Spring in Paris, and revolution's in the air again
France's intellectuals have gone to war against the government. Jennifer Wallace reports. If you ask any wistful romantic about his image of the French intellectual, he will probably paint you a...
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Sleep easy with your baby right beside you
Prompted by a Lancet report, the press told parents that sleeping with a newborn raises its risk of cot death - when nothing could be further from the truth, says Ayala Ochert. Parents who bring...
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Thin gruel of cliche will never win votes
In refashioning the Tory Party, Michael Howard should look to its most durable leader - the 14th earl of Derby, argues John Charmley. The recent statement by Conservative leader Michael Howard of his...
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Think UM25, think sexy research, think tarmac
The annual gathering of the Travellers' Rest Group of emerging universities is coming round and Ted Prince must help his v-c win some headline glory. "I want the University of the M25 to be known as...
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The right's hijack of US science
Top scientists are alarmed by the willingness of the Bush regime - which deems a man who prescribes Bible study for premenstrual tension an expert on birth control - to place ideology above impartial...
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Spring in Paris, and revolution's in the air again
France's intellectuals have gone to war against the government. Jennifer Wallace reports. If you ask any wistful romantic about his image of the French intellectual, he will probably paint you a...
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Thin gruel of cliche will never win votes
In refashioning the Tory Party, Michael Howard should look to its most durable leader - the 14th earl of Derby, argues John Charmley. The recent statement by Conservative leader Michael Howard of his...
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Think UM25, think sexy research, think tarmac
The annual gathering of the Travellers' Rest Group of emerging universities is coming round and Ted Prince must help his v-c win some headline glory. "I want the University of the M25 to be known as...
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Does lying naked in a coffin help you to win the White House?
Both George W. Bush and John Kerry are Bonesmen, but neither will divulge the secrets of the Skull and Bones Society. Walter Ellis digs into history in search of skeletons in the closet of the next...
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Sleep easy with your baby right beside you
Prompted by a Lancet report, the press told parents that sleeping with a newborn raises its risk of cot death - when nothing could be further from the truth, says Ayala Ochert. Parents who bring...
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In the paper tiger's claws
After the Empire
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Blasts from a past to savour
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space
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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 work by a novelist admired by a prime minister: "Of course there was a Great House at Allington."...
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The qbits and pieces that make up the big picture
Magic Universe
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Driving forces who live in the fast lane
Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics