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...seem to censor much of anything. The Oxford Student is “a little more tabloid-ish, a little more edgy,” says Fenster. With such telling headlines as “Shit Happens” (over student council elections) and “Surrey to Sell Out” (when Britain’s Surrey University took an initiative to break away from traditional government funding), Oxford’s weekly tiptoes along the line of objectivity. After all, straight-faced, no-nonsense reporting is so Puritan...
...likely to respect local cultures than those tourists served by the mass market, but they are also, in their own way, valuable to host economies. Backpackers may spend less on vacation than their parents, but most of what they do spend stays local. Mark Hampton of the University of Surrey in Britain, who has studied tourism in Indonesia, estimates that 70% of backpackers' vacation expenditures go to locally owned businesses--like small hotels and restaurants--compared with only about 30% of the cash spent by "mass" tourists, who often stay in big hotels owned by foreign firms...
...support to stem-cell research. The country, with one of the most liberal policies in the world on the use of fetal and embryonic material, is already attracting prominent researchers from abroad and is likely to produce the first human clinical trials using stem cells. Last week ReNeuron, a Surrey-based biopharmaceutical company, announced that it had licensed a gene that would allow it to successfully stabilize human brain cells derived from fetuses and to proceed with treatments for different brain diseases. Eventually these could be used to combat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, diabetes, chronic heart and kidney disease...
...Asset Management, which was acquired by Merrill in 1997. After almost two months in court, Merrill settled, paying Unilever a reported $115 million. Unhappily for Merrill, the outcome of these disputes has caught the attention of some of its other clients - including the British drugmaker AstraZeneca and England's Surrey County Council, which are said to be considering court action as well...
...research centre, it is a real usability lab," said Jon Carter, the project manager for Orange at Home, an experiment in futuristic living led by British mobile phone operator Orange, in partnership with the Universities of Surrey and Portsmouth. (Orange is owned by France Telecom...