'Please don't come around, we're having a bloody nightmare'

Article Abstract:

Two researchers discuss their work into the pressure felt by farming families in Devon, England, as a result of BSE, foot-and-mouth disease and the general recession. The research, conducted with funding from the Countryside Agency, revealed that while many farming families were experiencing levels of hardship, very few were suffering extreme poverty and none were prepared to give up their way of life. However, a report published in the British Medical Journal revealed that British farmers were more that twice as likely as members of the general population to think about committing suicide.

Psychological aspects, Farmers, Devon, England

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Cave life makes a shark of a shrimp

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A lecturer in physical geography at Loughborough University describes how a chance encounter with killer crustaceans led him to delve into the ecosystems found in caves, where he found that the food chain was topped by an unlikely predator. He describes what led him to identify a type of freshwater shrimp at the top of the food chain found in the subterranean streamway found in the Peak Cavern, England.

Shellfish, Shellfish Fishing, Shrimp, Shrimps, Shrimps (Animals), Aquatic ecosystems, Cave fauna, Cave animals

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Would Austria really want to hear the truth of its Nazi past?

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A lecturer in European and international studies at Loughborough University describes his involvement in the new Historians' Commission established in Austria to the plundering of the Jews in Austria during World War II. The initial scope of the investigation is detailed, as are the conclusions that the commission came to.

Austria, History, Jews, Jewish history, Jews, Austrian, Austrian Jews, Austrian history

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