A secondary objective is to comment on progress in our understanding of dental caries and its impact on young children.
Our conversation is interrupted continually as the professor is called away to look at finds or comment on progress.
The group acts as a "critical friend" commenting on progress reports, reviewing and advising on performance and identifying potential partnership opportunities with other organisations.
Correction: June 15 , 2001 Friday An article in the special E-Business section on Wednesday about the use of the Internet by mining companies misspelled the name of a consulting and software company whose chief executive, E. Russell Braziel, commented on progress.
Commenting on progress highlighted at the summit, attendee Karl Brown, a UC energy-efficiency expert, pointed to one of newest campus programs to roll out — the myPower building dashboard program — as "truly groundbreaking". Energy consumption has been effectively "free" to campus units in the past; now there's "a serious incentive to save," he said.
Ricardo Teixeira, the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation and the 2014 organising committee, refused to talk about it in South Africa, sticking to a line that, while São Paulo was "dangerously close to the deadline", he would not comment on progress until he had spoken to the city's mayor Gilberto Kassab – who was "away on holiday".
Commenting on progress during the pilots, a Defra spokesperson said: "We won't be giving out detailed information about the pilot culls while they're going on but a full report will be published after the culls have finished".
Commenting on progress against the outbreak and on developing vaccines, Jeremy Farrar, director of Britain's Wellcome Trust health charity, said: "This is certainly not the time for...efforts to be reduced.
