2014年8月29日 星期五

2014-08-30 U.K. Spotlight


professor who pushed for democracy via demotic discourse  Financial Times
At a time when Greeks protest in vain against economic austerity, it is hard to imagine how a dispute over language once provoked deadly riots in Athens and toppled the government. For decades supporters of dimotiki, the version of Greek spoken by ...


   

  Lincolnshire Echo   
Bank holiday things to do in Lincolnshire  Lincolnshire Echo
The Fête on the Strait returns for their August Bank Holiday event this weekend, when the cobbled streets at the top of Lincoln's High Street are filled with stalls, arts and crafts, local produce and activities for little ones. There will also be live music for everyone ...


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  Mirror.co.uk   
Wild British teens in Magaluf: Sex site buying videos of young girls' sleazy ...  Mirror.co.uk
Shocking footage of British teenagers stripping off and performing sex acts at booze-fuelled holiday parties are being posted on a porn site. Hundreds of videos show young girls going wild on boats and in clubs, where they appear drunk and unaware they ...


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  BBC Sport   
Angel Di Maria: Man Utd agree British record fee of £59.7m  BBC Sport
Manchester United have agreed a British record transfer fee of £59.7m to sign Real Madrid winger Angel Di Maria. The Argentina international, 26, is in Manchester and was due to have a medical on Tuesday, after which the move - which will take United's ...


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Ice-bucket challenge: 30 of the best videos so far  Telegraph.co.uk
If you were in any doubt as to whether or not the media's annual "silly season" was yet upon us, wonder no more. The internet craze of summer 2014 features a roster of A-list celebrities and business leaders drenching themselves in buckets of ice and water, ...


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Straw Joins Commons Backlash Against Bercow  Sky News
The Labour grandee is backing calls for MPs to have a right of veto over the Speaker's chosen candidate for a key Commons job. 8:47pm UK, Thursday 21 August 2014. John Bercow House of Commons Speaker. Opposition is building to the Speaker's choice ...


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  BBC News   
Mouse memories 'flipped' from fearful to cheerful  BBC News
By artificially activating circuits in the brain, scientists have turned negative memories into positive ones. They gave mice bad memories of a place, then made them good - or vice versa - without ever returning to that place. Neurons storing the "place" memory ...


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Irresponsible gods  Financial Times
According to Yuval Noah Harari, a historian who teaches in the faculty of humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, what makes humans different from other animals is not reasoning, toolmaking or a capacity for morality, all of which are found to some ...


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Nani move to Juventus was blocked by Louis van Gaal - transfer roundup  GiveMeSport
It's been an up and down week to be a Manchester United fan by all accounts. On Saturday the Red Devils suffered defeat in their opening Premier League fixture at the hands of Garry Monk's Swansea City side, paving the way for fears that morale was once ...


   


Whatever happened to Ukip, the 'people's party'?  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
And then along came Roger Lord. Just as Nigel Farage and Douglas Carswell were patting each other on the back over their coup de théâtre (a little awkwardly, if reports from yesterday's press conference are to be believed), the 57-year-old local farmer ...


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