Crabby cabbies top list of aggressive drivers
Taxi drivers are the most impatient and aggressive group of motorists, researchers at the University of Teesside have found. Dave Woodhouse and Jonathan Auty surveyed 100 motorists to see how they...
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How do parents decide to bring up baby?
Medics at Leicester University are investigating how parents from different social groups decide to rear their children. It is hoped that the study will lead to childcare advice that can be tailored...
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Genome project works to improve dogs' life
Leicester University scientists and the Animal Health Trust are leading an international project aimed at sniffing out genes that cause inherited diseases in dogs. The Canine Genome Project should...
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Risky Americans beat Britons at start-ups
Americans are much more pro-active entrepreneurs than the British, research for the Economic and Social Research Council has found. Americans show a greater willingness to put work before family and...
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Legal aid for Lesotho's tourism industry
LEGAL experts from the University of Abertay Dundee are helping Lesotho, one of the world's smallest countries, develop laws to govern investment in its fledgling tourist industry. Researchers from...
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MS researchers call for volunteers
Medical scientists at Dundee University trying to solve one of the riddles of the disease are asking for the help of multiple sclerosis sufferers. They want MS patients who have suffered a relapse in...
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A coffee and the secret of your success, please
A team of researchers from four United Kingdom universities has landed the plum job of eating, drinking and sleeping for their country in a bid to learn the secrets of the worldwide hospitality trade...
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Early life affects mental health
Next Wednesday is European Brain Day. The THES gets cerebral A clear link exists between early life events and brain development, according to neuroscientists at Nottingham University. The...
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Giotto frescoes warning ignored
A prominent United States art historian was not allowed to speak at a conference on recently restored Giotto frescoes after he warned that the conservation work could prove damaging. James Beck of...
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Lecturers beaten at Kosovo demo
THIS WEEK's violence in Kosovo has dashed hopes of a solution to the Albanian language row that has split university education in the province and threatened reconciliation between opposing student...
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Property law to be foundation
RADICAL legal reforms launched by the governor of one of Russia's most progressive regions are taking shape with the help of university experts. The Saratov reforms, which include a controversial law...
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Open University's business school launches MBA programme in Russia
The Open University's business school has launched its MBA programme in Russia through a collaboration with LINK, a training organisation set up six years ago by senior academics from the...
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Belorus historian files complaint to police
Belorussian historian Uladzimir Yukho, of the institute of history in Minsk, has filed a complaint against the city's police for mistreatment. He was arrested late last month by riot police when he...
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Budget offers scholars a bounty
A BILLION-DOLLAR scholarship fund was the centre-point of a good-news budget from Canada's federal government last month. Finance minister Paul Martin's budget included a rise in research funding,...
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California looks at entry quotas
THE UNIVERSITY of California is considering breaking with traditional undergraduate admissions and automatically accepting the top 4 per cent of students from every school in the state. The plan...