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“We can confidently say that we share the same goals and pursue the same results on both sides of the Atlantic: namely to ensure effective competition between enterprises, by conducting a competition policy which is based on sound economics and which has the protection of consumer interest as its primary concern.” declared Mario Monti.

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The challenge for the pharmaceutical industry is to create medicines that provide profits despite the enormous development costs, which to a large extent have been created by the steep requirements of the consumers and the authorities on security and documentation.

At the same time opportunities rise for new kinds of drugs through the ongoing breakthroughs in the biosciences. The irony is that these new opportunities may pose serious problems for the industry, health care systems and regulators.

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President Putin of Russia announced that finally he would ratify the Kyoto Protocol after claiming the opposite for months. Irrespective of the reason for this change of mind, Russia`s ratification of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions pact may be the clincher for the application of the Protocol.

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The Ultimate Ressource 2 se présente d`abord comme un ouvrage de lutte contre la désinformation. Pour ne reprendre que quelques exemples du livre, concernant notamment la famine et la productivité des terres agricoles, Simon montre que l`emploi fréquent de certains graphiques et expressions, induit presque systématiquement le lecteur en erreur, au point que l`on doute parfois que ce procédé soit complètement involontaire.

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Britain`s defence industry is one of the last bastions of 1970s-style industrial policy. Protected from competition, it fails to provide Britain`s armed forces with the best equipment. The Best Kit: Why Britain`s Defence Doesn`t Need an All-British Defence Industry, a new publication from Policy Exchange authored by Antonia Feuchtwanger, argues that the government should stop trying to prop up `UK Defence Plc`, allow contractors to be taken over by foreign ones, and buy more equipment from abroad. The Best Kit states powerfully that the lives of our soldiers and the security of our nation must be placed before job protection schemes

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Hot Talk, Cold Science remet en question l`existence même du réchauffement climatique. Son auteur, Fred Singer, affirme que si le réchauffement climatique existait avec certitude, rien ne permettrait d`établir qu`il serait essentiellement causé par les activités humaines, notamment par les émissions de gaz carbonique ou d`autres gaz à effet de serre.

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Le chapitre 3 de Capitalism qui traite des problèmes d`environnement et de limitation des ressources naturelles (mais aussi de l`idéologie et de la philosophie écologistes), montre que le fondement d`une économie de l`environnement doit être l`intelligence humaine et non pas une quantité finie de ressources naturelles données.

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Si les grands média, malgré quelques exceptions, font souvent croire que les solutions proposées pour combattre le phénomène du réchauffement de l`atmosphère, considéré a priori comme problématique, sont connues et irréfutables, plusieurs ouvrages comparables à Adapt or Die montrent désormais qu`un débat sérieux et surtout loyal doit avoir lieu.

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We are surrounded by machines that are increasingly autonomous, although the autonomy we have managed to create is far from robust or comprehensive. Simple devices such as automatic doors might be broken. In other instances the automation will behave wrong, because it does not interpret the input correctly. Or the automation will behave according to specification, but the interaction between the machine and the human will produce unexpected behavior. Who is to blame when autonomous technology fails?

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Comme son titre l`indique, ce petit livre vivifiant s`installe résolument sur le terrain de la polémique. Bien que Gérard Bramoullé, économiste de son état, soumette ses travaux académiques à une rigueur épistémologique, conceptuelle et logique indéniable, il a choisi, à travers les pages de La Peste verte, de pousser un véritable « coup de gueule » contre les positions de l`écologie politique.

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