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FINANCIAL TIMES

Just six years after e-mail and the internet emerged to become household worlds, the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of California at Los Angeles has launched an ongoing survey on the medium's impact on US society, politice and the economy

Dr Richard Dryden, a biologist art the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Plymouth, has designed a sailing rig based on the bone structure of bat and brid wings

THE INDEPENDENT

The Government has unveiled an £10m initiative to set up a network of mobile classrooms to take adult education into remote rural communities

Lucy Hodges writes that initial hype about David Blunkett's cyber-university has given way to doubts, with critics now asking whether students will sign up at all

THE TIMES

Gary Tanaka, an American businessman, has donated £ million to Imperial College, London - one of the largest gifts to a British university

MISCELLANY

Acts of domestic violence are committed every six seconds and 999 calls reporting attacks are made every minute, according to figures in a nationwide report published by the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of London. Up to 5.7 million incidents of domestic violence occur every year and half of them are seen by children ( Guardian , Independent , Daily Mail , Times ).