So far, they've found 11,000 potential patents to contest in countries ranging from Poland to Korea, the U.S., and China — though they monitor just 65 of the country's roughly 7,500 endemic plants.
Play in the World Zonal Championships will begin here on Monday, with 22 countries contesting the Bermuda Bowl for open teams.
China and to a lesser extent the other countries contesting the Spratly Islands, appear to have been dredging sand from within atolls, behind the fringing reef, effectively reclaiming land from the structure itself.
But when China has bared its fangs, the countries contesting its claims have to live with the changed reality on the ground -- or, rather, on the water.
Nigeria's former president, General Ibrahim Babangida, has announced that he will contest the country's presidential election to be held in April next year.
Exactly a month before polling day, the largest of the parties that had been refusing to contest the country's controversial general election, due on January 8th 2008, called off its boycott.
But in a chaotic day — though not really all that much more turbulent than any other day here — a part of Egypt shrugged off a dictator's whims, assassins' bullets and fears of foreigners' hands to contest the country's future in an election that finally, for once, felt as if it meant something.
Contesting from the country's northwest constituency, the largest of Italy's five electoral districts, Bignami hopes to win one of 72 seats available to Italian representatives.
Surprisingly, developed countries are contesting all of these points in the WTO negotiations.
The Taliban has rarely been stronger — controlling or contesting 45percentt of the country's territory — or more menacing.
