Despite substantial improvements over the past 20 years in many key areas of sustainable development, the world is not on track to achieve the goals adopted in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

Indeed, while flashy, shoot 'em up adventures such as "Halo 3" require years of development time and enormous budgets, many of the developers at the show were more excited about Web sites such as Kongregate, which encourage users to build much less ambitious games.

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In places like Texas and Louisiana, where the population has been used to the industry being around on a constant basis for many years, the public overwhelmingly approves of the industry and appreciates the economic development it invariably brings along with it.

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The drug giants fear that a victory for Integra would make drug development more complicated, perhaps adding several years and many millions of dollars before products could come to market.

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In recent years, many compounds have been withdrawn for cardiotoxicity, representing potential losses of huge investments in research and development.

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Achieving that could take many years, for it will require technological advances in drugs and pesticides, as well as a development of public-health infrastructure in poor countries.

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The report suggests that any shale gas development outside of the United States is likely five to ten years away, primarily because many of the countries that could benefit from shale production do not have the specialized equipment needed to drill and frack horizontal wells.

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It has been in public ownership for many years, having been bought by the Land Authority for Wales and the Welsh Development Agency before coming under the control of the Welsh government.

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