"We should be able to designate one or two centres to concentrate on this work and other centres can provide them with DNA so we can look at greater numbers of people, " Professor Adams told BBC News Online.

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"No one has done anything like this before, " says Macquarie University pro-vice chancellor Professor Tony Adams.

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"'Kicking ass' is acceptable vulgarity, " says Michael Adams, professor of English language at Indiana University-Bloomington and author of Slang: The People's Poetry.

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Kelly is working with Michael W.W. Adams, a biochemistry professor at the University of Georgia who is an expert in microbes that live in places hotter than 212 degrees Fahrenheit, the boiling point of water.

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But as a former university professor myself, I can say that in the years prior to this one, at least, being a professor was not the sinecure that Adams sketches in her piece, one of lazy summers, a class taught here and there, civil and collegial co-workers, and all that.

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Adams, a University of Texas finance professor, who has studied share lending, says arrangements similar to that of iShares where an affiliate of the fund's parent earns a cut have ended up costing investors in the long run.

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Michael Waller, a scholar and professor on the art of political influence who prominently features Sam Adams in his courses at the Institute of World Politics as one of the earliest and most effective of American practitioners of that art.

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