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...Melinda Gates indicated that very little is being done by governments to help create drugs for diseases in poor countries, which makes me curious about what is happening. Bill Gates has been celebrated as a philanthropist. Isn't it time to call him a hero too? Claes Molin Gothenburg, Sweden Celebrating Arab Scholars Re Your interesting article "Ahead Of Their Time," on the Paris exhibition of Arab cultural breakthroughs [Nov. 21]: The gold astrolabe you pictured does not bear Arabic script but is in Hebrew. Could you explain why? Michaela Mills Jerusalem Fourteenth century Spain was populated by Muslims, Christians...
...vast stretches of the Northern Territory and Western Australia where they have traditionally been prolific. Wilton's keen to do more sampling, but hasn't been able to find funding and has to rely on charging a per sample fee. Now, with the help of a Ph.D. student from Sweden, he is about to begin trying to extract dna from skulls collected in the 1960s and '70s - the oldest he's been able to find here or overseas - stored in twenty 44-gallon drums held by the csiro...
...international marketing director for the firm Betfair, based in Britain. "Poker is a game played by many tens of millions of Americans. It is played by Presidents and judges. It's strange to say it's illegal just because it is online." In other places, from Hong Kong to Sweden, online wagering similarly runs up against a thicket of restrictions. In Britain, where punters regularly wager in betting shops, online gaming is now legal, which is why companies such as PartyGaming have gone public on the London Stock Exchange...
...much of Continental Europe, online gambling is bringing unwanted competition to state-owned monopolies, which provide a hefty chunk of tax revenue to national treasuries every year. In Sweden, as much as half the nation's fixed-odds betting has moved from the state monopoly to an online firm based in Malta. The U.S. is losing about $7 billion a year by prohibiting Internet-gambling companies, says Las Vegas attorney Anthony Cabot. Says Eugene Christiansen, chief executive of Christiansen Capital Advisors, based in New Gloucester, Maine: "They have to stand by and watch British and other countries' companies eat their...
...currently holding a tender for two new reactors; British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who last week hosted an international conference on climate change, has called for a debate about the future of nuclear power amid signs that the government may order several new plants; and in both Germany and Sweden, public debates are raging as to whether to reverse a previous commitment to shut down existing reactors. It's no surprise that Lauvergeon talks about a "nuclear renaissance...