Researchers build efficient lasers just 100 billionths of a metre across that may be used to make faster computer chips in the future.

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University-based training courses for secondary school teachers are facing an uncertain future, after hundreds were identified as “potentially unviable”.

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Unversity-led PGCEs under threat

Can American doctors say “No” to an aggressive and high-tech treatment they’re used to providing even when it turns out a less heroic and cheaper one works just as well? It’s an important question. The affordability of American medical care in the future will depend, in part, on the ability of physicians to simplify and economize, which are two things they’ve never been good at. With national health expenditures amounting to $2.6 trillion a year — 45 percent of it paid by government — prosperity and political stability may also be at stake. Read full article > >

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Why do cardiologists often pass up safe, low-tech treatments for chest pain?

A group of men decided against becoming suicide bombers because they wanted a “long-term future” as terrorists, a court is told.

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A group of men decided against becoming suicide bombers because they wanted a “long-term future” as terrorists, a court is told.

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The way annuities are sold is costing half a million retirees each year as much as £1bn in future pension income, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

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Annuity sales ‘unfair and opaque’

Thinking of cashing in on the Beyoncé baby boom? Too late! That train has already left the station, only four weeks after little Blue Ivy Carter was born . On Jan. 26, new parents Beyoncé and Jay-Z filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to protect the baby’s name — and reserve it for a future line of baby carriages, baby cosmetics, diaper bags and other undoubtedly fabulous accoutrements for the fashion-forward infant. Read full article > >

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‘Blue Ivy,’ the trademark: Feds move fast on rights to Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s baby’s name

Ludwig and I had the kind of relationship where I could ask him anything without fear of reproach. I questioned him about the rebellious rumblings of his youth, his wishes for the future and the state of his bathroom. Read full article > >

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Cuba people-to-people tours: So nice to meet you, Havana

Egyptians mourn soccer victims | The Op-Ed columnist Roger Cohen on Egyptian unrest | Facebook’s future.

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The head of the Student Loans Company will have tax and National Insurance payments deducted from his £182,000 pay package in future, ministers say.

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On the eve of U.S. Attorney Eric H. Holder Jr.’s appearance before Congress, a senior Justice Department official said the department cannot meet the deadline Republican lawmakers have set to turn over more documents on the Fast and Furious gun operation or be held in contempt of Congress .. Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole said that the February 9 deadline to submit all documents on the botched gun operation set this week by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, was “impossible to meet.” “We will continue in good faith to produce materials, but it simply will not be possible to finish the collection, processing and review of materials by the date sought in your most recent letter,” Cole wrote in a five-page letter to Issa on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Issa threatened to hold Holder in contempt if the Justice Department does not turn over the documents, which the committee subpoenaed in October. Holder is scheduled to testify before Issa’s committee Thursday morning. According to partial testimony released by the Justice Department late Wednesday, Holder is expected to say that the “gunwalking” tactic used in Fast and Furious is “wholly unacceptable,” was used in a “misguided effort” and will not be employed in the future. Holder is likely to be grilled extensively about the Phoenix operation , in which federal agents targeting a Mexican drug cartel allowed more than 2,000 guns to flow illegally onto U.S. streets and into Mexico between 2009 and January 2011. Read full article > >

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Justice official says congressional deadline for more Fast and Furious documents ‘impossible to meet’

For the past three years, promoters of shale gas and environmentalists opposed to coal-fired power plants have hailed the sudden abundance of U.S. natural gas as a bridge to a renewable-energy future. But natural gas has become so cheap that many energy experts and environmentalists now wonder whether it will turn into a long, bumpy detour. Read full article > >

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Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai thanks the British people for sacrificing “blood and treasure” for the future of his country.

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Ron Paul, well known as a physician, congressman and libertarian , has also been a businessman who pursued a marketing strategy that included publishing provocative, racially charged newsletters to make money and spread his ideas, according to three people with direct knowledge of Paul’s businesses. Read full article > >

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Ron Paul signed off on racist newsletters in the 1990s, associates say