A generation that has been reared on the ideas involved in the conservation of energy can hardly understand the position of science when Lord Kelvin began his professoriate.

It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.

Mac an Ghaill's (1988) study focused on the theme of 'resistance within accommodation' which was how some Asian and African Caribbean young people in his sample reacted to their experiences of racism at school and college.

Some years ago a group of hybrids and hybrid crossbacks named the Guyencourt Hybrids was introduced.