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The international community has given Iran a "final opportunity" to meet its nuclear obligations, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said.Straw met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki for more than an hour Wednesday. The pair also met Tuesday at a conference on Afghanistan in London."He (Mottaki) really needs to see this agreed position by […]

A study of 950,000 Swedish men has shown that taller men get a better education, a researcher said on Wednesday.The study, to be published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, could suggest short people are discriminated against as they are expected to be low achievers, said researcher Finn Rasmussen at Sweden's Karolinska Institute."The probability of […]

President Bush's call to break the U.S. "addiction" to oil generally drew a mixture of skepticism and hope abroad Wednesday, while the president of OPEC said such a change in energy policy wasn't possible in such a short time.The French daily Le Monde expressed doubt that Bush could reach his goal of cutting oil imports […]

"PTA", the acronym for the National Parent Teacher Association, conjures for many American adults fond memories of their parents attending parent-teacher conferences and baking cakes to help raise funds for the public schools that these adults as children attended. Memories are one thing but the National PTA is quite another. The national organization and its […]

The latest spying on UCLA's faculty by a conservative zealot resembles Germany's fascist anti-intellectual movement of the 1930s.Andrew Jones is a man on a mission. A 2003 UCLA graduate and former head of the campus Republican organization, Jones is waging a war against the twin evils of women's and ethnic studies. He is also taking […]

The Senate voted 58-42 to approve Bush's nomination of conservative judge Samuel Alito to a lifetime appointment to the nine-member Supreme Court. Alito, 55, has served as a federal judge since 1990.Washington - The US Senate Tuesday handed President George W. Bush a huge, but not surprising, victory as he heads into his most important […]

Living alongside growing numbers of students can be a nightmare for local residents and universities must take action, a report has urged.Queen's University in Belfast recently announced a crackdown on student behaviour following complaints of noisy late-night parties, rowdy drunkenness and vandalism.Six universities - Brighton, Canterbury, Leeds, Loughborough, Salford and Nottingham - were used as […]

Students think their lecturers are stuck-up, disorganised, unpunctual, unfunny, badly dressed and too desperate to be "hip", a poll suggests.The responses from 648 students found many thought academics were "snooty" and had "objectionable facial hair".But an Association of University Teachers spokesman said lecturers and students had a "healthy relationship".The survey, which asked students to vent […]

An alumni group dedicated to "exposing the most radical professors" at the University of California at Los Angeles is offering to pay students $100 to record classroom lectures of suspect faculty.The Web site of the Bruin Alumni Association also includes a "Dirty Thirty" list of professors considered by the group to be the most extreme […]

Georgetown University Law School students explain why they staged a protest to oppose Alberto Gonzales' speech defending government's wiretapping.On Tuesday, we stood and turned our backs on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The country's highest-ranking lawyer came to our school -- Georgetown University Law Center -- to convince the American public that the government's wiretapping program […]