Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts will be open at the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge, until 4 October 2009.

BBC: Friday 11 September: Darwin special

The industry has produced aggregate annual net returns through June 30, 2011, of between 5.3% and 10.9% for funds launched between 2004 and 2008, the most recent funds that have invested all or most of their money, according to Cambridge Associates, which tracks over 4, 500 private equity firms.

WSJ: Private-Equity Firms Forced to Evolve

Data from the Cambridge Associates U.S. Venture Capital Index suggest returns of 4.41%.

FORBES: How VCs Deploy Operating Talent To Build Better Startups

Turning old into new We at the new Cambridge Technology appreciate your cautionary tale about the "old Cambridge" (" Feeding the Monster ", Sept. 4, p. 58).

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The most physical demonstration of this rivalry is, famously, the annual University Boat Race: one spring Saturday each year the Light Blues (Cambridge) and Dark Blues (Oxford) each send their finest eight oarsmen to row the 4 miles and 374 yards along the Thames between Putney and Mortlake in west London.

BBC: The Oxford versus Cambridge gloat race

One of Dr Weiss's former students, Sarah Parcak, of Cambridge University, presented data to the meeting on how a third period of cooling and drying, 4, 200 years ago, destroyed the Old Kingdom of Egypt.

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