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Eek!
The tabloids will doubtless be excited to hear that the 50th birthday of Lord Plant, political theorist, Labour peer and chair of the party commission on electoral reform, was marked by the delivery...
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Odd Bods
Where can you buy a Relativity Mouse Mat, a pair of sterling silver earring replicas of Oxford's Radcliffe Camera, and a "bundle" of J. R. R. Tolkien goodies, all at the push of a button? Only in a...
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Saudi promises aid to Albania
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Islamic Affairs, Abdullah Bin Abd al-Mushin al-Turki, last week promised extensive aid to education in Albania. During discussions with Albania's education minister, al-...
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Return of the native
Rita Levi Montalcini lives in a top-floor apartment in Rome, five minutes walk from the university and the National Research Council. The grande dame of Italian scientific research is protected from...
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Plagiarist professor stripped of title
Else Kay Hoffmann, an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen's August Kroh Institute, was stripped of her doctorate last week because she copied other researchers' written works. An...
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Report reveals college warfare
A row has broken out over the administration of Llismatusarfik, the University of Greenland. A report by PLS Consult, a Danish consultancy, for the Greenland government, describes conditions at the...
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Oxford quizzed over doctorate to professor
Cafas, the academic standards campaign group, is to question Oxford University about a doctorate awarded to a Glasgow professor of paediatric neurology after learning that the book that formed his...
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Smiles better
(Photograph) - Anthony Clare gave this year's Happiness Lecture at the University of Birmingham last week. He may have failed to enter into the spirit of things completely since his title was "The...
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Volcano ash chokes planes
When Mount Galunggung in Indonesia erupted in June 1982 a British Airways passenger jet flew into its plume. The engines were choked by the ash and the aircraft fell thousands of feet before the...
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Last bastion falls to the box
The last sizeable westernised culture to be without television will get it next January -- and researchers will be there to observe the effects. A team of researchers from Cheltenham and Gloucester...
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Nirex urged to use peer review
The Royal Society has urged the nuclear waste disposal firm, Nirex, to open its scientific programme for the building of an underground radioactive waste repository in Cumbria to national and...
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Faith fashions economy models
A mixture of faith, fashion and prejudice is what Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has ultimately to fall back on when taking advice from economic forecasters, according to a study...
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Three-man race for CVCP
The contenders for the post of chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals threw their hats into the ring last week. Peter Toyne, vice chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University...