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Australia's aboriginal intake drops Australia’s vice-chancellors are to seek talks with federal education minister David Kemp after statistics revealed a fall of more than 15 per cent in...
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Latest UK news
Former parliamentary speaker honoured with statue A bronze sculpture of Betty Boothroyd, former speaker of the House of Commons, is to be unveiled at the Open University tonight. It will form part of...
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Visits to the European University Inst. Library, Florence
Deadline: 22/02/2002
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Opening the book on dissent
Despite living under a threat of death for over a decade, Salman Rushdie believes taking offence is all part of living in a free world. Nick Holdsworth reports from the 11th Prague Writers' Festival...
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If you hear a rumble in the jungle it's probably just the elephants talking
We might be a long way from talking to the animals, but according to Joyce Poole, when it comes to the African elephant, we are starting to understand them. Wachira Kigotho reports. Like the...
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Goebbels: a complex drama in two acts
David Barnett uncovers the conflicting theatrical pretensions of the Nazis' chief cultural thug, Joseph Goebbels. On May 10 1940, Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary, "At night to the theatre....
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Plight of the living dead
Imagine waking to find that you have mistakenly been buried alive. It is not a likely scenario, but Jan Bondeson says it probably does happen. There are certain themes of which the interest is all-...
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Darwin's denial of a lonely monk
Life Without Genes - A Monk and Two Peas
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Ancient remedies find modern use
Medicinal Chemistry
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who is also well known for poetry and short stories: "He was working on the edge of the...
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Man-made mountains to climb
Life at the Extremes
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Guided tour of body's dreamy spires
Introduction to Protein Architecture
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Scant search for the Maker
The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism
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Bottom line on cheap loo roll
World Economics
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Abstracted ancestors
Family and Community History