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Chronicle of crises that's soft and noisy
World Disasters Report
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Travels on ancient sea lanes
Pre-Columbiana
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All eyes on the space race
Steve Farrar reports on the team of scientists striving to build the world's largest telescope and the anthropologist who is observing them When the multifaceted eye of the California Extremely Large...
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Running on a clean-up ticket
Italy's star anti-corruption campaigner wants to purge politics of big business. Unfortunately for him, a tycoon with a shady past is the likely next PM On the eve of Italy's general election,...
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One press pass that will open any door
Italy's next prime minister will probably be the richest man in the land, master of the country's three main commercial TV networks and of an empire that includes newspaper, magazine and book...
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A historical postmortem
The Wellcome Trust has been rounding up witnesses to record medicine's key events. Geoff Watts reports. The principle is simple. Choose a key medical event and invite the principal dramatis personae...
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Red light finds its way onto campus
Debt is forcing an increasing number of students into the sex trade. Matthew Chapman reports. Like most 20-year-old students, Sarah takes a mobile phone wherever she goes and it is constantly going...
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Laurie Taylor
" Higher education is now second only to catering in the proportion of non-permanent staff employed " - THES editorial . April Next. Ah yes. David Pringle. Do sit down. Now, I understand that you...
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Letter: Voting with their feet
On the eve of the general election, politicians are apparently worried. The level of abstention on polling day risks reaching catastrophic proportions for a country that boasts of being a model...
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Letter: Star sign of the times
The introduction of vedic astrology in India ("'Medieval' minister wants Indian students to be taught vedic astrology", THES , May 4) comes as no surprise to those who have watched the ruling BJP...
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Letter: Guessing games
Gareth Holsgrove considers the merits of multiple-choice questions ("What is the right choice?", THES , May 4) and in particular the problems of negative scoring. But there is another method for...
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Letter: ALiC at Goldsmiths
Mandy Garner's excellent article on the Action Learning in the Community (ALiC) project ("Going straight... to university", THES , May 4) states that some of our classes take place at East Greenwich...
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Letter: Archives, Anatolia and Armenia (1)
Access to national archives is not an automatic right ("Sealed Turkish archives support genocide claim", THES , April ). The UK and almost all western governments keep some national archives...
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Letter: Archives, Anatolia and Armenia (2)
The Ottoman archives in Istanbul are fully open, and archives from the Republican period are available in the prime minister's Republican archives in Ankara. The only archives not so readily...