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18 December 2008

Research Director's Report: Common task groups are underway
Around the World: Announcement: TILC09 will be held in Tsukuba next April
Director's Corner: A year in the life of the ILC
In the News – Un grupo de físicos se reúne hoy para desarrollar nuevos detectores de partículas
In the News – Obama Picks Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu for Energy Secretary
In the News – Bertolucci a capo del laboratorio Cern
In the News – A talk with Lisa Randall
In the News – Large Hadron Collider to get helium leak warning system after breakdown

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11 December 2008

Around the World: Commission accomplished
Part three of a series on how the CESR storage ring turns into the CesrTA damping ring
Feature: Beauty lies within
New machine fixes the inner surface of cavities
Director's Corner: A low-energy gamma-gamma collider as a first step toward the ILC?
In the News – Making Europe a better place for research
In the News – LHC to restart in 2009
In the News – Universe's dark matter mix is 'just right' for life

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4 December 2008

Around the World: From SLAC Today: Marx Modulator Begins Testing in End Station B
Feature: IDAG prepares to review Letters of Intent
Director's Corner: Discussing the future – SLAC ICFA Seminar
In the News – Can triniobium tin shrink accelerators? Exotic superconductors promise savings.
In the News – Editorial: Friendly rivalry

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26 November 2008

Around the World: From CERN Courier: Viewpoint: SRF technology comes full circle
Feature: Understanding something new — interview with Makoto Kobayashi
Director's Corner: Progress on our Technical Design Phase goals
In the News – Scientists hope to discover secret world inside atoms
In the News – Physicists Receive Patent for Improved Cancer Therapy Device
In the News – e=mc2: 103 years later, Einstein's proven right
In the News – Dark universe debate
In the News – Rapping Physics

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20 November 2008

Research Director's Report: LCWS08
Director's Corner: The legacy of Edoardo Amaldi
In the News – MISPLACED MUONS EITHER MUNDANE OR MONUMENTAL
In the News – Scientists inaugurate world's largest cosmic-ray observatory
In the News – The Man Who Led the Second Superstring Revolution

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13 November 2008

Feature: Pixel collaboration
R&D on monolithic and vertically integrated pixel detectors
Around the World: Under pressure
Large time projection chamber prototype is about to start its first test
Director's Corner: Formalising the CLIC-ILC collaboration
In the News – Mining for Dark Matter, Some Go Wimp-Hunting
In the News – New Theories May Shed Light on Dark Matter
In the News – The search for dark matter might soon end
In the News – 3-D printer puts detector at your fingertips

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6 November 2008

Feature: From SLAC Today: ICFA Sharpens Focus on the Energy Frontier
Around the World: FLASH under ILC charge — almost
Director's Corner: The first Project Advisory Committee review
In the News – Should a photon-photon collider precede the ILC?
In the News – Future of physics 'under threat'
In the News – Global computer grid used by UK
In the News – 超大型加速器：国際リニアコライダー計画、政府が日本誘致を検討
In the News – Condensed-matter physicist to head DESY

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30 October 2008

Around the World: A tunnel for (module) dummies
Feature: Linear collider collaborations meet
Project manager Marc Ross reports from CERN
Director's Corner: Progress in the SCRF technical area
In the News – New Director-General for DESY
In the News – How to repair the biggest science experiment in the world
In the News – Large Hadron Collider inaugurated

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23 October 2008

Around the World: Asian ILC researchers gathered in Korea
Feature: From Jefferson Lab News: ILC Electron Source Gets Help from JLab
Director's Corner: 2^nd Asia ILC R&D Seminar
In the News – CERN eggheads find there's no mystery to the universal appeal of a good feast
In the News – CERN inaugurates the LHC
In the News – In search of a light Higgs boson
In the News – STFC gives extra money for grants

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16 October 2008

Research Director's Report: All common task groups are ready to start
Feature: SiD freezes its global parameters
Director's Corner: Progress and plans for ILC R&D at JLab
In the News – Stanford Linear Accelerator Center renamed SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
In the News – Where have our Nobel physics prizes gone?
In the News – Credit to scientific pioneers
In the News – Dans les coulisses de l'accélérateur de particules du Cern
In the News – Japan shows interest in hosting the ILC
In the News – Physics Nobel for matter-antimatter difference and symmetry breaking
In the News – ...

