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The 55km Brenner Base Tunnel, being dug between Austria and Italy, and the 57km Gotthard Base Tunnel, under Switzerland, will greatly increase rail capacity for both freight and passengers between northern Europe and Italy, taking traffic off clogged Alpine roads.Plans to bring water to thirsty cities are also keeping bores busy.

But, as Sydney Brenner, who won last year's Nobel prize for medicine, once wryly observed, in biotechnology the one -omics that really counts is economics.

Dr Brenner and his colleagues explored the idea of using waste heat from computers as part of a thermostat-controlled indoor heating system.

Over the course of 14 painstaking years the team managed to map the complete nervous system of C. elegans, work for which Dr Brenner, too, won a Nobel prize.The scale of that work, though, hardly compares with today's quests to map the brains of mice and fruit flies.

They have played their part, but the real culprit, as the Nobel-prize-winning Dr Brenner observed, is economics.The genetics of maize allow the seed market to be controlled by a handful of big firms, including Monsanto, which owns the bt and glyphosate-resistance transgene patents.

Hordes died en route from hunger, disease and exposure, as they picked their way through the mountains, via the Brenner pass between Innsbruck and today's Bolzano.

Before entering Italy over the Brenner Pass, the crew must stop to switch the reflective panels at the rear with warning lights.

The mountains are bounded by the Rhaetian Alps and Reschenscheideck Pass (Italian Passo di Resia, west-southwest), the Inn River valley (north), the Zillertal Alps and Brenner Pass (east), and the Adige River valley (south).

Kitzbühel, Austria It's a little more than an hour from this exceedingly pretty village-based resort to the Tyrolean city of Innsbruck, positioned at the entrance to the Brenner Pass.

Back in 2002, according to the documents made public on Wednesday, an expert matched the handwriting to Susan Berman's manager and close confidant, Nyle Brenner.

Mr Adams's latest book is optimistically entitled "The Joy of Work"—and subtitled "Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-Workers".* "The Emperors of Chocolate", by Joel Glenn Brenner.