Tank slappers and the way to avoid them
A potentially fatal phenomenon that has been haunting motor- cyclists for decades could soon become history. Steve Farrar reports. Although he was just 30 seconds into the race, Paul Orritt's Honda...
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ILA alarm 'not loud enough'
Capita, the organisation that was awarded a £50 million government contract to administer the ill-fated individual learning account scheme, "did not shout loud enough" as potential fraud emerged, one...
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No power to halt BNP recruiters on campus
Greenwich University said this week that it was powerless to prevent members of the British National Party from recruiting students on its campus. Following reports that a Greenwich student was...
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SA institutions face cull
South Africa's universities and technikons should be slashed from 36 to 21 according to a rationalisation proposed by the government to dismantle apartheid-derived racial divides. A national working...
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New convener for Universities Scotland Bill Stevely, principal of Robert Gordon University, has been elected convener of Universities Scotland in succession to Lord Sutherland,...
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Council's progress report (December 2001) on proposal for traceability and labelling of GMOs
Brussels, 14 February 2002 Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning traceability and labelling of genetically modified organisms and traceability of food and...
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EU grants - guidance for administration and applicants
Brussels, 14 February 2002 Vade-Mecum on Grant Management (191 KB - 68 pages). [NB. This document, although first appearing on this website on 14 February 2002, is dated July 1998.] Grants account...
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Draft decision on future of research on coal and steel after expiry of ECSC
Brussels, 14 February 2002 Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the CounciL on the financial consequences of the expiry of the ECSC Treaty and on...
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Food labelling is 'worthless' without crop segregation, says Commissioner
Brussels, 14 February 2002 Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has said that without clear segregation of GM (genetically-modified) and non-GM crops in Europe, the introduction of an EU-wide...
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Moves made to give greater free access to research results
Brussels, 14 February 2002 Two major moves have been announced which should help to open up access to research information to those who need it, in an affordable manner. Firstly a £3 million (around...
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First view of a newborn millisecond pulsar?
Paris, 13 February 2002 Combining Hubble Space Telescope images with radio observations has revealed a highly unusual system consisting of a fast spinning pulsar and a bloated red companion star. The...
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Professions struggle to attract poor
Britain's poor appear to be shunning training for the professions, according to an analysis of degree applications by the National Union of Students. In medicine, a huge rise in the number of...
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A night out on medieval town
Jeremy Black wanders the streets of Britain's urban history - from the birth of towns to the rise of the hypermarket - and finds it an exhilarating trip. "You have only to look around the world today...
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Conceptual clarity but cock-eyed Coptic in hard-to-follow script
A History of Writing