Issue # 73 _ March 2002
S&T Policy
biotechnology
A market in expansion
Biominas finds that 51% of companies has no more than seven years
Science
Medicine
The vaccine that protects the heart
Ambitious project begins to combat rheumatic fever, which attacks the heart tissue
By Adilson AugustoCattle
A sure shot
Vaccine ensures that only animals infected with the foot-and-mouth disease be slaughtered
personality
A complete physicist
Dead at 96, Bernhard Gross coupled theory and practice with rare brilliance
Technology
biotechnology
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Copies of perfection
ProClone is working to add quality and competitiveness to ornamental plant production in Brazil
marine engineering
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Simulations on the screen and in the bay waters
Tanks from USP Coppe-UFRJ to help Petrobras explore for oil in ultradeep waters
By Yuri Vasconcelos and Wagner de OliveiraHumanities
anthropology
Capitalism with a Brazilian face
A study reveals the idiosyncrasies of the national administration of companies
By Maria Inês NassifDiplomacy
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The Quixotic liberal of the Republic
Book recovers the ideas of Oliveira Lima, the pioneer of nationality