First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an unfinished novel whose protagonist is loosely based on an MGM producer: " Though I haven't ever...
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Pushing at the limits of credulity
The Deep Hot Biosphere
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A work of art even greater than 'Cats': the human body
The Art of Genes
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Adventures in the way we see
Colour and Meaning
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A cold look at white heat
After Progress
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Liberate libretti, push for jobs
The MLA's new president sets out her agenda Opera - which is enjoying a revival of interest in North America - became a passion for Linda Hutcheon, the MLA's incoming president, in her days as a...
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Good idea, but poorly executed
Virtual think-tank Nexus bore all the hallmarks of new Labour. So why did this academic brainwave fail? asks Harriet Swain When virtual think-tank Nexus was set up three years ago, it seemed to...
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Two men and a brief to minister learning
Sean Farren tells Anne McHardy about his plans for NI education with Martin McGuinness I won't invite controversy for the sake of controversy, but if controversy is necessary in order to get...
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A day in a farmer's life, 2015
Fifteen years from now clever crops and robots will fill fields that were once home to mad cows and angry Greens. Steve Farrar peers into the future Early morning at Tomlin's Farm in Suffolk. Bill...
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THE challenge facing agricultural colleges
Agricultural colleges were still teaching students how to hand-milk cows when Alexander Ferguson enrolled for his course three decades ago. Today, agriculture students at Otley College, Suffolk,...
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The art of darkness
Humanities departments are now characterised by 'catastrophic disorganisation and disillusionment', outgoing MLA president Edward Said tells Tim Cornwell The Modern Language Association gathers this...
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Technology, TV and titles with colons
Rubbing shoulders this year with sessions on Chaucer and Balzac are papers on men and lesbianism, designing websites and genetics. reports Tim Cornwell Harry Potter makes his debut at the MLA this...
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The words of the decade, the centuryand the millennium
Can the British hold their own in writing English in the 21st century? Or will the Americans appropriate the language entirely? The opening skirmish in this war of words is already under way, as...
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A cure for monolingualism
Carlos Fuentes, the 71-year-old literary lion of Mexico, lives, when in Lon- don, in a Kensington apartment that has trebled in value, he says happily, since he bought it a decade ago. A generous...
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Richard III meets Benjy at a cash bar
With the humanities just beginning to consider all of what makesus human, Michael Berube looks at the hopeful condition of disability studies and invites you to have a drink The MLA affords, among...