Charles Clarke was quizzed about the shameless adoption of the term "independent" - the standard description, indeed the official description, for the private sector in the UK as opposed to schools that are state-run or "maintained".

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This led to the discovery of the top quark, the heaviest elementary particle seen to date and the penultimate piece of the jigsaw puzzle known as the Standard Model that is the best description physicists have of the basic components of the universe.

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