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• A month of discoveries: Black History month brings out the best publishers have to offer

  - 2008-02-21

  The African American National Biography, $995, Oxford University Press, USA, February 2008, ISBN-10: 0195160193, ISBN-13: 978-0195160192, pp. 5568. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the not-too-distant past, most publishers released nearly all of the few books they had about or of interest to Black people just in time for Black History...

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• Oxford University uses Facebook photos as proof for disciplinary hearings

  - 2007-07-19

  AFP — LONDON - Just who do you want seeing your photos on Facebook, one of the fastest-rising of the world’s new social networking websites? If you’re a student celebrating the end of exams with traditional end-of-term high-jinks, the answer just might not include your college disciplinary committee. Just...

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• Take a Chill Pill - the Oxford English Dictionary Adds 2,700 Entries!

  - 2007-07-03

  To: FEATURES EDITORSContact: Don Myers of Oxford University Press, +1-212-726-6057 NEW YORK, July 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New words enter the English language every day, and dictionary publishers are constantly struggling to keep up. The editors of the Oxford English Dictionary Online (http://www.oed.com) update the internet version of their 20- volume...

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• Cameron 'smoked cannabis' claim DRUGS: NEW ALLEGATIONS DRUGS: NEW

  - 2007-02-11

  DAVID CAMERON is facing fresh allegations of drugtaking after reports emerged he smoked cannabis when studying at Eton. A Sunday newspaper has reported today that school authorities called in police after suspicions that pupils had smoked the drug. Cameron, then 15, was confined to school grounds...

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• MacArthur Foundation Awards $3M to OpenNet Initiative and Harvard Law's Berkman Center to Advance Global Internet Filtering Research

  - 2006-01-26

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $3 million to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and its partners to advance their collaborative study of state-sponsored Internet filtering worldwide through the OpenNet Initiative. In the past two...

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• Introduction to Applied Statistics: A Modelling Approach (2nd ed.).(Brief Article)(Book Review)

  - 2005-08-01

  Introduction to Applied Statistics: A Modelling Approach (2nd ed.). J. K. LINDSEY. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, xiv + 321 pp., $119.50 H, ISBN: 0-19-852894-9; $54.50 P, ISBN: 0-19-852895-7. The second edition of this book, like the first published in 1995, ...

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• Award-winning Oxford Reference Online' is now available through BT click&buy.

  - 2005-04-27

  M2 PRESSWIRE-27 April 2005-BT click&buy: Award-winning Oxford Reference Online' is now available through BT click&buyC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27042005 BT ePayments today announces that members of its online payments service, BT click&buy, can now subscribe to the multiple award-winning Oxford...

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• CIDA/Media Advisroy: Minister Carroll to Speak at Global Economic Governance Programme Meeting on Aid Effectiveness And Donor Harmonization.

  - 2005-03-08

  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Mar 8, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX The Honourable Aileen Carroll, Minister of International Cooperation, will address participants, including officials from Kenya, Afghanistan, and Uganda, at a meeting of the Global Economic Governance Programme on Wednesday, March 9, 2005. Minister Carroll will speak...

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• World Security Organisation proposed at Oxford University talk.

  - 2005-02-09

  M2 PRESSWIRE-9 February 2005-MI2G: World Security Organisation proposed at Oxford University talkC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02082005 London, UK - mi2g's Chairman, DK Matai, will propose a World Security Organisation dedicated to countering terrorism and organised crime in the 21st century at...

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• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography goes online with Verity.

  - 2004-09-23

  M2 PRESSWIRE-23 September 2004-Verity: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography goes online with VerityC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09232004 Verity, a leading provider of enterprise software that enables organisations to maximise the return on their intellectual capital investment, announces that Oxford University...

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