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  3. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a work by an American journalist with earth-shaking claims: " This book is a slice of...

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  8. Why men want to rape

    Rape is a mating strategy, say two US scientists. Ayala Ochert reports on the bitter debate started by Craig T. Palmer and Randy Thornhill, who argue, below, that rape is an act of sex, not violence...

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  9. Gilded prize for stripper who peeled off the layers

    Flake by flake, Paul Cadman lifted paint from a table for his thesis on conservation techniques. What he revealed, writes Anne McHardy, was an 18th-century treasure Paul Cadman looked at the table,...

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  10. Mexican stand-off

    The student strike that has shut Mexico's top university for nine months turned violent this week. One person was killed as a group tried to reclaim the campus. Tim Cornwell reports A university that...

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  11. Higher channels

    John Davies looks for useful TV and radio programmes (all times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Let us consider two approaches to (visual) art on Sunday. First, on Channel 5, art historian Tim...

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  12. Time to speak up against the doom merchants

    Academics have a duty to help dispel the bunkum in scaremongering debates, says Steve Farrar Here is a vision of the future. Dark skies drizzle filthy rain on polluted cities. In the overcrowded...

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  13. No sex please, we're peckish

    Should the subject of food be served with an academic garnish, or is it best eaten with a dollop ofamateur scholarship? Anne Sebba reports on the emergence of a discipline Food studies, a popular...

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  14. Beware falling rocks

    Is Earth locked into an extinction cycle? Are we really under threat from a meteorite or asteroid shower? David Raup discusses the work that suggests such events might happen at regular intervals As...

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  15. For the record

    George Bain, vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, has condemned the 11-plus selection system for breeding "social apartheid". Professor Bain, speaking at a school prize-giving, said he...

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