Capital attractions

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Germany's capital, Berlin, an island for almost 30 years during the cold war, has reinvented itself since 1990 as the melting pot of people and cultures that it used to be in the early twentieth century. The city is an unlikely mix of the nostalgic and the futuristic, the trivial and the sublime, a matches memorial of history and a bold promise of tomorrow, and a place changing so fast that is hard to keep pace.

Germany, Analysis, Medical colleges, Medical schools, Sciences education, Science education

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Russia fuels fury with scheme for importing nuclear waste

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Russia's nuclear ministry, Minatom, hopes to generate $US20 million dollars in the next 12 years by importing 20,000 tonees of nuclear waste for storage and possibly for reprocessing, in Siberia. International environmental groups are opposed to the plan, which is currently illegal, but which will become legal when a bill is approved in the Russian parliament.

Usage, Environmental aspects, Environmental policy, Radioactive wastes, Minatom

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Russia needs help to fend off potato famine, researchers warn

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Scientists say Russia could suffer a devastating potato famine due to new, aggressive strains of potato light blight. Experts are urging international action and co-ordinated research into late blight to help Russia.

Potatoes, Diseases and pests

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