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Science has yet to advance us to the level depicted in
The Six Million Dollar Man...

"Caucus members have worked steadily over the years to address the needs in their communities, so it is particularly satisfying to deliver a budget that is favourable for universities and colleges." --Peter Adams, MP for Peterborough

"Most importantly, a great sense of mutual respect and support has developed between people working in different areas, so that we find people cooperating and supporting each other's initiatives, who in many university settings would be rivals in a battle for resources."

There are many advantages of doing business in Quebec for biotech and big pharma companies.

The Web site shifts the emphasis from one-off workshops to something that can be more systemic, involving participation in a virtual community and completion of online activities.

"Showing that you have a clue about running a business, be it your own or someone else's, is key to securing a job in venture capital."

NSERC's funding woes continue despite the federal government's earlier promise for increased spending on research and development.

Although the capacity of the profession is still an unknown, it seems that there's little chance of the field drying up.

"With the business plan competition, we wanted to create an environment where inventors and people with high-tech or biotech ideas could work with other people interested in similar things."

"Vitesse's VBP-ITP is specifically focussed on bridging the gap for internationally trained professionals--particularly biologists--by addressing issues of English language skills, interpretation of foreign academic credentials, and deficits in understanding Canada's workplace culture."

"The development of R&D clusters in the Atlantic provinces is the latest example of the public and private sectors working together to overcome the knowledge transfer hurdle."

The ongoing tuition increases raise the average debt load of students in this country, and they make it more difficult for students to graduate on time.

Mother Nature, it seems, has compromised aesthetics for rapid wound closure in the interests of survival of the organism.