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Your report that your physicist completed her PhD in "only three years" ("The future of Britain", Real Life, 26 May) reminds me of other great achievements, such as players completing a football match after only 90 minutes and Shakespeare managing to write a 14-line sonnet.
Matthew Todd, Cambridge
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