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By clock on February 14, 2008.

The elephants in the room: How the GOP lost its way by Hal Crowther

Kafkaesque Bureaucracies Impede Import of Scientific Goods in Brazil by Mauro Rebelo

Open Science and the developing world: Good intentions, bad implementation? by Cameron Neylon

Alternative Agriculture in Cuba (pdf) by Sara Oppenheim

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