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9 October 2008

Feature: Higgs makes for exotic couples
Feature: 2008 Nobel Prize goes to particle physics
Director's Corner: Preparations for S1-global at the STF at KEK
In the News – ノーベル物理学賞日本人３人の受賞について
In the News – 官房長官、基礎科学を戦略的政策に　ノーベル賞受賞で
In the News – 【ノーベル物理学賞】政府、リニアコライダー誘致に前向き
In the News – 官房長官、巨大粒子加速器誘致に前向き…ノーベル物理学賞受け
In the News – Japan ready to host new 'Big-Bang' project
In the News – The California Aggie
In the News – Physics Nobel for matter-antimatter difference and symmetry breaking
In the News – The World's Next Big Atom Smasher
In the News – Successful test for CLIC
In the News – Labs and companies collaborate on pixel detector technology

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2 October 2008

Around the World: ILD community determines parameters for reference detector
Feature: World beam test tour at Fermilab
Director's Corner: Achieving tiny beam spot sizes with ATF2
In the News – Independent panel passes judgement on UK physics
In the News – Commentary: UK physics gets a health check
In the News – Britain's reputation as physics leader 'harmed by £80m crisis'
In the News – Editorial: Two decades and counting...
In the News – Le LHC aura-t-il un successeur ?
In the News – The “Magnificent Seven” of European astroparticle physics unveiled to the world
In the News – Galaxies on the move
In the News – Cern : inauguration du LHC maintenue au 21 octobre en dépit de la panne
In the News – El acelerador de partículas LHC. Avance científico y estratégico europeo

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25 September 2008

In Memoriam: Bob Siemann Has Passed Away
Around the World: Accelerator community communicates
Director's Corner: It's that time of the year again
In the News – LHC re-start scheduled for 2009
In the News – Hadron Collider Test in Alps Proves Successful

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18 September 2008

Research Director's Report: What becomes of the WWS ?
Director's Corner: The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge Laboratory
In the News – Le LHC, un succès européen à célébrer
In the News – Tromsø-OL eller partikler?
In the News – Large Hadron Collider e International Linear Collider a caccia del bosone di Higgs
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11 September 2008

Feature: From CERN: First beam in the LHC - accelerating science
Feature: First beam in the LHC
You can witness it even if you weren't there
Director's Corner: US National Science & Technology Summit
In the News – All eyes on collider as it comes to life
In the News – WHEN THEORIES COLLIDE
Why the Earth could end when the new collider fires up
In the News – CERN reiterates safety of LHC on eve of first beam
In the News – Fermilab physicists discover "doubly strange" particle
In the News – Are scientists about to explain dark matter?
In the News – Particle accelerator will benefit society, physicist Yuval Grossman says
In the News – What Happens to Particle Accelerators After They Are Shut Down?
In the News – Cool philosophies
In the News – Llega la hora de la gran colisión

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4 September 2008

Around the World: Thirty perfect cavities: liftoff!
European ILC-HiGrade project officially launched
Feature: From DESY inForm: Together We're Strong
An IEEE Conference satellite workshop starts at DESY
Director's Corner: High Energy Physics in Philadelphia — ICHEP 08
In the News – Physicists aflutter about data photographed at conference
In the News – Galactic supercrash proves rarity of antimatter
In the News – Two projects launched to make KEK more interactive with outside societies
In the News – Why the world WON'T end on September 10
In the News – The hunt for the Higgs steps up a gear

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28 August 2008

Around the World: Science Fiction meets Science Non-Fiction
Feature: A welcome cage
Large TPC prototype field cage arrives for testing
Director's Corner: Uniting Asian collaboration
In the News – L’après LHC déjà en ligne de mire
In the News – GLAST Observatory Renamed for Fermi, Reveals Entire Gamma-Ray Sky
In the News – Final LHC Synchronisation Test a Success
In the News – Landmark LHC Technical Reports published in the Journal of Instrumentation
In the News – CLIC here for the future

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21 August 2008

Feature: ILC community meets at LCWS and ILC08
Around the World: ILC goes Comiket
Director's Corner: FALC meets in Rome
In the News – Ace Quantum Mechanics—the Reality TV Way!
In the News – « Recréer les conditions de l'univers des débuts »
In the News – The man with the answer to life, the universe and (nearly) everything
In the News – Large Hadron Collider passes first proton test (subscription required)
In the News – Where particles, physics theories collide
In the News – Physics geeks go rapping

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14 August 2008

Around the World: First cryomodule moves into NML
Progress at Fermilab's ILCTA
Feature: LHC and ILC communications
Director's Corner: Spain's increasing involvement in large international science
In the News – Fermilab applauds input from neighbors
In the News – LHC synchronization test successful
In the News – Our work, in the name of science
In the News – Raum der Erkenntnis
In the News – Torchwood set for 'Big Bang' day
In the News – Europe's Large Hadron Collider tests the bounds of physics – and budgets

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7 August 2008

Around the World: Federation beyond policy difference
Around the World: LCFOA goes to Washington
Director's Corner: Greetings to Kaoru and thanks to Mitsuaki
In the News – CERN announces start-up date for LHC
In the News – Belle Discovers Three New Mesons
In the News – Tevatron Experiments Double-Team Higgs Boson
In the News – Known and unknown unknowns

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31 July 2008

Around the World: ECFA meets at DESY
Feature: Time to recover
Cornell University is testing a prototype injector for an Energy Recovery Linac
Director's Corner: New hope for Europe
In the News – Rapping the LHC
In the News – LHC : Confirmer la présence d'autres dimensions
In the News – The Extremely Long Odds Against the Destruction of Earth
In the News – First e+e- Collison at BEPCII/BESIII

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24 July 2008

Feature: Enjoying cool science
Around the World: From CERN bulletin: Start-up fever
Director's Corner: ILCSC approves new MOU at the Dubna meeting
In the News – Physicists brace themselves for LHC 'data avalanche'
In the News – Neuer Desy-Chef? Er verhandelt noch
In the News – Cern lab goes 'colder than space'
In the News – Editorial: An uneasy peace

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17 July 2008

Research Director's Report: The first IDAG meeting in Warsaw and common task groups
Research Director's Report: My tribute to Yoji
Feature: From KEK Director's Corner: Obituary: Yoji Totsuka, Former Director General of KEK
Director's Corner: A personal tribute to Yoji Totsuka
In the News – £65m for ‘cutting edge’ research centres at Darebsury campus
In the News – U.S. BUDGET:
2008 Supplemental Helps Fermilab By Putting Jobs Before Research
In the News – Wise move to advance research efforts
In the News – Opening up to Asia

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10 July 2008

Around the World: Damping starts this week
Feature: Rolf Heuer's vision of particle physics in Europe
Director's Corner: The proposed Russian ILC site
In the News – Spending plan appeases UK physicists
In the News – Fermilab celebrates its good fortune
In the News – Deux collisionneurs sont déjà à l'étude pour succéder au LHC vers 2025
In the News – L'ILC, collisionneur de prochaine génération
In the News – UK physics funding plans are approved

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3 July 2008

Around the World: Creating polarised positron beams
Feature: From interactions.org: Five million Euros to prepare Europe for the International Linear Collider
Director's Corner: The ILC-ECFA Workshop in Warsaw
In the News – As LHC Draws Nigh, Nobelists Outline Dreams--And Nightmares
In the News – Funding will prevent more Fermilab layoffs
In the News – Der Urknall von Genf
In the News – The Big Bang Machine / Cosmic building blocks / The particle menagerie
In the News – Beyond the Standard Model

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26 June 2008

Around the World: ILC physics subgroup meeting at KEK
Feature: Second sound sounds promising
Director's Corner: Integrating ideas at Dubna
In the News – No extra cash for UK physics

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19 June 2008

Around the World: From Fermilab Today:Citizens' task force delivers recommendations
Feature: New forum for promotion of advanced accelerator technology and scienceForum meets in Tokyo
Establishing an industry-government-academia alliance towards the ILC
Director's Corner: Hot off the press: Technical Design Phase ILC R&D plan
In the News – Stephen Hawking warns Government over 'disastrous' science funding cuts
In the News – Stephen Hawking: ministers’ £80m error puts science at risk
In the News – Nobel prize physicist in the making
In the News – Polish radio reports on ILC during ECFA2008 meeting in Varsaw

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12 June 2008

Research Director's Report: New US Strategic plan for particle physics recommends restored participation in ILC R&D
Around the World: Cryo crash test
Director's Corner: The P5 Report and its implications for the ILC
In the News – The Large Hadron Particle Collider Photo Essay

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5 June 2008

Around the World: CALICE collaboration is connected
Controlling beam tests all over the world
Feature: ATF shuts down for summer
Director's Corner: Critical electron cloud studies at Cornell
In the News – Physicists to target neutrinos: US switches focus from colliders
In the News – Reasons for optimism over US particle physics
In the News – ILC is best bar none
In the News – The hunt for 'God's Particle'
In the News – The hunt for 'God's Particle'
In the News – CERN: l'experience du siecle
In the News – PARTICLE PHYSICS: Does Fermilab Have a Future?
In the News – PARTICLE PHYSICS: Whither the International Linear Collider?
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In the News – US particle physics spared the axe

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29 May 2008

Around the World: From Interactions.org: Particle physics receives boost from $5 million gift to University of Chicago
Feature: Hail Cesr
Director's Corner: Establishing an Asian science communication network
In the News – A new Hawking paper
In the News – My hat's off to you
In the News – Tapping The Early Universe For Secrets Of Fundamental Physics

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22 May 2008

Around the World: From Fermilab Today: Students report on the importance, design of proposed linear collider
Feature: On the costing trail
Director's Corner: Common fund approved by FALC Resource Group
In the News – Code crackers wanted
In the News – Should the golden triangle get all the research cash?
In the News – Bottling the big bang
In the News – PHYSICS: Fermilab Sends Energy Department Final Plan to Lay Off 7% of Staff

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15 May 2008

Research Director's Report: The first meeting of the International Detector Advisory Group to be held in Warsaw
Around the World: Kamisama no Puzzle - Accelerator goes Japanese movie
Director's Corner: Globalising R&D
In the News – Will string theory be proven?
In the News – Nobel laureates petition Bush over funding shortfall
In the News – Acceleratori, non solo ricerca

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8 May 2008

Feature: From Fermilab Today: Fermilab welcomes CALICE to Test Beam facility
Around the World: Spin doctors
Director's Corner: Third International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders: apply now
In the News – Die Urknallmaschine
In the News – Editorial: How to wreck a nation's scientific credibility
In the News – Women to Watch '08: The Collider Queen
In the News – Helping to Power the Future
In the News – Column: Of myths and men
In the News – Comment: Facing the Black Hole

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1 May 2008

Around the World: SiD Workshop at Cosener's House
Feature: SCRF meeting establishes compatibility framework
Director's Corner: The art of decision making: STF phase-2 cavity choice
In the News – A Who's Who of the Unseen
In the News – The New Collider
In the News – Top physicist is urged to quit over failings, flaws and secrets
In the News – Comment: Physics - Bureaucrats meddle with linear colliders at their peril
In the News – Science cuts 'hit UK reputation'
In the News – Report slams UK's leading physics funding agency
In the News – MPs report blames Government and a quango for science funding crisis

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24 April 2008

Around the World: From Fermilab Today: Fermilab reaches milestone with successful cavity test
Around the World: It's ladies' night
Director's Corner: The value of science
In the News – Dr. Orbach addresses Fermilab in lab-wide meeting
In the News – Lawmaker seeks to restore millions in funds for Fermilab
In the News – Fermilab Meson Test Beam Facility begins testing detector
In the News – Extreme particle acceleration with lasers (APS April 2008)

