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Love thy neighbour?
European Journal of Social Theory
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Resolute contempt for fashion
Macroeconomic Dynamics
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Chasing the fuzzy dragon
Pandora's Hope - The Social Construction of What?
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House-husbands and techno-sperm
Men and Masculinities
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Why should a John be a Joan?
Hermaphrodite Cheryl Chase was declared a boy at birth, a girl at 18 months. Now she is fighting to stoproutine surgery on the genitalia of intersex babies. Kathryn Jackson reports Boy or girl? That...
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We learnt it on the grapevine
Wine degrees are booming, particularly in Australia. But what will happen if the market becomes saturated? Julia Hinde reports Mount Charlie and Charles Sturt might not be such familiar names as...
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GM Vines - turning less water into wine
When it comes to wine production, Australia is a small player in a vast global lake. But the bit player, with just 3 per cent of world wine production - one-seventh that of France or Italy - plans to...
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Scientists make better vignerons
A Melbourne University professor has found the perfect antidote to academic stress. When not running a hypertension unit at a city hospital or lecturing university students, Melbourne's physiology...
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Uniting the branches of knowledge
Steven Pinker predicts a blurring between science and humanities in the next century I predict the major development in the study of mind in the next decades will be an increasing "consilience", as E...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Channel 4's Deaf Century series reaches the 1940s and 1950s. Interviewees include John Harmsworth, the first deaf...
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Web wordsmith
Brooklyn-based cyber-theorist Alan Sondheim is taking over as virtual writer-in-residence at Nottingham Trent University's trAce writing community. Sondheim's books include Disorders of the Real and...
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Platform on a pedestal
It costs $8 million a year, but Lord Dearing's favourite example of online course delivery is going strong, John MacColl reports It is now four years since the newly appointed dean of Harvard...
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An elite sector key to meeting Labour's aims
At the end of Labour's svelte presidential convention, higher education finds itself in an ambiguous position. Universities, and particularly those that regularly top league tables, are central...
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Societies for the future
Learned societies that unite enthusiasts for subjects as diverse as botany and politics fear for the future (pages 8-9). Many are 19th-century foundations whose financial mainstay has been journal...