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'Excellence of physique': soon to be a REF category (Image: Wellcome CC BY) The rhetoric of excellence has become all pervasive in higher education and beyond. We all aspire to excellence, but what does it actually mean? It's become an empty phrase that can mean anything to anyone - and that's its appeal. In the 1962 political thriller The Manchurian Candidate Laurence Harvey plays an

Kaposi's sarcoma. As if you didn't know (image: Wellcome CC0) Sarcoma is a relatively rare disease, making up just 1% of cancer diagnoses annually. The charity Sarcoma UK aims to tackle it, and its grants have an impressive success rate of 22-40% in recent years. What does it fund? Sarcoma UK funds research into a relatively rare cancer. Sarcoma affects almost 4,000 people per year, but