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If you had to go by the headlines, you'd be forgiven for concluding that the Old World's best and brightest all look down on an intellectually inferior America. But the truth seems to be that Europe's brightest minds are concluding that the U.S. is the place to be -- at least when it comes to the sciences. Plainly it's something that worries official Europe, which explains a recent conference in Paris dedicated to the subject. According to a European Commission survey, more than 70% of the EU-born recipients of U.S. doctorates between 1991 and 2000 planned to stay in America....

Did twins doctor up doctorates with physics buzzwords? By Charles Arthur Technology Editor 09 November 2002 Is it a scientific hoax on a grand scale through the most subtle of leg-pullings? Is it important work with a deep significance? Or is it just jargon-filled research by aspirant PhDs that pressed enough buttons to be published in some scientific journals, although neither the authors or the reviewers knew what it actually meant? That's the burning question in the world of physics, where there are angry claims that Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff – 53-year-old French twins who starred in a popular science...