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Abbots Bromley Horn Dance When:10 Sep 2007 (annual)Where:St Nicholas ChurchCost:Free Opening Hours:Starts 7.45am; dance continues from 8am-8pm The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is one of the oldest ritual dances still performed in England. Ostensibly held to commemorate the acquisition of hunting rights by the villagers of Abbots Bromley to the nearby Needwood Forest, the dance consists of six men carrying sets of reindeer horns around the surrounding villages. The horned men are accompanied on their travels by a hobby horse, a fool, a Robin-Hood figure (who carries a bow and arrow) and a Maid Marion. At 7.45am they turn up...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Nuclear physicist D. Allan Bromley, a Yale University professor and an architect of U.S. science policy during the administration of President George H.W. Bush, has died. He was 79. Bromley died of a heart attack Thursday afternoon, shortly after teaching a class, the university said. As then-President Bush (news - web sites)'s top science adviser from 1989 to 1993, Bromley pushed for sizable increases in funding for scientific research in a race to keep U.S. manufacturing ahead of Japan and Germany. "My respect for the job he did as science adviser to the president knew no...