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EU ministers prepare for stem cell debate European ministers were meeting this morning to decide whether to follow the lead of the United States and ban funding for research into human embryonic stem...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who originally trained as an architect: "May in Ayemenem is a hot brooding month" * Entries...
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Clear look at the past with eyes unclouded
Thucydides
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Plenty of nuance but not much excitement
Making Modern Science
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Electric view of business
Winning
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Truly mountainous feats of derring-do
Spying for the Raj
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Neighbour trouble neath the Bow bells
The New East End
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Tactical moves in a floral dance
Demons in Eden
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Pay battle to resume in 2008, union says
Blow to employers as union declares third year of pay deal is up for negotiation despite ballot. Phil Baty reports Lecturers could begin a new pay dispute in little over two years, union leaders said...
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Under-fire academic heads East for freedom
The London School of Economics academic reprimanded for telling students at an open day that they might be better off studying at London Metropolitan University has left the institution in protest....
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'A lot of interesting problems are at the boundaries of disciplines'
Nigel Shadbolt, new engineering fellow, sets his sights on interdisciplinarity and bemoans the 'info smog' age Engineering has a lot to learn from biology, according to Nigel Shadbolt, new fellow of...
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Engineering fellows
New Royal Academy of Engineering fellows William Bardo , director, Defence Technology Centre in Systems Engineering and Integrated Systems for Defence; Peter Cawley , professor of mechanical...