At Oxford University, the students' union president, Kirsty McNeill, told BBC News Online the introduction of top-up fees would drag the university back to its Brideshead image of social exclusivity.

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Sixty percent of those who flocked to the site were abroad, in South America, Eastern Europe and Africa, places where people often have to buy top-up cards at corner stores for their cell service or pay online with credit cards (which they may not have).

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Amtech pointed out in a research note that a test Google search of each of the top 10 best-selling prescription drugs at that time turned up a slew of ads for Canadian online drug peddlers like CanadaDrugPharmacy.com and CanadaDrugCenter.com.

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