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Todays Word
overdrive, v. /see below/ [OE. oferdrífan = MHG. übertrîben, Du. overdrijven, f. ofer- OVER- 4, 5, 17, 10, 27 + drífan to DRIVE.]
What's in a number?
500 (Sunday Age)
The Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches are ready to settle their differences after nearly 500 years of conflict.
Headline News
VIC: Healy attacks Green Paper on PhDs (UniNews)
University of Melbourne Emeritus Professor Tom Healy has rejected Federal Government perceptions of the length of time postgraduate students should take to complete a PhD.SA: So heartless, says dance ban teacher (The Sunday Mail (SA))
A tearful teenage United States dance teacher; ordered to leave Australia; has taken a parting swipe at "heartless" immigration officials who refused her pleas to stay.SA: Drugs rife in schools (The Sunday Mail (SA)
South Australia's teenagers say illicit drugs are very easy to get in the schoolyard.VIC: Bush students face barriers: report (Sunday Age)
For every 10 city students attending university in Australia, only six rural people enrol, says a report. Despite the growth in mass higher education, students from isolated country communities are among the most under-represented groups in it.QLD: TAFE concerned over new training school (ABC)
The Gold Coast TAFE Institute claims a new tourism and hospitality college planned for the Gold Coast may not benefit the region.USA: Missed a lecture? Catch up online (BBC)
Students in the United States are being paid to take notes in lectures - with their work made available to other students online.UK: University students start BA in classroom (TES)
A Leeds school bridges the daunting gap between school and higher education for sixth-formersNZ: First Aust-NZ degree (ChCh Press)
Business students will focus more on independent work and fewer lectures in New Zealand's first trans-Tasman degree. The Christchurch College of Education's business-training director, Neil Barnes, said the new Bachelor of Management degree had been developed between the college and Griffith University, the eighth largest in Australia.USA: Court supports yearbook confiscation in landmark Kincaid v. Gibson case (USA Today)
An appeals court in Cincinnati sustained the ability of college administrators to censor student publications Wednesday, when it ruled to uphold Kentucky State University's right to confiscate the school's 1992-94 Thorobred yearbook because of "undisputedly poor quality."
IT News
Another delay for domain registration competition (New York Times)
Citing progress but no definitive resolution, the Department of Commerce and Network Solutions on Friday for the fourth time extended their target date for opening the company's domain name registration business to full competition.CD-ROMs selling to the world (The Sunday Telegraph)
A small publishing company near Newcastle has won contracts to supply educational CD-ROMs to almost 150,000 schools around the world.Fraudsters jam the Net (The Sunday Telegraph)
Almost one in every 10 Internet transactions is fraudulent, Australia's top consumer watchdog has warned.
Sydney 2000
Big party planned to celebrate Olympics countdown (ABC)
The Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) hopes 50,000 people will gather at Darling Harbour next Wednesday for celebrations to mark the fact that the Games start in a year's time.No cash compromise: SOCOG (The Sunday Telegraph)
Sydney would not suffer over-commercialisation by having too many Olympic sponsors as Atlanta did, IOC marketing director Michael Payne vowed yesterday.
News Specials
Revealed: the quiet woman who betrayed Britain for 40 years (The Times)
The most important British female agent ever recruited by the KGB is disclosed today as living quietly in the Home Counties with the full knowledge of the Government.Fossil-hunting family find new dinosaur (The Times)
Evidence of a previously unknown dinosaur, which scientists say is the oldest in the world of its type, has been found by a tourist on a beach in Skye.Clinton agrees to help (The Sunday Telegraph)
In A major diplomatic coup, Prime Minister John Howard has convinced the US to accept a far greater role in a proposed international East Timor peace keeping force.