Exchange rate falls
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A new report by the Institute for International Education reveals a decline in international exchanges of students between the US and Europe. The report shows that Britain accounted for 7,786 of the 452,635 international students on US campuses in 1994/95, down 0.5% on 1993/94. The number of US students studying in Britain in 1994/95 was up 1.2% on the previous year at 16,812, but remained below the 1989/90 peak of over 19,000. Europe accounted for 67% of US students studying abroad in 1994/95, the lowest proportion ever as US students seek more challenging destinations in regions such as Latin America.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1995
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Dog gains 86,000 years despite lack of bones
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Evolutionary biologists at the University of California, Los Angeles, Carles Vila and Robert Wayne have concluded that dogs may be up to 135,000 years old. Vila and Wayne reached their conclusion after analysing gene samples from 140 dogs across 67 breeds and working backwards. The oldest remains of a dog so far discovered are estimated to be around 14,000 years old. However Vila and Wayne argue that the 26 different DNA sequences they discovered among the dogs is far greater than could have been developed over 14,000 years. Nevertheless critics have dismissed their findings as barely credible.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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Daydream believer
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Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, discoverer of hundreds of new species of ant, reveals that ants are always appearing in his dreams. He explains that one aspect of his dreams involves being on an expedition, finding ants in far away places where there are new species. The other aspect involves being unable to get to a rainforest. However Wilson regards dreams as nothing more than scrambled impulses originating from the brain stem. Wilson is passionate about the preservation of ecosystems and is astonished by the almost total lack of development of a field of environmental psychology.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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