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	The National Radiological Protection Board - Explains the role of the NRPB which is a statutory body charged with researching into, and advising on, protecting people from radiation hazards. Includes a glossary of terms, publications and services, training and customer support.
	British National Space Centre - BNSC is Britain's space agency which advises and acts on behalf of Government and the Research Councils, to provide a focus for UK civil space policies.
	UKAEA - Responsible for the decommissioning of nuclear reactors, and other nuclear liabilities, used for the UK nuclear energy research and development programme.
	The UK Meteorological Office - Includes latest weather, research and information on the history of the organisation.
	UKHO Home Page - UK Hydrographic Office site which provides information on admiralty publications providing assistance in finding the right document.
	Central Science Laboratory - CSL is an executive agency of MAFF, tasked with carrying out research on agricultural, food and environmental topics. Includes details of their research and latest news on issues of interest.
	Human Genetics Commission - UK Government site concerning the implications of recent developments in the science of genetics and their applications.
	Bio Guide - UK biotechnology resource, from the Department of Trade and Industry.
	Bio-Wise Programme - Partnership programme with UK businesses, associations and the industry to show how biotechnology can improve a company's competitive position. Funded by the UK Department of Trade and Industry.
	Council for Science and Technology - Government advisory body on major science and technology issues of strategic importance to the United Kingdom. Site provides information about the CST's membership, activities and reports.
	Smart Initiative - Small Business Service-sponsored initiative providing grants to help individuals and small to medium-sized businesses to make better use of technology and to develop technologically innovative products and processes.
	Office of Science and Technology - Provides press releases plus information on a variety of topics including biotechnology and GM issues, international science and technology and science policy across Government.
	All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) - Aims to provide a discussion forum between new media industries and Parliamentarians for the mutual benefit of both parties. Details of members, events, and publications.
	Gene Therapy Advisory Committee - Advises on the ethical acceptability of proposals for gene therapy research on humans and on developments in gene therapy research. Provides information on the Committee's work and publications.

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Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin Science and Technology All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Science and Technology He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Science and Technology An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Science and Technology Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Science and Technology Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Science and Technology I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Science and Technology Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows Science and Technology A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Science and Technology Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan Science and Technology then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana Science and Technology The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Science and Technology "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Science and Technology I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Science and Technology "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Science and Technology If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb Science and Technology Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (Andr� Gide) Science and Technology "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (Fran�ois VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Science and Technology The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Science and Technology And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning "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) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Science and Technology A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Science and Technology Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |