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Fires threaten ancient site, Athens homes Blazes rage near Corinth, Vrilissia Brushfires swept through Greece again yesterday, forcing tourists to be evacuated from ancient Corinth and threatening homes in a northeastern suburb of Athens as authorities indicated that arsonists were to blame for many of the blazes.

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Bill to promote university research

University students and teaching staff are getting ready for the next bout of protest action against the government...

Bank robber gets 25 years

An Athens court yesterday found 29-year-old student Yiannis Dimitrakis guilty of taking part in a bloody bank robbery in January 2006 and sentenced to him to 25 years in prison but cleared him of involvement in six other raids.

Charges laid for ship deaths

A prosecutor charged three people with manslaughter yesterday over the deaths of two workers at the Perama docks, west of Athens, court sources said.

Daily life gets Greeks down

Greeks appear to be slightly more positive about their daily lives than they were six months ago but are still less optimistic than their European counterparts, according to a Eurobarometer survey whose results were made public yesterday.

Animal feed used to make coffee substitute

Inspectors from the Piraeus Prefecture said yesterday that they had raided a factory that used animal feed to manufacture a coffee substitute.

IN BRIEF

Three-member family killed in crash on Athens-Lamia national road : A family of three was killed in a road accident on the Athens-Lamia national road early yesterday...

Another machine stolen on Crete in sixth raid of its type this year : A National Bank ATM was stolen in Rethymnon, Crete, yesterday when robbers hoisted the machine onto the back of a truck...

Survey sample will have to be larger : The Cabinet approved yesterday a draft law that will require polling companies to question at least 1,000 people...

Evening quake : A 5.4 Richter quake was felt in the cities of Grevena and Kozani in northern Greece at 9.23 p.m. yesterday...

Byzantine plates : Greece has no immediate plans to hand over a collection of Byzantine silver crockery claimed by Bulgaria...

Illegal artifacts : A 54-year-old store owner in Tripolis has been arrested following the discovery of 86 ancient artifacts...

Counterfeit medicine : The National Pharmaceutical Organization (EOF) yesterday warned against the use of an anabolic steroid...

Body found : A 43-year-old man was found dead in his apartment in Kalamata, the Peloponnese, yesterday...


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President Karolos Papoulias...
EDITORIAL

Comparative advantage The announcement by the Education Ministry yesterday of new measures to boost research and development would normally fill us with optimism. Past experience, however, is rather sobering. Scientific and technological research, compared to the EU average, has been stagnant or on the wane. Greece's R&D spending stands at the EU average, nearly the same level as that of newcomers Malta and Slovakia. In order to prompt a social spillover, research must serve some long-term national strategy.

COMMENTARY

Ten commandments Do leaders shape their times, or do the times fashion leaders? This question has been bugging me for years. Contemporary leaders often say that «times have changed. The times of [Constantine] Karamanlis or [Andreas] Papandreou are over.» I wonder whether that's a way of shying away from the hard stuff, even though deep down they know that History will not be kind on them.

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