Inventions today are more complicated than ever, which makes it hard to judge the quality of new patents and relatively easy to get protection for half-baked ideas. Sooner or later, those half-baked inventions become the subject of bank-breaking litigation, and the U.S. Supreme Court recently said that needs to stop....
CHRISTMAS is coming - and it's time to think small - really, really small. A fantastic gift for budding boffins and ceaselessly curious screen monkeys, the USB Microscope is one gadget they will use again and CHRISTMAS is coming - and it's time to think small - really,...
Byline: By PETER YOUNG Political Editor PLANS for a flagship housing company to spearhead a drive to build thousands of homes in Newcastle are being challenged by scrutiny watchdogs. City council leaders are backing the idea of setting up a Local Housing Company in partnership with...
AAP Sports News Australia08-27-2008Soc: Domenech denies World Cup qualifying points ultimatum By Keyvan Naraghi PARIS, Aug 27 AFP - Under-pressure French coach Raymond Domenech on Tuesday scotchedrumours that he has been given a points ultimatum for next month's 2010 World Cup qualifiers. Domenech was...
PARIS AFP — Under-pressure French coach Raymond Domenech on Tuesday scotched rumours that he has been given a points ultimatum for next month's 2010 World Cup qualifiers. Domenech was responding to a report in French sports daily L'Equipe, which said he had been given an objective of five...
T. Boone Pickens has broadcast his way right into the middle of a presidential election debate about United States energy policy. Americans are upset about $4-a-gallon gasoline, and the iconoclastic oilman has bought a lot of airtime to tell us what he thinks about the situation. Pickens' views have injected...
Preparing for power Day One Welfare and crime As Labour's fortunes go from bad to worse, it is increasingly likely that Britain will have a Conservative government after the next election. Yet the policies David Cameron would introduce have so far had little scrutiny. Every day this week, The Independent...
Civil servant who through the implementation of 'Next Steps' brought profound change to Whitehall Peter Kemp was instrumental in profoundly changing the organisation of the Civil Service. He was an outstanding and lateral- thinking administrator who made a reality of the ideas set out in the Prime...
Byline: JOHN R ELLAM I WAS pleased to read that the scrutiny panel have decided that the people from this area that fought in the Great War should be remembered and an online database should be set up. This is a very laudable idea, but how...
Having previously placed the blame for rising energy costs on Big Oil, OPEC, greedy refiners and various other vilified price gougers and corporate misfits, Congress is now focused on a new culprit: speculators. Specifically, the hedge funds, pension funds and other large institutions that buy and sell oil futures contracts...
RIVAL councillors are arguing over ways of getting rid of plastic bags that damage the environment. Labour councillors in Newcastle want to make a start in the city's libraries, which give away 25,000 plastic carriers a year. But when they put forward a lengthy motion on...
BREAKOUT SESSIONS 10:00-11:30 AM (A01) LEGAL UPDATE MANDALAY BAY J TOPIC AREA Compliance/Legislative/Legal AFTER THIS SESSION, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: * Describe the latest developments in antitrust, fraud and abuse, billing the uninsured, corporate responsibility, privacy, taxation,...
There's not much a government minister can propose these days without being ridiculed by the press and the opposition parties. Angela Eagle, the "Justice minister", has managed it, however. Her announcement that the possession of drawings and computer-generated images of "child sex abuse" would become illegal - punishable by a...
A HOTLINE is to be set up for taxi passengers to report on the service they have received. The idea has been revealed by Clr Christine Iredale who continues as head of Kirklees's Licensing and Safety Committee after the local elections at the start of this month. ...
He seems to think he can magically unite the two main strands in the foreign-policy establishment. He can’t. Amid the din of the dueling democrats, people seem to have forgotten about that other guy in the presidential race—you know, John McCain. McCain is said to be benefiting from...
LEADERSHIP Bank CEOs today face more pressure and scrutiny than at any time in recent memory. Increased competitive pressure, frustrated shareholders, market volatility and an unfriendly yield curve are challenging even the most solid institutions. Private institutions and mutuals might enjoy being less visible to the public,...
"Lost" won't be back with new episodes until next week, but I wanted to talk this week about a very "Lost" concept: continuity. It used to be continuity was the idea in movies that a character wearing a green tie in one scene shouldn't be wearing...
Credo Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate, 49 I believe... Ken Livingstone is completely out of touch. He is surrounded by an impenetrable ring of unelected advisors, whose pet subjects only occasionally coincide with what is good for Londoners. ...
THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS by Patrick French Macmillan, £20, pp. 400, ISBN 9780330433501 £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 A man whose personal life contains as many potentially unflattering episodes as V. S. Naipaul might easily have been resistant to the idea of biographical scrutiny....
Sunshine Week, the annual celebration of open government, is upon us. March 16-22, news organizations across the nation will update readers and viewers on the status of open government. Editorials have a special role to play in that coverage. Reporters will describe how easily citizens can gain access...
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