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  1. Jobs gloom

    In response to Julia Goodfellow ("Women told to find 'lab of their own' to succeed", June 4), I would love to have a lab of my own and a grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research...

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  2. Justified boycott 1

    London Metropolitan's vice-chancellor, Brian Roper, sees Natfhe's resistance to his attempts to impose a contract on staff "ill-considered" ("Call for global boycott of London Met", June 4). Why...

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  3. Justified boycott 2

    Brian Roper underestimates the extent of opposition to the new contract by describing staff who oppose it as "an absolute minority". The 387 London Guildhall staff plus their North London colleagues...

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  4. Stamp of disapproval

    I cannot comment on the artistic merit of Lucy Hibburd's design for new postage stamps ("GM licked", May 28). But they certainly will do nothing to raise awareness of genetic modification. If this...

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  5. Class and income

    Danny Dorling and Richard Austen-Baker are wrong if they think the purpose of a socioeconomic classification is to measure income (Letters, June 4). A good classification should measure the...

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  6. Sex and orientation 1

    Joan Roughgarden lists a number of phenomena that she feels sexual selection theory is ill-suited to explain (Features, June 4). There is not space to deal with all of her list, so I shall focus on...

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  7. Sex and orientation 2

    It is unfortunate that you published Joan Roughgarden's very biased review of Michael Bailey's The Man who Would Be Queen (May 28). Roughgarden has been part of a highly political campaign against...

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  8. Caveat emptor

    The government has quietly discarded the spectacular "graduate premium" figure of £400,000 plus, which featured in every higher education story for two years or more. Doubtless this is because it has...

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  9. Missing accent

    In an otherwise excellent review of David Crystal's The Stories of English (June 4), Duncan Wu wonders whether the author is being a trifle hard on William Wordsworth's claims to use the language of...

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  10. Important Romanian

    Steve Jones refers to "Henry Kacsir, a mathematical biologist who... inspired generations of distinguished geneticists, but because he didn't publish much he'd probably be fired nowadays" ("My...

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  11. English lessons

    There is little doubt that the standard of English is plummeting. But when a major organ of the UK academic elite publishes a headline that fails to distinguish singular from plural ("French media...

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  12. Laurie Taylor column

    Right. Candidate 10384. Maureen, the marks please and the average. Sixty-two, 65, 61, 64, 62, 61, 63, and 66. And the average is 63. Excellent. A pretty solid upper second. All agreed? On to...

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  13. Alan Ryan

    Alumni bashes such as the Princeton P-rade should be emulated in the UK because friend-raising leads to fundraising. Every year around this time, the Princeton P-rade takes place. This is the...

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  14. Leader: Adding mitres to mortar boards

    Universities should not need lessons from the business community on pursuing the public good. But when the Council for Industry and Higher Education, with senior representatives from both sides of...

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  15. Leader: A subject's plus signs

    This week's report on the health of UK mathematics is a success story that other sciences must envy (page 9). There may be no spectacular shows to compare with Venus crossing the face of the sun, but...

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