First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you are asked to identify a book from its opening passage, is from the work of a recently deceased Nobel laureate about his native land: "All...
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Heartless animal or rational beast?
How can an animal rights leader who finds 'pet' a demeaning term argue that severely disabled babies should be killed? Kate Worsley meets Peter Singer, a philosopher who believes that not all lives...
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Britain at risk of botching its ABC
Half of the country's adults remain poor readers, but Diane McGuinness argues that the governments latest literary strategy is in danger of ignoring some vital lessons. After six years of research on...
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Talented artists or just con artists?
Was the recent Spanish holiday hoax by Leeds University art students performance art or just a stunt? Alison Utley reports Leeds University's fine art department could not believe its luck last week...
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'The worst pain came when trying to pee'
An ancient ritual due for sacrifice Mina's (not her real name) story is not untypical of the suffering that British girls go through every year. She is a 30-year-old arts graduate born and raised in...
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An ancient ritual due for sacrifice
Millions of women worldwide have suffered the searing pain and harm of clitoral circumcision. African film-maker Ladi Ladebo tells Tim Greenhalgh how he aims to show why the practice must end Ladi...
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At the cutting edge
In the first of a series in which top academics discuss their ground-breaking research, archaeologist Colin Renfrew explains how our genes hold the key to a linguistic riddle 8,000 years old The Indo...
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Glittering stars and their prizes
Brilliant objects of desire The star phenomenon got its biggest boost from Duke University, where from the mid 1980s the hiring of two huge names, Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson, shoved Duke's...
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Temptation and forbearance
Brilliant objects of desire Stars are often made by books. In 1995, Alan Taylor, a professor of history at the University of California at Davis, won a Pulitzer Prize for William Cooper's Town. The...
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Brilliant objects of desire
Ruthless competition between American universities to recruit top talent has seen salaries for the courted few spiral, prompting fears of division and corruption, Tim Cornwell reports Tom Bender,...
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'The boy walked for and with, under the come to a all ving in the dishes front. He don't cow, but the was when the worst watch keep all the sale Christmas'
Britain at risk of botching its ABC The above is an extract from a story read by Susie, a child taught by the "real books" method. Real-books teachers are taught that children can "discover" how our...
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Flower power
STUDENTS in the grip of exams are to take part in a trial testing whether their anxiety can be eased by a remedy made of flowers. Researchers in the University of Exeter's complementary medicine...
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Crime school
Over 60 per cent of youngsters excluded from school acquire a criminal conviction, research from the University of Southampton has found. The report, "Criminality of former 'Excluded from School'...
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Firemen's health
Fire brigades need to improve their sickness tests according to Bangor University's school of sports and physical education sciences. Many brigades use a simple step test to monitor fire fighters'...
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Living off the land
Following international concern about the impact of climate change, Bangor University's centre for arid zone studies is to investigate the lifestyle of three African communities dependent on communal...