Diet plans must be nutritionally well balanced.SALES PROMOTIONS – Complex entry rules should be avoided.DISTANCE SELLING – Delivery period for mail order goods extended from 28 to 30 days.. It is well known that “deceased people” should not be allowed to serve food in shops. But did you know that the best test for oxygen was to apply a “growling spinster”?

A new collection of exam gaffes, published by the Institute of Biology, shows how some students can occasionally falter, and how the institute hopes teachers will use its archive of howlers as a salutary lesson for pupils.
Straightforward mistakes – such as the substitution of the word deceased for diseased, or a growling spinster for a glowing splinter – are hard to anticipate in advance. But, the institute says, students can learn from the mistakes of others.For example, few would want to take advice from the candidate whose instructions for an experiment read: “Put your finger into an agar plate, put it into an incubator and leave it there for a week.” Nor would many want to repeat the mistakes of the student who said “a 60-foot tree can break wind for up to 200 yards”; or the one who wrote that “after sewage effluent has been treated, it is used to make toilet water”. Another said that “a sexually transmitted disease is gonorrhoea, the penis b ecomes inflammable”.Sometimes the students’ misapprehensions are easy to understand, but sometimes examiners must be left scratching their heads.

“A drone bee comes from an unfertilised egg, therefore it has no father It has to have a mother in order to be laid.”. And there is no record of whether “alage range from single cells … up to phalluses 300 feet long” was marked correct.Correct or not, attempts at exploration of biological processes can lead to philosophical discoveries. One candidate had the revelation that “the cerebral hemispheres are where you would find your morals”.. A Mexican image of the pregnant Virgin Mary being used by anti-abortion campaigners at Arundel Cathedral on Saturday to inspire a prayer session for aborted foetuses, writes Andrew Brown. The image of Our Lady of Guadeloupe, which reproduces a vision seen by an Indian woman in Mexico shortly after the Spanish Conquest, has been brought to Britain by Roman Catholics in the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child.

It will cover almost the whole of England and Wales in the next two months.
The Virgin in this guise is regarded as the patroness of unborn children. For devout Catholic opponents of abortion there is no difference in principle between the human sacrifices of the Aztecs (which the Spanish conquest brought to an end) and legalised abortion in Western countries.Just as Christianity brought an end to the one, so the supporters of this icon hope it will bring an end to the other. The issue has become a battleground within the Catholic Church, where right-wingers believe that it should take precedence over almost all others, while the hierarchy in this country is less keen to see it dominate perceptions of the Church.John Salvi, the young American Catholic who was recently charged with shooting dead two receptionists at abortion clinics in Boston, has said that if acquitted, he wishes to become a Catholic priest. If found guilty, he hopes to be executed.Photograph: Edmund Sykes. Government inspectors face their first legal challenge from one of three schools they have accused of failing pupils All three schools had previously passed an inspection. The governors of Breeze Hill school in Oldham, Greater Manchester, have failed in a High Court action to stop publication of the inspectors’ report which makes the claim, but are considering further action against the school inspection body, Ofsted, whenit does publish early next month.
Breeze Hill’s head teacher, Bernard Phillips, says he was taken completely by surprise when he received a phone call almost a year after the original inspection in November 1993, to say that Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Schools was planning to visit because his school had “serious weaknesses”.The original report, compiled by a privatised inspection team on behalf of Ofsted, was very positive about the school.