Issue # 106 _ December 2004

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Input for development: Universities, public sector and NGOs develop projects for solving social problems

Governor Geraldo Alckmin quickly appointed the Foundation's new executives

Foundation reconstitutes net worth and reestablishes financial health

Partnership between Pesquisa FAPESP and Eldorado radio station takes listeners the best of national science

Conservation actions will only bear fruit with a long term view of profit

At the age of five, the Biota program is consolidating data about fauna and flora and investing in environmental education

Compound developed in Rio Grande do Sul dissolves plaques that obstruct blood vessels

Enzyme reduces the loss of healthy cells exposed to ultraviolet radiation

Only three degrees of separation are interposed between all Brazilian players, whether stars or duffers

New generation of optical fibers opens up room for increasing the capacity of the telecommunications networks and brings novelties to medicine

Use of plasma expands the useful life of orthopedic prostheses and industrial tools

Study intends to identify the genes responsible for the sucrose in sugarcane

The history of Mário de Andrade's Culture Department

Death of Celso Furtado, at the age of 84, brings back the question of the problems of national underdevelopment