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17 April 2008

Research Director's Report: Designing groups and detectors
Feature: The Open Day at CERN - My first encounter with particle physics
Director's Corner: The GDE to meet in Russia
In the News – Brian May attacks science research cuts
In the News – Science cuts: Funding chief has his say
In the News – Physicist for a day
In the News – Higgs First Seen in CMS
In the News – Peer review informed ILC pull-out

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10 April 2008

Around the World: Learning to accelerate
Feature: Collaboration between India and Japan for SCRF technology
Director's Corner: Implementing "internal" reviews for the ILC Technical Design Phase
In the News – Higgs seen at the LHC
In the News – Higgs Boson: A Ghost in the Machine
In the News – At 78, scientist hopes for proof soon that he was right about the Universe
In the News – Fermilab cited in suit to freeze Swiss accelerator
In the News – Physicist Says Particle Will Be Seen
In the News – Apocalypse Never at the LHC
In the News – Prof Peter Higgs interview: Smashing atoms at CERN and the hunt for the 'God' particle
In the News – Key scientist sure "God particle" will be found soon
In the News – CERN draws big crowd
In the News – Cuts threaten UK role at LHC
In the News – New Director Named to Lead U.S. Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab

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3 April 2008

Around the World: From SLAC Today: symmetry Magazine Launches New Online Format
Feature: Accelerator Advisory Panel to help Project Managers
Director's Corner: The ILC in Osaka
In the News – Call for Nomination for Next Director-General of KEK
In the News – Opinion Details: Let's Take A Chance
In the News – LHC set for July start up
In the News – Last Collider Standing
In the News – Word of the Week: Linear Collider

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27 March 2008

Around the World: Polishing the safety standards
In Memoriam: Sad news for the ILC community
Director's Corner: The next step towards the ILC — building a truly global team
In the News – The Big Bang: atom-smaching could uncover truth
In the News – Greatest experiment ever in particle physics nears countdown
In the News – Création d'un laboratoire international associé entre la France et la Corée
In the News – Belle experiment observes a difference in direct CP-asymmetry between charged and neutral B meson decays
In the News – Deux chercheurs de l'IN2P3/CNRS exerceront des responsabilités importantes dans la nouvelle structure de gouvernance du projet ILC
In the News – Local science labs forced to trim operations

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20 March 2008

Research Director's Report: We call for Expressions of Interest
Around the World: A different kind of Terascale
Director's Corner: Congratulations, it's a PAC - scientific oversight for the GDE
In the News – Letter: Difference in direct charge-parity violation between charged and neutral B meson decays
In the News – Particle physics: Song of the electroweak penguin
In the News – Japanese particle accelerator hints at 'new physics'
In the News – Flipping particle could explain missing antimatter
In the News – CERN opens its doors to the world
In the News – Q&A: Boosting UK science
In the News – Is the future of American science at risk?
In the News – Kibo typifies perils of international projects
In the News – Full steam ahead

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13 March 2008

Around the World: TILC08 beyond the agenda
Feature: Michel Davier chairs the International Detector Advisory Group
Director's Corner: The ILC Technical Design Phase begins at Sendai
In the News – Taking the Measure Of Electron Clouds
In the News – From high school student to particle physicist in one day
In the News – WMAP Reveals Neutrinos, End of Dark Ages, First Second of Universe
In the News – Dark matter could remain hidden

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6 March 2008

Around the World: SiD detector concept meeting at SLAC
Feature: ICFA Statement on Funding for the Linear Collider
Director's Corner: Science at Sendai
In the News – Deadline looms for science cuts
In the News – Particle Collider's Last Big Piece Set

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28 February 2008

Around the World: Meet Kazuko Toyomura
Feature: ILC meets the CLIC team
Director's Corner: A plug-compatible approach toward a truly efficient international collaboration
In the News – Barry Barish and the GDE: mission achievable
In the News – European Physical Society 2008 Accelerator Prizes
In the News – At the Heart of All Matter
In the News – Panel picked to review UK physics

