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According to a European Commission (EC) report on the continuing transatlantic brain-drain reveals that U.S. universities and research jobs are attracting growing numbers of European Union researchers. The EC paper voiced concern that 75 percent of European Union countries-born U.S. doctorate recipients have no specific plans to return to the European Union (EU), and more and more are choosing to stay in the U.S. The most important reason keeping EU-born scientists and engineers abroad has been quality of work. Better prospects and projects and easier access to leading technologies were most often cited as reasons behind plans to work abroad.

The article reflects on the proliferation of presidential libraries in the U.S. Presidential libraries could serve variety of purposes such as memorials of presidents' papers, exhibition area and shops to sell presidents' memorabilia. In 1974, the Congress ceased to fund presidential libraries from taxpayers. No universities are willing to house a President George W. Bush library due to the mismanagement and controversies in his administration.

It is sometimes easy to forget what extraordinary events academic conferences can be. Ayako Yoshino, an English literature PhD. student at Cambridge University, remembers the first major conference she attended as an overwhelming experience. Fraternisation between sections is part of the point of the big conferences, and it makes some conferences more of a vital fixture on the academic calendar than others. For humanities academics, the Modern Language Association, is the major global conference of the year. Held just after Christmas, it is now seeking papers for its 2004 convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Reports on the allegations against four U.S. universities & colleges for falsifying academic papers to allow their athletes to compete in an athletics competition. Violation of rules of intercollegiate sports; Suspension of school sports officials for corrupt practices; Effect of the scandal on a national basketball tournament.