Ian Bond and his colleagues at the University of Bristol's department of aerospace engineering are taking a slightly different approach.

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Cambridge University issued its first bond.

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Nigel Bond, head of facilities at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, said land near the Leicester Tigers' stadium had planning permission for a multi-storey car park.

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"The change in the law means I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to afford my car, especially when I go to university, " said Miss Bond, from Fleet in Hampshire.

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In addition, the mere incorporation of biometrics into the payment system is likely to deter criminals, says Mike Bond, an expert in banking security at Cambridge University.

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"At his core he remains the same as he was when Ian Fleming started writing - he's sexist, he's misogynist, " says Christoph Lindner, professor of media and culture at the University of Amsterdam and author of The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader.

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Using computer simulations, David Clary of University College, London, has examined how water molecules bond together.

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Professor Ian Bond, head of the aerospace engineering department at the UK's University of Bristol, said his team had been developing a "bio-inspired" vascular system, based on the veins in the human body.

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As Peter Kenen of Princeton University points out, a single currency does not mean that Europe's bond markets will become completely unified.

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First would come a letter on Crane bond, luscious to the touch, inviting them to donate their papers and ephemera to Boston University, where he was the archivist of special collections.

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Last year, Harry Kat, a professor at City University's Cass Business School in London, and three others used American stock and bond data from 1970 to 2003 in thousands of simulations measuring risk and return on ten-year Treasury bonds, alone and in more diversified portfolios.

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Nine years ago Bushman left a job managing bond traders at Lehman Brothers, the last of her three stops on Wall Street, to take classes at Fordham University under the aegis of the New York City Teaching Fellows program.

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