Dead comic insists he's not a racist Not content with attending his own 'wake', controversial funnyman Bernard Manning insisted on having the last word too.

Not content with attending his own 'wake', controversial funnymanBernard Manning insisted on having the last word too.

Manning, who died aged 76, ensured his legacy was properlyremembered by penning his own obituary, which appeared in a national newspaper today.

In it, he defends his particular brand of comedy, which manyslammed as racist, saying he "wouldn't have changed a thing".

He was rushed to hospital with a kidney problem two weeks ago andwas confirmed dead by a spokesman for North Manchester GeneralHospital yesterday afternoon.

Tributes flooded in as the news emerged, including from fellowcomic Frank Carson and Manchester United manager Sir Alex …

University libraries in transition

Major changes in academic journal publishing are forcing campus librarians

to make some tough choices regarding future library holdings.

Does your campus library subscribe to the journal that just published your article? Are you sure?

Rising journal costs, the proliferation of new journals, and new electronic journal formats are all making it more difficult for library serials acquisition programs to keep up with library users' needs and demands. This article looks at these problems from a librarian's perspective and explains the implications for educators.

Soaring Subscription Prices

Academic libraries across the United States and Canada are …

Alternates for US women's gymnastics team might be headed to China after all

The Chinese Gymnastics Association gave the U.S. women's team permission to train at one of its gyms in Tianjian, China on Tuesday, and the alternates are in the process of applying for visas.

"We are now working on making the final decision on the training location," said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics.

That was a change from earlier in the day, when Penny and national team coordinator Martha Karolyi said the alternates for the women's team _ Jana Bieger, Ivana …

State tourism advertising honored with awards

The West Virginia Division of Tourism has netted two first-placenational awards for television advertising and a media guide. TheNational Council of State Tourism Directors recognized thedivision's "Country Roads" campaign and presented two Mercury Awardsat a recent national travel industry seminar in Stamford, Conn.

The winning television campaign features John Denver's "Take MeHome, Country Roads."

The division secured rights …

A psychometric re-analysis of the interaction with disabled persons scale

Abstract

Drawing upon existing theory and research on attitudes towards people with disabilities, Gething (1991) used Australian samples to develop the Interaction with Disabled Persons (IDP) Scale, which reflects four key attitude components (e.g., fear of becoming disabled). The IDp scale was used with a sample of 231 Canadian management undergraduates to examine the IDP scale's psychometric properties; to test Gething's (1994) six-factor model; and to test MacLean and Gannon's (1995) two-factor model using confirmatory factor analysis. Overall, the findings did not support the six- or two-factor models. There was poor to moderate internal consistency reliability for most …

Correction: US-Lockheed Martin-Colorado

DENVER (AP) — In a story March 21 about the Orion spacecraft, The Associated Press erroneously …

Cyprus police seek vanished Russian spy suspect

Cyprus authorities stepped up their search Thursday for the 11th alleged member of a Russian spy ring who vanished after skipping bail but refused to answer questions about why he was granted bail in the first place.

Police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos said police have "no indications yet" that 54-year-old Christopher Robert Metsos has left the island or crossed over into its breakaway northern Turkish sector.

Metsos, who says he is Canadian, is wanted in the U.S. on charges that he supplied money to the spy ring that operated under deep cover in America's suburbs. He was arrested Tuesday in Cyprus as he tried to board a flight for Budapest, Hungary …