From the Gulf Daily News:

"Kornberg's award wraps up a clean sweep for the US in the Nobel science prizes, with four other Americans taking home the medicine and physics awards earlier this week."

http://tinyurl.com/lvszt

Top 500 World Universities

http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006_Top100.htm

Airbus faces fresh hit over super-jumbo

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1889975,00.html

Pollard writes:

"Let's leave it at sending its young men to fight in Europe to save us from the Third Reich."

The very worst aspect of that regime, the carefully planned murder of Europe's Jews, was something in which the vast majority of European states rejoiced and collaborated in while Perfidious Albion held her nose and turned her back.

If Europe ever again becomes embroiled in a terrible conflict of her own making, I sincerely hope that Uncle Sam has the good sense to stay well away.

Yet more evidence of Europe's greatness

Fury as St Andrews honours Hezbollah backer

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2393935,00.html

"And, today, sending its finest to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight for democracy."

How is that helping Britain? Other than body bags containing young British men arriving on our shores on a regular basis, that is?

"If Europe ever again becomes embroiled in a terrible conflict of her own making, I sincerely hope that Uncle Sam has the good sense to stay well away."

Please! Can we have that in writing?

The Yanks are coming for you, Stephen.

Jazz.
Sigh.
Idjits.

Stephen,
Here's some history. America did NOT expressly 'send its young men to save us from the Third Reich.'
The sequence of events at the end of 1941 was this. Japan attacked Pearl Harbour. America declared war on Japan. Germany, as Japan's ally, declared war on the USA. America was therefore committed to fighting Germany.
The Americans played a massive part in the Allies' victory in the west.
But we should not forget others' contributions. Much - as an anti-Stalinist/communist - it pains me to say it, the Red Army's mauling of the Wehrmacht in the east made victory attainable.
We should remember our own efforts too. Without the RAF's victory in the Battle of Britain, there would have been no war in western Europe for the USA to enter.
When we hear Americans talk about how they supported Britain and the Londoners during the Blitz of 1940-1, we should remember that their country did not enter the war until many months later.
The war also gave the USA (undamaged by the conflict) a heaven-sent opportunity to supplant war-wrecked Britain as the major western power. An opportunity it seized with relish.
The Americans judged it was not in their best interests to intervene in a European war between 1939 and 1941. We must respect that decision. But it shows that Britain and America's interests are often different.
So it is now.
I agree with you that we're at the beginning of a kulturkampf with militant Islam. British society needs to be far more determined in confronting Moslem aggression.
That doesn't mean we should always follow America's lead.
The result of American policy in Iraq is that the US military is bogged down in a long-tern guerilla war in a largely ungovernable country. The outcome has been to hand hegemony in the region to a bunch of Iranian death cultists, potentially with nuclear weapons trained on Israel.
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld obviously haven't heard of the law of unintended consequences. So why are we supporting them?
We need to focus on handling our particular problems with militant Islam, rather than getting involved in another country's adventures.
That isn't being anti-American. It's about expressing doubts about the competence of Bush and his government - and wanting the British government to act in British interests.

Kevin51,
Thank you so much for your useful guide to World War Two. I wish I had had it when I taught the subject. I hadn't realised that Pearl Harbour was so important. My study of the UK and US Cabinet and ministerial papers of the time would have been improved immeasurably if I had had you on hand to guide me.
I must be very stupid, because I don't see how any of your witterings contradict my statement that US sent its young men "to fight in Europe to save us from the Third Reich". As I say, it must be my stupidity. I was under the impression that US soldiers came to Europe and fought against the Axis powers. I'll have to revise my impression.