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PREFACE: This document constitutes the final report of the Casino Advisory Panel to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and discharges the Panel’s duties conferred on it by her.

Much of our report is of an historical nature, charting the progress of our work from our appointment on 1 October 2005 to the formulation of our conclusions and recommendations in this report.

The first thing our parents are usually told about us when we are born is what sex we are. From then on, we are not just their baby, but their son or daughter. Parents may already know what sex their child will be due to prenatal scanning. Whilst some parents want to know their baby’s sex before birth, others prefer to wait until the birth to find out.

Actually choosing the sex of our children has not, until recently, been a realistic possibility. New techniques of sperm sorting however, as well as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), are beginning to offer parents more reliable means of having a child of one sex or the other. The question is no longer whether we can but whether we should be able to choose the sex of our children.

Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: The Creation and Development of New Firms in Latin America and East Asia

This report presents the results of a comparative study of entrepreneurship in Latin America and East Asia. Entrepreneurship is defined as the capacity to create and develop new business ventures. The study focuses on the process of creation of new companies. That process is analyzed at three different stages: inception of the entrepreneurial venture, company start-up, and its early development. From the initial motivation to become an entrepreneur to the contacts needed to help solve problems as the business gets underway and grows, a number of factors affect the behavior of potential entrepreneurs.

The OCC Mortgage Metrics Report presents key performance data on first residential mortgages serviced by national banks, focusing on delinquencies, loss mitigation actions, and foreclosures.

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China's impressive economic growth over the past quarter-century has given rise to a new breed of Chinese companies with the motivation and scale to expand into global markets. Similar to Japan and Korea, Chinese companies are building on their export origins to become global players in industries ranging from electronics to automobiles. But success is far from certain. Chinese companies must overcome significant challenges to compete against established foreign companies in global markets, including within China.

At the end of 2006, Time magazine’s Person of the Year was ‘You’. On the cover of the magazine, underneath the title of the award, was a picture of a PC with a mirror in place of the screen, reflecting not only the face of the reader, but also the general feeling that 2006 was the year of the Web - a new, improved, 'second version', 'user generated' Web.

But how accurate is our perception of so-called 'Web 2.0'? Is there real substance behind the hyperbole? Is it a publishing revolution or is it a social revolution? Is it actually a revolution at all? And what will it mean for education, a sector that is already feeling the effects of the demands of Internet-related change?