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Re: Interesting Article
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Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:33:45 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, David Drew writes:
Hi,
Here's an article posted in the UK's Telegraph, where a Nobel-prize winning
chemist blames the rise in popularity of Lego over Meccano for the decrease
of the UK's scientists and Engineers. The man's obviously never played with
Technic. :)
[snip]

And this big news has finally filtered through to the Australian media - the
story appearing in yesterday's SMH:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0107/18/world/world6.html

Cheers

Richie Dulin
Patrician of Brick-Morpork



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  Re: Interesting Article
 
It also appeared in Monday's Melbourne Age in the Today section. They did mention the reaction to the original article by someone from Lego Uk. cheers SAB (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

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Hi, Here's an article posted in the UK's Telegraph, where a Nobel-prize winning chemist blames the rise in popularity of Lego over Meccano for the decrease of the UK's scientists and Engineers. The man's obviously never played with Technic. :) (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

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