert group meeting will also provide the basis for a report of the UN Secretary-General on this theme early in 2003.
Highly regarded transportation expert Robert Poole of Reason Foundation recounted the findings of this startling study in congressional testimony this summer.
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Prof Peter Lynn, an expert on survey methodology from Essex University, says the findings may be unreliable.
Prof Sophie Scott, an expert in speech perception at University College London, said the findings supported and added to current knowledge.
He added, however, that he thinks most people considering Lee as an expert witness will not be dissuaded by the judge's findings.
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Commenting on the latest findings, Dr Dominic Hodgson, an Antarctic lakes expert from the British Antarctic Survey (Bas) in Cambridge, said the research raised the possibility that there was life on Mars.
He focused on two recent incidents: Top NASA climate expert James Hansen was told not to talk to the media about his findings that voluntary measures proposed to deal with climate change won't be sufficient, and that the problem is getting worse.
Prof Bertil Fredholm, an expert in pharmacology and physiology at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, said the findings were reassuring for coffee-lovers.
Nancy Rabalais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and an expert on dead zones who didn't participate in the study, said its findings are consistent with climate change scenarios she projects for the upper Mississippi River basin, where flooding caused high algae concentrations two years ago.
Professor Lorraine Sherr, an expert in the psychology of parenting at University College London, told the BBC News website the findings were not surprising.
"It will completely change the search for new treatments and the way we think about the disease, " says Irving Weissman, a renowned stem cell expert at Stanford University, who says several big drug firms have taken an interest in the latest findings.
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