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National Centre for Veterinary Contract Research and Commercial Services, Ltd - Organizes projects and contract research nationally as well as internationally for the private and public sectors. VESO provides leading-edge competence both in Norway and in the international veterinary environment.
Tromsø Satellite Station AS - Based on data from satellites, TSS offers earth observation products and monitoring services to customers within our coverage area, in near real-time.
Chr. Michelsen Institute - CMI is a private social science research foundation working on issues of development and human rights, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
The Norwegian Historical Data Centre - NHDC is a national institution with the main aim to computerize the Norwegian censuses 1865 onwards together with the parish registers and other sources from the 18th and 19th centuries. NDHC is a centre at the University of Tromsø.
Norwegian Hydrogen Forum (NHF) - An organisation to promote the environmental benefits of using hydrogen as an energy carrier. Features list of members, and information about research.
Institute of Marine Research - National centre for research on coastal and ocean life and the marine environment.
Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT) - Government agency offers news and information on air emissions, hazardous materials, and pollution-related concerns in and near Norway.
Ministry of the Environment - Government ministry offers the "State of the Environment Norway," facts and figures on Norway's environment and environmental activities, and internet links to related resources.
Norwegian Solar Energy Society (ISES Norway) - Features contact information and links. (Most of the site is in Norwegian.)
STEP-group - Institute doing research on innovation, economic growth, technological change and industry policy. Features reports, news, and a directory of links.
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin Science and Environment When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown Science and Environment The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Science and Environment I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Science and Environment Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey Science and Environment "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Science and Environment Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Science and Environment I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce Science and Environment "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Science and Environment "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Science and Environment I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from Science and Environment Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, Science and Environment I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Science and Environment "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Science and Environment Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Science and Environment Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Science and Environment If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Science and Environment The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz Science and Environment "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Science and Environment Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Science and Environment "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson Science and Environment
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