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Cover

It killed Liberty and went to the cinema

Website reveals documents on how the dictatorship censored Brazilian filmmakers

3rd Conference of ST&I

Biodiesel is ours

Brazil needs partners to maintain the leadership in renewable fuels

management

Rector Suely

The first woman to command USP wants to strengthen undergraduate courses

Legislation

Waiting for results

The regulations decree puts into effect the Innovation Law

Publications

The polemic article

Magazine cancelled the work of the Brazilians concerning Chagas' disease

Disclosure

Beasts of the Pampas (praires)

Artists reconstruct the pre-historical fauna that inhabited Rio Grande do Sul

Sociology

Has the nation hung up its soccer shoes?

In Brazil, football is seen by specialists as a paradigm of globalization

Financing

Modernized management

Regulation of the FNDCT will strengthen work of Science and Technology

Physics

A delicate bridge

Electrons can change their behavior in nanowire connections

Federal Government

A physicist at the head of the ministry

Sergio Rezende assumes Science and Technology

Chemistry

Nano Particles

New magnetic materials will be useful in electronics and in medicine

Legislation

Battle in the courts

Law that permits the use of embryonic stem cells is contested

Electrical Engineering

Digital farming

Company develops precision equipment for use in agriculture

Cover

Transgenics

Permission to market GMOs should expand investments in biotechnology

Electrical Engineering

Body heat

Equipment detects temperature variations by way of infrared radiation

History

Doctors or monsters?

Slavery drove the development of tropical medicine

Budget

Consolidated equilibrium

FAPESP starts off 2005 with financial liquidity of R$ 178. 2 million

Rationalization

Phasing out

SAGe will abolish the use of paper processes at the Foundation

Biochemistry

Sugar for diabetics

Component of the wall of a grass facilitates the absorption of glucose

Genetics

Tolerance to the cocktail

In SP, one third of infected with HIV show resistance to the anti-Aids drugs

Speech Therapy

Precision hearing

Equipment for hearing tests gains a more efficient calibration system

Entrepreneurial Companies

Initial Capital

Twenty PIPE companies prepare to take their projects to the market

Partnership

Incentive for innovation

Minister Eduardo Campos foresees greater investment in 2005

Support

The challenge to dare

International commission assesses the ten Cepids

Anthropology

The album of the patriarchal family

Thesis brings together the conflicting visions of Nelson Rodrigues and Gilberto Freyre on the Brazilians' household upbringing

Biotechnology

Hormone on the market

Small company teams up with Brazilian pharmaceutical industry to produce a medicine against dwarfism

Biochemistry

Pitomba versus pests

Protein extracted from the fruit eliminates fungi and borers

environment

Protection for biodiversity

Biota-Pará Project draws up list of species threatened with extinction

Cattle ranching

The advance of the cattle herds

Widening Brazil's competitive advantage in the international beef market

Budget

Sacrifice rewarded

Foundation reconstitutes net worth and reestablishes financial health