Flaws of motion

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The 1998 European Commission conference on women in science agreed to gather data on the work of female scientists within the Union. Some observers suggest the most important reason whilst women fail to progress in science is the attitudes and actions of men. Men prevent women receiving the praise and promotion they should be awarded. Some 40% of university students studying science are women but only 3% of science professors are female. A similar situation is found in many other European countries although in the US 18% of science professors are women.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Demographic aspects, Employment, European Union. European Commission, Women scientists

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Strange bouquet

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Some scientists welcome the new classification of flowering plants which based on their DNA and suggest further research is necessary to widen the information used to classify plants. The new classification may challenge the way some plants are seen to be related to others. Plants are related to each other under the new system because they had the same ancestor. Kew Gardens, London, England, Scientist Mark Chase and 50 other scientists throughout the world have studied DNA sequences of many flowering plants since the early 1990s.

Usage, Officials and employees, Behavior, Plants, Plants (Organisms), Identification and classification, Chromosome mapping, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Chase, Mark

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Cash injection raises people power

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The UK Medical Research Council (MRC) will receive an additional 44 million pounds sterling of funding a year by 2001-2002, with a further 90 million pounds sterling due during the following three years under the comprehensive spending review. The MRC plans to use most of the funds to encourage leading foreign biomedical researchers to work in research units and universities in the UK, with funds also likely to be invested in MRC training programmes. Potential team leaders will also be sought.

Finance, Research institutes, Recruiting, Alien labor, Medical Research Council (United Kingdom), Foreign labor

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