Possible Clues:

• Michigan's position is above centre of plush environment
• After end of term, one place setting
• Note story with university setting
• Fifty per cent of military suppress European Union setting
• Cultural environment
• 'Surroundings, setting (6)'
• The writer's uplifting story, linked to high-class environment
• World cover-up by Military Intelligence on uranium?
• The sphere one moves in
• I recline in a Greek character's environment