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British professor to pay $42,000 for vandalizing 27 cars in underwear and a suit jacket
A British university professor was ordered on Friday to pay most of his life savings in compensation for scratching “polite” graffiti onto dozens of luxury cars. Stephen Graham, an urban studies expert at Newcastle University, must pay £28,000 ($42,000, 32,000 euros) compensation after he scratched the words “very silly”, “arbitrary”…
Brits develop train cars that can resist terrorist bombings
LONDON — Researchers said Wednesday they have developed train carriages that can reduce deaths and injuries in terror attacks by using plastic-coated windows and measures to prevent flying debris. The New Rail research centre at Newcastle University analysed the carriages hit in the July 7, 2005 attacks on the London…
New study finds eight new genes for osteoarthritis
PARIS — The biggest probe yet into the inherited causes of osteoarthritis has turned up eight genes associated with this painful disease, bringing the tally of suspects to 11, The Lancet reported on Tuesday. Researchers led by John Loughlin at Newcastle University, northeast England, compared the DNA code of more…
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