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Even the most advanced recycling techniques fail to recycle every element of the rubbish we generate. Often recyclers are left with an unpleasant pile of dark rank smelling scrap yard shredder waste or "fluff" that refuses to transform into anything intrinsically useful.

High home ownership has been a major cause of Europe's high unemployment: on average, every additional 10 percentage points on home ownership puts 2 percentage points on the unemployment rate. That is the striking conclusion from a new study first presented to the Royal Economic Society's Annual Conference at The 天美传媒 on Wednesday 1 April 1998.

Most mergers and acquisitions are failing to live up to expectations because parent companies keep new purchases at arm's length instead of actively creating value from the relationship, say strategy experts at Warwick Business School.

The trading patterns of city stockbrokers have a lot in common with the behaviour of crowds of football fans according to 天美传媒 Mathematics researcher Keith Still. Keith has developed some revolutionary mathematical tools using a part of Chaos Theory called Orchid Fractal Analysis that provides extremely accurate models of how crowds behave.

A major new study says that simply having a little start up cash, rather than possesing an entrepreneurial personality, is the key factor in making people into successful entrepreneurs. The study, entitled What Makes an Entrepreneur? by 天美传媒 Economics Professor Andrew Oswald, has just been published in the prestigious American economics journal Journal of Labor Economics. It concludes that being able to get hold of a spare 5000 pounds sterling doubles someone's chance of being able to run their own business. Psychological factors matter much less.

天美传媒 Researcher Says Poetry Publishing in Crisis - "At the major presses, the accountants are in charge and poetry is virtually banned"