Stephen P. Riley on Martin Kilson's Political Change in a West African State. The West African country of Sierra Leone has been much in the news this year. Civil conflict, the taking of British...
The National Trust
The story of affirmative action at the University of California is still continuing. The shot fired by the embattled farmers of the American Revolution was heard round the world. The Board of Regents...
POSITIVE LIVES An exhibition documenting how HIV has changed all our lives will be held at the Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, until February 11. The exhibition, the...
At the end of May, an intelligent Harvard student stabbed her room-mate 45 times before killing herself. She made international news. It was a perfect tragedy of high energies and ambitions...
Why does the public find a nuclear waste repository risky? Aisling Irwin on the new academic field facing up to a tangle of sociopolitical factors. The people at Yucca mountain in Nevada State, in...
The news about dropping mathematics degrees at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education should not pass without comment (THES, December 23). Under-recruitment to courses in which...
Consciousness and Cognition
The envious may see those with degrees getting better seats in the job market 'house' at their expense, but investment in higher education has benefits for the country's economic prospects too,...
Part six: the story so far . . . Despite Henry's apologies for following her, Toni hands in her resignation from the press office. Faced with such a serious threat to his well-laid romantic plans,...
Part six: the story so far . . . Despite Henry's apologies for following her, Toni hands in her resignation from the press office. Faced with such a serious threat to his well-laid romantic plans,...
A new current affairs magazine hits the streets next week. Simon Midgley canvassed opinion on its chances of success. Since the end of the second world war British journalism has been littered with...
The New Germany - The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty-Five - Anatomy of a Dictatorship - Changing Enemies - The Russians in Germany - German Politics 1945-95 - Germany Unified and Europe...
How long will it take for "Nolanism" to enter our political vocabulary? Lord Nolan's report has been widely welcomed outside the house if not in it and its philosophical starting point or watchwords...
Lise Meitner