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• Closer than Kissing: Sarah Coakley's Early Work

  - 2008-01-01

  Articles discussed "God as Trinity: An Approach through Prayer," in We Believe in God: A Report by the Doctrine Commission of the General Synod of the Church of England (Wilton, Conn.: Morehouse-Barlow, 1987), 104-121. "Charismatic Experience: Praying Tn the Spirit,'" in We Believe in the Holy Spirit: A Report by...

  Tags: church, critique, England, image, Rom, University of Cambridge, women

• Top UK Hospital Commences Treating Cancer Patients with the TomoTherapy® Hi-Art® Radiation Therapy System

  - 2007-11-12

  MADISON, Wis. -- TomoTherapy Incorporated (NASDAQ: TTPY) today announced that Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, England has begun treating cancer patients with the TomoTherapy([R]) Hi-Art([R]) system. Addenbrooke's, run by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is the first National Health Service NHS-affiliated institution to install the Hi-Art system, an innovative technology...

  Tags: England, HARDWARE, patient, Scanners, therapy, University of Cambridge

• Flying quiet.(quieter passenger jet)(Brief article)

  - 2007-02-01

  If you live near a deafening airport, your prayers will be answered--in a few decades. Researchers at MIT and the University of Cambridge in England unveiled a design for a quieter passenger jet. The plane's shape creates greater lift, allowing it to land at lower--and quieter--speeds,...

  Tags: England, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge

• Mind-reading machines.(NEWS WATCH)(exhibition)(Brief article)

  - 2006-07-01

  Visitors to the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition are being invited to take part in research with 'emotionally aware' computers. Developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge, England, the computer program is connected to a camera, and locates and tracks 24 facial 'feature points' such...

  Tags: computer, England, PRODUCTIVITY, scientist, University of Cambridge

• England's large farms ready to expand.(survey of farmers)

  - 2006-06-02

  Almost 40% of England's larger cereal farm businesses are poised to expand following the introduction of decoupling--the separation of farm subsidies from production, according to a survey of farmers' intentions published by Cambridge University this week. Not content with increasing cereal and other combinable...

  Tags: cereal, England, MARKETING, survey, U.K., University of Cambridge

• Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World.(Book Review)

  - 2005-09-22

  Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World. By Katharine Scarfe Beckett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 276 pp. $65. Beckett studies the nearly five centuries from the rise of an Islamic policy (A.D. 622) to the first Crusade (A.D. 1096), looking in detail at the...

  Tags: Cambridge, England, theory, University of Cambridge

• Review essay: reform and social change

  - 2005-06-22

  Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660-1800. By Joanne Bailey (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii plus 248pp., $65.95). Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850. By Arthur Burns and Joanna Innes (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii plus 349pp., $70)....

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• Go for the curve.(Beyond the Norm)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-03-01

  Popular baseball wisdom says a fastball flies farther than a curve ball, but the sages of popular wisdom didn't have engineering on their side. Engineers at the University of California, Davis and the University of Cambridge, England found the opposite to be true: The curve ball...

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• offa's dyke between NATURE AND CULTURE

  - 2004-01-01

  AT THE END of the twentieth century, postclassical Europe basked in the warm glow cast by a revisionist historiography that emphasized the early Middle Ages' many accomplishments. This was quite an achievement for a period often disparaged as the Dark Ages. But in the decades after the second World War,...

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• Alan Howarth announces further GBP900,000 cash boost for best museums and galleries in the East of England.

  - 2001-03-15

  M2 PRESSWIRE-15 March 2001-UK Government: Alan Howarth announces further GBP900,000 cash boost for best museums and galleries in the East of England C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14032001 Norwich Castle and University of Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, are among...

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