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  1. Skilled workers 2

    Shadow Aviation and Shipping Minister Julian Brazier worries that some graduates "settle into jobs for which a university degree has little value" (News, March 17). Does he not realise that people...

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  2. Active promotion

    Presumably, Slavoj Žiyžek's thesis (Features, March 24) that "the threat today is not passivity but pseudo-activity, the urge to 'be active' to mask the Nothingness of what goes on" includes the...

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  3. Polite request 1

    The article "Shameless students put tutors in e-mail hell" (March 24) is correct in noting the increased informality with which students associate and communicate with university staff. While I...

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  4. Polite request 2

    The piece about students bombarding lecturers with e-mails implies that asking for feedback on exams is outrageous. A-level students are able to see their marked exam scripts. Why we can't have a...

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  5. Fired up or wired up?

    I was wondering whether Terry Eagleton in "Your thoughts are no longer worth a penny" (March 10) was using his tongue (in cheek) or reflecting while scratching his head with a rusty razor? Is the...

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  6. Testing times

    Animal testing lies at the heart of the recent clinical disaster ("Clinical trials and tribulations", March 23). The first stage of animal experimentation served only to fill heads with a mass of...

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  7. When is a neocon not a neocon?

    Francis Fukuyama has cut all ties with the ideology of his past. Stephen Phillips asks why his relationship with the Right has soured. Francis Fukuyama's critique of the neoconservative ideology that...

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  9. Pioneer tries to turn Aids tide

    Scarlett Epstein thinks her controversial research on local mores can help ward off Papua New Guinea's greatest threat. Anne Sebba meets her. In the hallway of Scarlett Epstein's Brighton flat, there...

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  10. An uncertain future without anti-Semitism

    Past persecution has not only failed to destroy Judaism, it has united a people in shared traditions and has reinvigorated Jewish life, argues Dan Cohn-Sherbok. I am a professor of Jewish theology at...

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  11. EU=MC2. The ideal formula if you want to go places

    The Marie Curie Conference allows junior scientists to network with European colleagues, says Harriet Swain. Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world You're young,...

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  12. Conference watch

    April. Top US philosopher Martha Nussbaum, whose award-winning book, Hiding from Humanity: Shame, Disgust, and the Law , explores the link between emotions and the law, will be in discussion with...

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  13. Instant expert

    Witchcraft and Masculinities in the Early Modern World, Essex University, Wivenhoe House, Colchester. April 21 to 23, 2006. Fees, £40 for full conference (£20 for postgraduate students). Full...

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