From 1958 to 1970 Wladimiro Dorigo, my father, directed a political and cultural magazine called "Questitalia" ("This italy"), where emerging political issues were discussed, and the ongoing transformations of Italian society were dissected by a distinguished group of intellectuals. I own a copy of all the 150 issues of that publication, and every once in a while I pick one of them out of the lot at random, and learn what Italy was 40 or 50 years ago.

MAARSSEN, Netherlands, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --

CPhI Japan - with ICSE Japan and P-MEC Japan - marked its seventh anniversary in April with robust numbers and positive feedback, against the most challenging business background in pharma services for several years.

Organisers UBM International Media were rewarded with good exhibitor and visitor responses to expanded and new features. The co-located events form Japan's leading ingredients, contract services and equipment exhibitions and seminars.

Bookings for next year's Japan shows were also higher than in previous years. In a further positive development for the region, this month's CPhI China exhibition has been fully sold, with visitor pre-registrations sharply ahead of 2008.

Injury of the peripheral nerves, such as the nerves in your arms, is common and often results in a loss of function or sensation.  Although these nerves have the capacity to regenerate and reconnect, recovery is often limited to short distances and outcomes remain relatively poor.  

With school budgets already sub-par, and the purse strings futher tightened in this current economic state, teachers have to find ways to do more with less. One suggestion, if I may, is to combine chemistry and history. Checking off the list of U.S. presidents while also teaching children about the periodic table is a great way to kill two birds with one stone, and who knows, it may even help retention of each subject.

(I use U.S. presidents as one example; you could easily apply the venerable Table to a whole host of subjects.) 

Let's start easy.

The idea of the “selfish gene” was intended to shift focus from the organism to the gene to provide a different perspective on natural selection. It was been described as a metaphor, or simply a semantic issue. However, without precision in our use of such words, we risk creating assumptions and assigning values where none exist. This is the same problem that occurs in describing animal behavior when one anthropomorphizes.

“The key question, as we shall see, is how natural selection can produce selfish genes that prescribe unselfishness.”

Bert Hölldobler and Edward.O.Wilson, The Ants

EXTON, Pennsylvania, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Registration Now Open for Series That Runs June Through November

Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that registration is now open at www.Bentley.com/BeConnected for its innovative Be Connected online seminar series. Be Connected gives architects, engineers, builders, geospatial professionals, and owner-operators a chance to learn about applying information modeling from some of the world's leading infrastructure practitioners -- free of charge, in both live and OnDemand formats. The series, which takes the place of this year's Be Conference, begins June 23.

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AMSTERDAM, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Virtual Environment Brings Renowned Organic Chemists Live From Paris to Your Desk Top

Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that it will host the Tetrahedron Virtual Conference (http://www.tetrahedron-symposium.elsevier.com) - a real-time virtual platform offering low cost online access to the high quality content to be presented at the Tenth Tetrahedron Symposium in Paris, France, 24-26 June 2009.

BILLERICA, Massachusetts, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --

WHO:

Vertica Systems, maker of high-performance analytic database management software, and Sigma Systems, a leading supplier of OSS solutions for the design, delivery, management, and mediation of advanced communications and entertainment services.

WHAT:

The two companies are hosting a webinar about a new internet protocol detail record (IPDR) mediation and data warehousing solution for cable and telecom service providers. The solution enables providers to analyze terabytes of usage and subscriber data at any level of detail and in real time in order to identify service upgrade opportunities, reduce revenue leakage, create advanced advertising programs and improve customer retention.

DETAILS:

SAN DIEGO, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Updated Guidance Reflects Increased Demand for High-End Chipsets

Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, today updated its financial guidance for the third fiscal quarter ending June 28, 2009.

The following statements are forward looking and actual results may differ materially. Please see Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements at the end of this news release for a description of certain risk factors and Qualcomm's annual and quarterly reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a more complete description of risks that may affect the forward-looking statements.

Pro Forma Defined

NOIDA, India, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Collaboration to Provide Endo Pharmaceuticals With New Drug Candidates in Oncology

Jubilant Organosys Ltd., headquartered in Noida, announced today that its Bangalore-based subsidiary, Jubilant Biosys Ltd., has entered into a discovery and development collaboration with Endo Pharmaceuticals, a US-based pharmaceutical company. As part of the agreement, Jubilant and Endo would collaborate initially to develop a portfolio of targets in the area of oncology, with a focus on delivering preclinical candidates that could be selected for joint clinical development.

Endo will own any compounds developed under the collaboration and will be responsible for worldwide commercialization.