Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 13 June 2008: 1404.
After a year of gathering advice on how to improve its overloaded peer-review system, the U.S. National Institutes of Health last week unveiled a plan to ease the workload on both applicants and reviewers and to help young investigators.
FUSION RESEARCH: Design Changes Will Increase ITER Reactor's Cost
Daniel Clery
Science 13 June 2008: 1405.
This month, funders of the €10 billion ITER fusion project, which seeks to demonstrate that a burning plasma can be controlled to produce useful energy, face the daunting task of keeping the project's budget under control, as scientists present a wish list of design changes.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: Changes in Peer Review Target Young Scientists, HeavyweightsGEOLOGY: Two Years On, a Mud Volcano Still Rages--and Bewilders
Dennis Normile
Science 13 June 2008: 1406.
As a disastrous mud eruption on Indonesia's Java Island marks its second anniversary, the unprecedented event continues to stir debate about whether it resulted from an exploratory gas well drilling accident or a distant earthquake and how long it will last.
GEOLOGY: Unstoppable
Dennis Normile
Science 13 June 2008: 1407.
The Indonesian mud volcano Lusi is unique in its longevity and the volume of material ejected. It may also be setting records for the number of failed attempts to plug it. ...........
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Plantagenet England 1225-1360 (New Oxford History of England)
In this thorough and illuminating work, Michael Prestwich provides a comprehensive study of Plantagenet England, a dramatic and turbulent period which saw many changes. In politics it saw Simon de Montfort's challenge to the crown in Henry II's reign and it witnessed the deposition of Edward I. In contrast, it also saw the highly successful rules of Edward I and his grandson, Edward III. Political institutions were transformed with the development of parliament and war was a dominant theme: Wales was conquered and the Scottish Wars of Independence started in Edward I's reign, and under Edward III there were triumphs at Crecy and Poitiers. Outside of politics, English society was developing a structure, from the great magnates at the top to the peasantry at the bottom. Economic changes were also significant, from the expansionary period of the thirteenth century to years of difficulty in the fourteenth century, culminating in the greatest demographic disaster of historical times, the Black Death. In this volume in the New Oxford History of England series, Michael Prestwich brings this fascinating century to life.
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Ten years have elapsed since the first edition of this Dictionary. The vocabulary of economics in the broadest sense has considerably grown. Many neologisms have sprung from continued changes in national economies, not least the innovations in financial markets and growing concerns about the environment. Institutional changes, for example, the coming of the World Trade Organisation, and new interests in economic thought, not least through the further awards of Nobel Prizes for Economics, have inspired new entries. Inevitably some terms in the first edition have not been as durable as others and recommended reading needed revision. Extensive reading of economics journals and monographs, as well as newspapers, has produced over a thousand new entries. The organisation of the Dictionary has also been changed. The newer version of the subject classification employed by the Journal of Economic Literature and The Economic Journal has been applied to previous and new entries.
