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Birgitta Whaley, 30, earned her undergraduate degree in theoretical chemistry at Oxford University. She wanted to be a college teacher, but the only homegrown opportunities were junior research fellowships that she describes as "glorified post-docs." In February she started teaching at the University of California, Berkeley...
John Dupre, 33, an Oxford philosophy graduate teaching at Stanford, remembers one year when no British university advertised philosophy jobs. "It's a very depressive atmosphere in the British academy in general," he says...
...professors in Britain earn as little as $30,000 a year, while the U.S. average has hit $42,500, with academic stars pulling down $75,000 to $100,000 and more. Sir David Phillips, chief scientific adviser to Britain's Secretary of State for Education and Science and an Oxford professor in molecular biophysics, makes...
...English around the world, along with tea breaks, cuffed trousers and the stiff upper lip. But when the imperial sun finally did set after World War II, the American language followed American power into the vacuum. Key reason: the language has a rare forcefulness and flexibility. Even the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary last month incorporated such Americanisms as yuppie and zilch. Explained Editor Robert Burchfield: "Our language is changing slowly, and America is leading the way now, not Britain...
...recalled that he played with Jack years ago, the first time he had ever played outside and the first time he had seen a man knifed. Son was working on a clay sculpture of a skull, in which he inserted real teeth he got from a dental college in Oxford. As he worked on his porch, he recalled his years as a gravedigger, a job he did not want to quit "until my back started giving me trouble...