Footballers not top of pay league
MOST professional footballers are not nearly as rich as we think, a national study has found. The popular image of the millionaire football superstar, such as Eric Cantona, hides the reality for many...
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Place in the sun
(Photograph) - Place in the sun: Peter Attwell, a final-year mature student at Plymouth University's school of electronic, communication and electrical engineering, has developed a mobile dish which...
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Sports scientists perfecting computer programme to improve coaching techniques
Sports scientists at Liverpool John Moores University are close to perfecting an innovative computer program that could greatly improve coaching techniques by analysing the performance of footballers...
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League table language gaps
I WRITE to correct the information on French and German at Aston University in your subject quality league table. French and German were submitted to the research assessment exercise under the...
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Tough veg muscle in
GARDENERS plagued by wilting lettuces and off-colour tomato plants are to get a helping hand from scientists. A team from Lancaster University's biological sciences department has identified...
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Holy overlooked
The Ayatollahs in Iran, Bishop Tutu in South Africa, the Dalai Lama in Taiwan and Bishop Carols Belo in East Timor all have religion. But no one knows why. Religion has a persistent and continuing...
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Bugs stop athletes in their tracks
A Pounds 100,000 research project at Birmingham University could help to reduce the high incidence of infection among athletes specialising in sports such as long-distance running, cycling and...
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Jobless dominate poll
CANADA'S three national education groups are working hard to read the entrails of the federal election speeches and find some mention of higher education in a campaign dominated by national unity and...
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Court backs sacked lecturers who refused to go to work
A Nigerian court has backed university lecturers fired by the University of Nsukka for their refusal to comply with an ultimatum to return to work after a national strike. But the university...
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Harvard women in tenure protest
Fifteen senior women faculty at Harvard are protesting against the university's decision not to grant tenure to Bonnie Honig, a 37-year-old associate professor whom her colleagues described as a "...
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Doc of the year on murder rap
A CANADIAN doctor who was recently named professor of the year at Dalhousie Medical School has been charged with murder. Nancy Morrison, 41, was arrested this month at Halifax's Queen Elizabeth II...
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$2.9m fine shuts down Soros
The Soros Foundation in Belarus has suspended all operations following the impounding of its local bank accounts to pay a $2.9 million fine imposed by the tax authorities. Ostensibly, the fine is the...
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Radical aristocrat in a fight for freedom
In the thick of a violent struggle between police and student activists leading an illegal demonstration in Minsk, capital of Belarus, historian Luba Luynevoi looks an unlikely radical. A strikingly...
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Incestuous pollsters v. 'lazy' press
French poll findings can no longer be published before the final round of voting in France's legislative elections this Sunday, but the polling institutes' resident political scientists are still...
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Smarten up those baggy notions now
Perhaps it lacks the ring of Hartley Shawcross's infamous cry after Labour's 1945 landslide "We are the masters now", but "We are the regulators now" might do very well as the leitmotif for the 1997...