On the positive side, sustained economic development would create new and potentially large gains from trade, as well as much-needed co-operation in science and culture.

ECONOMIST: By invitation

For more than 50 years we have been promoting international co-operation in ocean science.

UNESCO: THEMES

The minister herself, 57, was said to be on a five-day education and science co-operation trip to South Africa.. Education minister since 2005, she is described as a close colleague of Chancellor Merkel.

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Operated as a crowdsourced reference site much like Wikipedia, Science Fraud, in its six months of operation, documented egregiously suspicious research results published in over 300 peer reviewed publications.

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The primary difference between the terrestrial-based instruments and AMS is that AMS' science instrument systems were miniaturized and ruggedized for launch on the space shuttle and operation on the space station.

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"At that point, he could dictate the rules and the rules were that it was off the record, " says Martha Joynt Kumar, professor of political science at Towson University and author of Managing the President's Message: The White House Communication Operation.

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