Paris, 25 Sep 2003 For over a decade ESA has used satellites to bounce radar pulses off the Earth and precisely measure the height of ocean and land surfaces. But inland lakes and rivers have been...
Lord Hutton is charged with untangling the Kelly affair. Is such a search for absolute veracity an impossible task, or is the truth out there? asks Sean Coughlan. When the Hutton inquiry into the...
Pessimism results from rhetoric's failure to meet reality. Trevor Smith calls for more authentic discourse. More than 40 years ago, William Kornhauser presciently forecast the shape of things to come...
'Goldenballs' may be losing his lustre in the West, but in the East they bow down before David Beckham. Ellis Cashmore tells how myth and market combined in a fairytale with a happy and lucrative...
Iyes, but what else did Robert Hooke ever do for us? Lisa Jardine recalls a forgotten genius. Robert Hooke was a brilliant man in a brilliant European generation. It was Hooke who, in a letter to...
The change that marks the start of a new academic year is reflected at the highest level as some big-name vice-chancellors bow out and new faces appear. Both those moving out and those moving up will...
Malcolm Grant University College London The walls of the cavernous rooms of the provost of University College London have been re-papered but otherwise remain bare. Malcolm Grant, the new incumbent,...
Mary Gladstone
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This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a writer who once translated Che Guevara in Havana: "What the contemporary observer sees is not...
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