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21 February 2008

Around the World: Wise counsel for Europe
Feature: Looking inside
Director's Corner: Contemplating large international collaborations
In the News – Laboratories future confirmed - despite jobs threat
In the News – Physicist Neil Turok: Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning
In the News – Today programme
In the News – '08 may prove to be a watershed year in large-scale physics
In the News – AAAS: Large-scale collaborations in physics

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14 February 2008

Research Director's Report: New timeline for detector activities
Feature: Accelerating past the finishing line
Director's Corner: P5 – What goes around, comes around
In the News – Love: You have 4 minutes to choose your perfect mate
In the News – From Russia with scintillation
In the News – Budget Cuts Undermine U.S. Role in Atom-Smasher Project
In the News – Director's corner: Laying foundations
In the News – More jobs ‘to be lost at Daresbury’
In the News – Fermilab scientists contribute to 3D chip development
In the News – New Cosmic Theory Unites Dark Forces
In the News – Wish List: FY '09 budget proposal ups physical sciences
In the News – UK confirms withdrawal from ILC
In the News – STFC Council Meeting
In the News – Fermilab rescue too late
In the News – IceCube Construction reaches halfway point

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7 February 2008

Around the World: India's RRCAT director tours U.S. laboratories
Feature: Together as one: ILD community meets in Zeuthen
Director's Corner: US Budget: Reviving the ILC R&D programme
In the News – Director's Corner: Tough news
In the News – Bush asks for more physics – again
In the News – Physicists Hope U.S. Budget Will Mean an End to Research Cuts
In the News – FACTBOX: Science projects hit by U.S. funding cuts
In the News – Death of Big Physics
In the News – Particle smasher may reveal extra dimensions

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31 January 2008

Feature: From Fermilab Today: ILC Citizens' Task Force forges ahead
Around the World: SiLC R&D collaboration in Turin
Director's Corner: Black December
In the News – US-CMS tutorials prepare collaborators for taking data
In the News – Journey to the centre of the earth
In the News – SLAC's Klystron Legacy
In the News – Science: Big Bang comes to the Alps
In the News – Shattered Illusions

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24 January 2008

Around the World: Attract a younger generation
Around the World: New SCRF test facility at Oak Ridge
Director's Corner: Common Fund
In the News – UK physics has 'brighter future'
In the News – CMS celebrates the lowering of its final detector element
In the News – Hopes for UK funding-cut reversal dashed
In the News – Research Councils UK launches review of physics
In the News – Special Report: The Future of Physics
In the News – Building the Next Generation Collider
In the News – Commentary: The end of frontier science?
In the News – Physics reels as the financial axe falls
In the News – Government was warned of physics crisis

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17 January 2008

Research Director's Report: The new phase on track
Around the World: A horizontal challenge
Director's Corner: Collective wisdom
In the News – Interview: Raymond Orbach Responds to DOE Budget Crisis
In the News – Science: Funding cuts threaten scientific research
In the News – Japanese Taking Up Particle-Physics Slack?
In the News – Budget Cuts Mean Layoffs at Two DOE Labs, End for SLAC Collider
In the News – Hitoshi Murayama appointed as the founding director of Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo

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10 January 2008

Director's Corner: Happy new (Gregorian) year 2008!
Director's Update: The path forward
In the News – Japanese particle physics in good health
In the News – Accelerator plans stalled after US and UK cuts
In the News – Editorial: Don't panic
In the News – US physics begins to crumble under budget strain
In the News – Solidarity
In the News – Batavia wants federal funding restored for Fermilab
In the News – 225 jobs cut at Stanford Linear Accelerator
In the News – SLAC is facing budget cuts, layoffs
In the News – Federal budget cuts to impact key programs at SLAC
In the News – Research funding should reward unpredictability
In the News – Reaction From Capitol Hill to FY 2008 S&T Funding Levels

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