'Bitter' feud stalls hunt for CJD cure
Attempts to find a cure for the fatal brain disease CJD are being hampered by a longstanding feud between two academic teams. The CJD surveillance unit at Edinburgh University and the Medical...
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Access universities with empty seats pay the price in Hefce cuts
Some of the leading access universities in England are braced for major cuts after this year's funding allocations, signalling the increasingly cut-throat market for extra student places....
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What enriches the poor and liberates the oppressed?
Globalisation - so stop protesting and learn to love it, argues Jagdish Bhagwati. With all the noise made by vast numbers of anti-globalisers, most politicians may be forgiven for thinking that this...
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Night of the Ig wannabes
Some dream of the Nobel, some the letters FRS, but for those who really want to cut a dash in science only one award counts - an Ig Nobel. Geoff Watts surveys a cultural phenomenon. Hallelujah! You'...
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Passionate observer who wants everyone to feel the earth move
A boyhood fascination with the natural world sparked Richard Fortey's interest in the geologies that have shaped human development. Harriet Swain meets a hands-on adventurer. Richard Fortey leads the...
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Now bring on the big boo-word
Home was Windsor Castle, school was Eton and Freya Stark was his godmother, so how did Malise Ruthven get his fascination with Islam and fundamentalism? Anthony Freeman finds out No religion...
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What enriches the poor and liberates the oppressed?
Globalisation - so stop protesting and learn to love it, argues Jagdish Bhagwati. With all the noise made by vast numbers of anti-globalisers, most politicians may be forgiven for thinking that this...
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Night of the Ig wannabes
Some dream of the Nobel, some the letters FRS, but for those who really want to cut a dash in science only one award counts - an Ig Nobel. Geoff Watts surveys a cultural phenomenon. Hallelujah! You'...
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Passionate observer who wants everyone to feel the earth move
A boyhood fascination with the natural world sparked Richard Fortey's interest in the geologies that have shaped human development. Harriet Swain meets a hands-on adventurer. Richard Fortey leads the...
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Now bring on the big boo-word
Home was Windsor Castle, school was Eton and Freya Stark was his godmother, so how did Malise Ruthven get his fascination with Islam and fundamentalism? Anthony Freeman finds out No religion...
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Rich feast on stony ground
Life on a Young Planet
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How the 'backward' are finally coming forwards
India's Silent Revolution
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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 1920s country-house satire: "Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed."...
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Marriage of awe and order
Enlightening the British - Enlightenment
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El Gigante is a huge letdown on return trip
The Enigmas of Easter Island