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• Major Changes Announced to the Revision of the Oxford English Dictionary Online

  - 2008-03-13

  To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Christian Purdy of Oxford University Press, +1-212-726- 6032, Christian.purdy@oup.com NEW YORK, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the last eight years, lexicographers at Oxford University Press have been revising - in alphabetical sequence - every entry in the OED Online. It is the first time material...

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• Word of the Year: 'Locavore'

  - 2007-11-12

  To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Christian Purdy of the Oxford University Press, +1-212- 726-6032, Christian.purdy@oup.com 2007 New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the YearNEW YORK, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Are you passing up store-bought bananas for apples from the farmers market? Can you shake the hand that picked your carrots? If youre...

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• Essinger, James. Jacquard's web; how a hand loom led to the birth of the Information Age

  - 2007-11-01

  ESSINGER, James. Jacquard's web; how a hand loom led to the birth of the Information Age. Oxford University Press. 302p. illus. bibliog, index, c2004. 978-0-19-280578-2. $16.95. A This piquantly titled book indeed speaks to a great truth unknown to nearly everyone except the super-techies of the computer world: the...

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• Evidence Submitted To The Gowers Review Of Intellectual Property

  BNET - 2006-08-09

  The evidence cited below is not a response for a single firm. It reflects academic studies made using significant databases of large firms in the UK in both the manufacturing and service sectors. Very little was known about the role of intangible business assets in service sectors producing intangible products,...

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• Smiths Aerospace Allies with Universities for Technology Strategic Research Programmes

  - 2006-07-18

  FARNBOROUGH, U.K. -- Smiths Aerospace announces two long-term research partnerships with universities in the United Kingdom. The first University Technology Strategic Partnership UTSP is in aircraft electrical power and actuation research with the University of Nottingham and the University of Warwick. The second UTSP is in metallic and composite materials...

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• Look to the birds.

  - 2006-05-01

  Oxford University zoologists Graham Taylor and Adrian Thomas have outfitted an eagle with four miniature high-speed spy cameras and other instruments in a 15 g pack to learn more about its aviational secrets. An inertial measurement unit recorded details of the bird's aerobatics and transmitted the...

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• Crow bar

  - 2005-04-01

  New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides are famous for poking twigs under bark or into crevices to dislodge grubs. Only one other species of bird, the wood-pecker finch, uses an object for probing--a cactus spine. But are these cases of nature or of nurture? Does such resourcefulness come naturally to the...

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• Hornywinks and crowdy-kits

  - 2004-12-01

  Romanusque lyra, plaudat tibi barbarus harpa, Graecus Achilliaca, chrotta Britanna canat. If it is true that the study of English folklore has suffered excessively from the malady of unfounded speculation (Simpson and Roud 2000, vi), any attempt to venture beyond established facts might be regarded as foolhardy. On the...

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• 'Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest' by Matthew Restall

  - 2004-08-04

  Burnham, Philip Indian Country Today Lakota Times 08-04-2004 WASHINGTON - Hernando Cortez conquered the Aztecs almost 500 years ago. The event, by now, has achieved legendary status. We know how the Aztecs mistook the conquistadors for gods; the Spanish attacked and laid...

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• NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

  - 2004-05-01

  Change AgentsHow to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, by David Bornstein. Take a look at some social entrepreneurs-obsessive, mostly unknown folks who work quietly but move and shake with big ideas for creating social change. Stories of these ndomitable activists securing elec- tricity for...

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