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...word is rubbish, it’s in English. If it’s worthwhile, it’s in Welsh,” Wheet said...
...Michael Frayn was a schoolboy in the late 1940s, he and a friend "discovered the revolutionary tradition. We ran an unofficial Marxist cell, and I described myself as a Communist." Frayn's widowed father, an asbestos salesman and orthodox Laborite, was not amused. He declared that higher education was rubbish and that Michael should leave school to become a sales trainee. The son, more mole than firebrand, slowly undermined that plan and found his way to Cambridge, first as an army recruit sent to learn Russian, then as a full-time student. There he discovered, and was seduced...
...they have eight specimens. But there is only one skull and that could be microcephalic. The rest could just be Pygmies and that is even more likely now that we know people in the area around the cave are also Pygmies." Brown's response to Jacob's assertion: "Complete rubbish" and "sour grapes...
...European kids increasingly feast on a diet high in fat and sugar and low in nutrition - and too often that includes what their schools feed them. The junk-food problem was highlighted recently by British television chef Jamie Oliver, who describes meals served in British schools as "mostly rubbish." Poor diets have fuelled a big increase in the number of obese children; levels of childhood obesity in Europe have increased from between 5% and 10% 25 years ago to as much as 25% in some countries today. It may also contribute to bad behavior and learning difficulties. A study...
...improvement, according to Fitzsimmons, is to assiduously seek out low-income students—students who, for a number of reasons, would not otherwise consider Harvard—and convince them that Cambridge is an option. “It’s rubbish to say that ‘if you build it, they will come,’” he says. “Go to Dallas—Harvard and Yale are not on students’ lists.” That’s where the Initiative comes...