Cardiff's Millennium Stadium will stage several key games this weekend, notably the derbies between Wigan and St Helens, Hull FC and Hull KR, and Bradford and Leeds.

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Llanelli said it was best equipped to stage it at the Millennium Coastal Park but some in the west of the county said Carmarthen was more central.

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That's why Millennium was originally planning to wait for a larger, end-stage trial to finish before it submitted to the FDA. Millennium' answer: Patients who respond to Velcade seem to live longer than those who do not, so the medicine is having an effect.

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His placing in the Your Millennium vote as the greatest star of stage or screen, and the placing at number 10 of another Bollywood star, Govinda, is a reflection of the huge popularity of Indian films.

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Most of these changes would have been necessary at some stage, with or without the millennium bug.

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The RFU bid proposed that six pool-stage matches would take place at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium along with two quarter-final games, although the WRU would not be co-hosts.

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Midstage trial results were so promising that Millennium applied for federal approval this year, even before final-stage trials were completed.

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Separately, Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) used similar chips in its late-stage clinical studies of its cancer drug, Velcade.

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The Food and Drug Administration has given record-fast approvals to Novartis ' (nyse: NVS - news - people ) Gleevec and Millennium 's (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) Velcade based on relatively early-stage data in these diseases.

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