11/20/2008
France Dominates Europe?s Digital Library (New York Times)
A new digital library, called Europeana, intends to showcase Europe?s history, literature, arts and science.
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11/20/2008
United Europe celebrates ethnic diversity (CNN)
One of the things that charms me about traveling through Europe is its ethnic variety. Hop on a train and two hours later you step into a different culture, different language and different heritage.
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11/20/2008
Pfizer drops bid to sell Viagra over the counter in Europe (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Pfizer has dropped its bid to market its potency pill Viagra over the counter in Europe, the US pharmaceutical giant announced Thursday.
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11/20/2008
Readers Overwhelm Europe's New Digital Library (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
Europe's heritage went digital Thursday when the European Union launched an online library putting famous works such as Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Beethoven's 9th Symphony just a mouse click away.
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11/20/2008
AstraZeneca to cut jobs, close plants in Europe (AP via Yahoo! News)
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca PLC said Thursday it plans to close three plants in Spain, Belgium and Sweden and cut 1,400 jobs in Europe by 2013 to improve efficiency and expand investment in Asia to serve the growing market there.
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11/20/2008
LBO Firms May Need to Cut Fees, Europe's Biggest Investor Says (Bloomberg)
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Leveraged buyout firms may face pressure to cut their fees if the credit crisis continues to crimp dealmaking and returns, Europe's biggest investor in private-equity funds said.
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11/20/2008
Pfizer withdraws Europe application for OTC Viagra (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Pfizer Inc. said Thursday it has withdrawn an application to make 50-milligram Viagra tablets available over the counter in Europe.
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11/20/2008
EBRD Plans Record East Europe Investment to Stem Skid (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development plans to invest a record 7 billion euros ($8.8 billion) in central and eastern Europe next year to help the region weather a global economic slump.
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11/20/2008
11,000 alien species invade Europe (EurekAlert!)
( Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres ) For the first time it is now possible to get a comprehensive overview of which alien species are present in Europe, their impacts and consequences for the environment and society. More than 11,000 alien species have been documented by DAISIE, a unique three year research project with more than 100 European scientists, funded by the European ...
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11/20/2008
BDB Bank Lobby Expects Stagnation in Europe, Germany (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Germany's BDB bank association said it no longer expects any growth in Europe's largest economy nor in the 15 states that share the euro next year.
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