When The Lingo Of Learning Becomes Quite A Mouthful
The Age
Tuesday November 23, 1993
GOOD morning to those fine scholars who have just been awarded their doctorates of philosophy by La Trobe University. Please form an orderly queue at the library to read these theses: Angle-resolved ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy using synchtron radiation for the study of semiconductors.
A fission track thermochronology study of the tectonic and geomorphic development of the sub-aerial continental margins of southern Africa.
Purification of microsomal membrane enzymes of Petunia hybrida flowers.
Analysis of immune and inflammatory mechanisms in sheep bred for resistance to fleece rot and lucilia cuprina.
Protease and prevention of diarrhoea caused by enterotoxigenic escherichia coli.
ARGENTINE soccer star Diego Maradona has sent Fidel Castro the shirt he wore in last week's 1-0 victory over Australia in the qualifying match for the 1994 World Cup.
``To Fidel, the greatest, with all my care and friendship," Maradona wrote on the jersey, the Mexico City newspaper `Prensa Latina' reported. Argentine journalist Daniel Van Der Beken delivered the shirt.
Mr Maradona, above, was responding to a congratulatory message that Castro, the President of Cuba, sent him last month when he scored a goal in his first game back with an Argentine team after years in Spain and Italy and after surviving a certain number of drug charges.
Mr Castro is a renowned sports fan who played baseball well enough as a young man to be scouted by US baseball teams as a pitcher.
MEANWHILE, as they say, the semi-official Hong Kong China News Service reports that two mountain peaks which resemble the late Chinese leader Mao Tsetung have been discovered in north-eastern China. The two peaks, resembling Mao's head, were found in a mountain range in Xiuyan in south-eastern Liaoning province.
Other mountains in China's north-western Xinjiang province and near the southern city of Huizhou, near Hong Kong, also show a likeness to Mao. In Huizhou, local authorities and an armed police troop stationed in the area have tried to profit from the natural wonder by building facilities for visitors.
China is preparing to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the former Communist Party chairman, who died on 29 December 1976.
LOVE's labor is not lost on a billboard overlooking a busy street in the Canadian city of Vancouver. Erika Love, 33, is paying around $1725 a month for a four-by-five-metre advertisement which flashes every two minutes with the message ``Fine Arts Graduate Seeks Wealthy Husband".
Ms Love told a reporter: ``Personally, I love tall musclemen. They're fantastically sexy, but I'm willing to forgo that for somebody who is kind and generous."
The lady, who describes herself as a ``very sexy" blonde, said she wanted somebody rich because she is fed up with being a poor student.
The inquiries she has received so far ``sound genuine (and) really, really nice", she said.
IT MAY be of interest to travellers to learn that the chef of the Haven Cafe in Terrigal, New South Wales, goes by the name of Scott Free. Unfortunately for diners, he insists that they pay.
© 1993 The Age