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? = Review forthcomingARCHAEOLOGY- Archaeology as Political ActionBy Randall McGuire, professor of anthropology, Binghamton UniversityUniversity of California Press, £38.95 and £17.95ISBN...
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First Impressions competition: 10 April 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Pulitzer prize-winning depiction of a post-apocalyptic world:“When he woke in the woods in the dark...
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University of York - Strategic web networking urged
Universities should appoint "Facebook strategists" according to a paper on social networking websites being considered by the University of York. The "strategists" would keep up to date with changes...
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Birkbeck, University of London - Football's 'feet drain' examined
Have opportunities for young English footballers diminished because of the number of foreign players? This will be one of the questions posed at a one-day conference on player migration in football...
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University of Edinburgh - Posthumous bequest sets record
A doctor has donated almost £2 million to the University of Edinburgh - more than 60 years after he died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Australian Albert McKern graduated from Edinburgh in 1917...
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King's College London - School of nursing honoured
A London university has been declared "baby friendly". Dawn Primarolo, Minister for Public Health, handed over Unicef UK's first Baby Friendly award to the King's College London's Florence...
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University of Northampton - Arts study to take centre stage
A centre for research in the arts has been opened at the University of Northampton. The Avenue Research Centre, opened officially this week, will house a centre for contemporary fiction and narrative...
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Bath Spa University - Yorkshire lasses shine brighter
A northern accent can have a positive effect on how intelligent you appear to other people, according to researchers at Bath Spa University. Researchers Lance Workman and Hayley-Jane Smith asked 48...
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University of East Anglia - Indecent image controversy
A student who downloaded indecent images of children on to a computer in the university library has kept his job working on the student union's reception desk. The student, 26, who is studying for a...
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Cambridge and Exeter - Menopause triggers studied
Women may undergo the menopause to reduce reproductive competition between generations in the same family, scientists have suggested. Teams at the University of Cambridge and the University of Exeter...
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Sheffield Hallam University - Golden opportunity for journalists
Journalism studies students from Sheffield Hallam University are to work in the Beijing Olympic press office during the Olympic Games in August. Twenty-four students will travel to Beijing to write...
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University of Bath - Green-belt expansion discussed
A public consultation over controversial expansion into green-belt land has been launched by the University of Bath. The university has been given permission by councillors to develop about 40 acres...
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Cardiff University - Panda genome collaboration
Researchers in the Cardiff School of Biosciences will work with international colleagues on a project to sequence the giant panda genome. The collaboration will help scientists to understand the...
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University of Wales Institute, Cardiff - Computer gets big ideas in Welsh
A computer that "thinks" in Welsh has been created by scientists at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. A computer running the Konrad software, developed by Derek J. Smith, a lecturer in UWIC's...