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BBC Radio 4Sex and the Single GirlFirst published in 1962, the book Sex and the Single Girl sold 2 million copies in the first three weeks and soon landed author Helen Gurley Brown the role of editor...
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The Pick - Anselm Kiefer: Il Mistero delle Cattedrali
Anselm Kiefer: Il Mistero delle CattedraliWhite Cube gallery, Bermondsey, London, until 26 FebruaryAnselm Kiefer's Hortus Philosophorum seems to be a pile of uprooted mutant sunflowers. They are made...
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Vanity, thy name is D108
"I won't take this lying down." That was the forthright response of Dr Quintock of our Department of Media and Cultural Studies to the news that his BA D108 course has been axed by Janet Fluellen,...
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For fair access, Oxford needs to drop the snobbery
Not being 'suckered' by posh veneer is the key to succeeding, Baroness Kennedy tells Simon Baker
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TV review: The Killing II
Sarah Lund is in danger of being upstaged by her sweaters in the hit series The Killing, says Gary Day
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Film review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Guy Ritchie's new film is a visceral, action-packed extravaganza. Davina Quinlivan enjoys the ride
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Tom Troscianko, 1953-2011
Tom Troscianko was a fun, intellectually interesting academic who could "turn a trip into an adventure".Born in 1953, Professor Troscianko joined the British Steel Corporation in 1970 as a lab...
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Put down the trowel, step away from the bricks and mortar
Critics attack campus building frenzy in the midst of swingeing budget cuts. Jon Marcus reports
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Appointments
University of New South WalesMichelle SimmonsA quantum computation expert has been honoured as New South Wales' Scientist of the Year at the NSW Government's Science and Engineering Awards 2011....
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Odds and quads
This brass desk set embellished with ammunition shells belonged to Lieutenant General George Francis Milne (1866-1948), Commander-in-Chief of the British Salonika Army during the First World War.
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Research intelligence - Oh Lords, please don't let me be misunderstood
EPSRC heads see no contradiction in peer review policy, but critics remain puzzled. Paul Jump writes
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From where I sit - Ethical engagement
In Mexico, shortly after Felipe Calderon took the presidential office in December 2006, he launched a major crackdown on the country's drug cartels. Since then, it has been estimated that about 45,...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of GloucestershireSave the planet (and some cash)Plans for young people to help with projects promoting environmental sustainability in exchange for a discount on tuition fees will be...
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The week in higher education
• An open letter to The Daily Telegraph on 7 December from nearly 500 professors lamented that the government's higher education White Paper would allow "private, for-profit companies substantial...