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Golden age of rising budgets is over, universities warned

Greg Hurst, Education Editor Universities have been warned to expect heavy cuts next year as the head of their funding body told them that the “golden age” of rising budgets was over. Fields for research funding would become...

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Marks & Spencer will be no bed of roses after years keeping families happy in the boardroom

Some believe that the Dutch are the Europeans who most resemble the British in outlook and attitudes, which might explain the longevity of Anglo-Dutch business alliances such as Royal Dutch Shell and Unilever.

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Savers need not suffer rotten returns

Savers need not suffer rotten returns in silence. So, these risk-free deposits are also return-free in real terms because savers' deposits will gradually have less purchasing power than the money they paid in. Zopa pays more...

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Creationism could be taught in schools under Tories, claims Ed Balls

Tom Baldwin, Chief Reporter Conservative plans to grant schools freedom from central control risk bringing the creationist doctrines of a “Religious Right” into the classroom, the Government warned last night. Ed Balls, the...

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The second outing of John Hurt

He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it again There's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itself...

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Mr Plint and the PreRaphaelites

The Victorian Society (West Yorkshire Branch) AGM will take place in Leeds Parish Church. Celebrating the 10th anniversary Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group Conference at Group Space, Ulster Hall, Belfast. To share some of...

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Book reveals 300 years of natural history art

Watercolour of a lion-haired macaque from the John Reeves Collection, c 1820s, features in the new Museum book Art of Nature 300 years of natural history art are brought to you in Art of Nature, a new book from the Natural...

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University of Calif. imposes $2,500 fee increase as police in riot gear watch over protest

Armed, campus police officers point Taser guns as they seize a bag from an unidentified student, after they refused to leave a meeting room on the University of California, Los Angeles campus on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. UCLA...

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Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin

By ARIEL DAVID ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2000 file photo, The Holy Shroud, a 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, is shown at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy. A Vatican researcher...

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Art collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers

ROME (Reuters) - An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum said on Friday.

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