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What does National Geographic consider the best island in the world? Tahiti? Capri, Italy? Lord Howe Island, Australia? Nope. According to its recent book, "The 10 Best of Everything," it's actually Nantucket, which takes the coveted spot in the…
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From the time he was a child, Carroll Shelby was into cars. After a brief but understandable diversion into airplanes during World War II, Shelby eventually made his way back to his passion, racing and later building some of the world's fastest…
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An economist who was taken prisoner during the second world war observed that market institutions were universal and spontaneousRobert A. Radford had, in some ways, a perfectly conventional career as an economist. He studied the subject at Cambridge…
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Britain is lagging behind other nations for higher education because of a lack of public investment in universities, according to research.
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Photo by Philip DeanLast week when I listed various reasons why you should not allow a computer to write the index for your monograph, I failed to mention one: That is, you might want to do it yourself because it’s potentially a lot of fun.I say…