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  1. Fearful not guilty 1

    It started with phone calls, every two minutes, followed by the unrequested pizza deliveries. Next, the paint stripper all over the car at three in the morning and finally (to date) the letter that...

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  2. Fearful not guilty 2

    The article by Laurie Pycroft contains several inaccuracies. First, the idea of animal research being necessary for medical advance is strongly disputed within the scientific community and has been...

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  3. Outclassing natives 1

    The article "Overseas students better at English" (March 3) repeats complaints that have been made for 30 years. Most high-achieving students who speak more than one language are likely to have...

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  4. Outclassing natives 2

    There is nothing surprising in the findings about British students' grammar and spelling. One could have predicted this from the reliance on word processors and the new language of mobile-phone text...

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  5. Science needs friends

    Lord May is not alone in noticing how US television portrays science in a more favourable light than in the UK ("It's science, Jim, but not as we know it", February 17). The sitcom Friends had an...

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  6. Professional shame

    David Southall suggests that the reason the General Medical Council struck off Sir Roy Meadow was a perceived need to redress previous failures of regulation ("Justice for a hero of hidden errors",...

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  7. Back to our back yard?

    Was I alone in struggling to find sympathy for Sir Paul Nurse ("Nurse turns on US as research is 'besieged'", March 3)? Only two years after leaving Britain for the US (presumably attracted by, among...

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  8. Sign only if certain

    Stephen Senn (Letters, March 3) overlooked a significant point regarding the publicised drug study collaboration of Procter & Gamble with Sheffield University. Authors and all scientists take the...

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  9. Online support

    Although I appreciated the positive reflections on my Quantitative Methods for Business text (Textbook Guide, February 24), I would like to make a correction. The book is supported by a website -...

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  10. Your thoughts are no longer worth a penny

    Information overload and endless means of communication have deprived us of the ability to reflect, says Terry Eagleton, who invites fellow Luddites to part company with e-mails and mobiles When do...

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  11. An espresso at three in the morning is just so last year

    US students have found a new family of drugs to give them a competitive edge, reports Stephen Phillips You don't have to frequent the dark corners of campuses to come across a student drug that is...

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  13. Do you want to live to be 800? This man says that you can

    A biogerontologist claims ageing can be reversed. Not all agree, finds Becky McCall I t comes as something of a surprise when Aubrey de Grey - a man who promotes a scientific theory that is dependent...

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  14. Summers and discontents

    Harvard staff's disillusionment with their ex-president wasn't just over PC politics. Their doubts over his frankness came to a head last month, says Stephen Phillips The resignation of Harvard...

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  15. EU network for public health genomics gets underway

    Brussels, 08 Mar 2006 Modern research in genetics and molecular biology offers new opportunities for improving public health and for helping the authorities tackle common diseases. It is important to...