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  10. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who once had presidential pretensions: " The man was tall and so thin he seemed always to...

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  11. Trading bureaucracy for big business

    In the last in our series on sabbaticals, Sandro Macchietto writes in praise of the spin-off experience We launched the company Process Systems Enterprise in July 1997 and I took 18 months off from...

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  12. Beating the burn-out with a trip back to college

    Sabbaticals may be well established in academia, but when it comes to business, a period away from everyday office pressures - though often welcome - can leave the company executive high and dry....

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  13. Kiss your cousins goodbye

    Orang-utans, our third closest relatives, are barely hanging on as a species. Researchers trying to study them are also under attack. Aisling Irwin reports As the rope bridge across the rainforest...

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  14. Has the reading week had its day?

    Lack of funding is jeopardising university reading weeks, and even John Fowles's gift of his house might not help. Anne McHardy reports From John Fowles's house in Lyme Regis, you can look down onto...

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  15. Polar crime still unresolved

    A New York museum refuses to apologise for a racist experiment that cost the lives of four Inuit 103 years ago. Kenn Harper asks why In spring 1897, Franz Boas, an assistant curator at the American...

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