Britian Today

The JournalJanuary 09, 2004

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Navy drops charts: Royal Navy ships will stop relying on paper charts to guide their course after the Government invested pounds 29m in an electronic navigation system. Lockheed Martin won the contract for the state-of-the-art technology which is expected to improve navigational accuracy and safety. The system will warn captains of impending minefields and give extra details of beaches to aid amphibious landings.

Autism theory: Well-known historical figures including Socrates, Charles Darwin and Andy Warhol almost certainly suffered from an extreme form of autism, a leading specialist claims. It has already been suggested that Newton and Einstein displayed symptoms of Asperger's syndrome, a severe strain of the condition which usually affects men. Michael Fitzgerald, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Trinity College, Dublin, said: "People with Asperger's are generally hyper-focused, very persistent workaholics who tend to see things from detail to global rather than looking at the bigger picture first and then working backwards, as most people do."

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Soldier killed: A soldier killed in a "tragic incident" on a training range in Iraq had...

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