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  1. One that got away from the fish laboratory ...

    I have turned my back on earning a living in the lab after almost seven years as a scientific researcher. The decision was not easy and has left me feeling like a lapsed scientist, just as I lapsed...

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  2. And one that stayed

    Andy Pitsillides is in his first lecturing post, teaching anatomy. He has contemplated leaving science but stayed - partly because he was offered the lectureship after his second postdoctoral...

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  3. RAE forces us to fudge

    Having read two pieces on "abuse" in the research assessment exercise (THES, July 3 and July 10), I feel moved to respond. I should start by pleading guilty to being one of those "managers" in...

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  4. Hot shots

    (Photograph) - Rolls-Royce backs 16 university technology centres in Britain, where teams are developing competitive aero-engines and industrial power systems, see page .

  5. First Impressions

    This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a colourful tale of Washington intrigue written by an unidentified source...

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  6. How genetics can be good for health

    A puree genius at his work Healthier chips: potato plants can be genetically modified to make firmer potatoes. When these are fried, they absorb less fat. This results in a crisper, lower-fat chip...

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  7. Time and notion

    He may have a Nobel prize, countless honorary doctorates and a viscountcy from the king of Belgium, but Ilya Prigogine's belief that time really does exist has alienated the physics community. Andrew...

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  8. Regrets, he's had a few ...

    Huw Richards talks to one ex-student union leader who is about to become president of his old university, Neil Kinnock Neil Kinnock was famously the first of a 1,000 generations of Kinnocks to go to...

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  9. Who killed fair reporting?

    Eighteen months ago six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was brutally murdered. The killer has never been found, so the media provided some suspects - her parents. The subsequent trial by TV so infuriated...

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  10. How I fell out with Fat Puff and Bonbon

    Alan Tormaid Campbell was a brilliant lecturer, a respected academic and a fine writer. So why, an industrial tribunal will hear, was he still a junior lecturer at Edinburgh University after 20 years...

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  11. A puree genius at his work

    Biologist Don Grierson (right) tells Alison Goddard about his race against the Americans to genetically engineer tomatoes and why his resulting tomato puree was such a success. But, below, in the...

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  12. People's jury out on science

    A puree genius at work. Tom Wakeford warns that the government must rethink the relationship between scientists and the public I believe that scientists have as much to learn about the needs of...

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