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  1. Elemental trials of a lone 'crazy gringo'

    To study humanity's relationship with nature, one man spent a year alone on a tiny, desolate island. Philip Fine reports For more than a year, the stoutly built wooden shelter had provided Bob Kull's...

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  2. Clannish creep throttles civic spirit

    The British concept of public duty is being undermined by the erosion of national loyalty and the elevation of individual rights, argues Roger Scruton Those of us brought up in postwar Britain have...

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  3. Artist with scalpel and brush

    Transplant pioneer Sir Roy Calne found painting his patients helped him to understand them and, writes Karen Gold, taught him something about himself. "The nice thing about sculpture," says Sir Roy...

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  5. No open minds allowed

    Academic experts are being kicked off US government advisory committees to make room for industrial consultants, rightwing radicals and Christian fundamentalists. Stephen Phillips reports In January...

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  6. No competition in research game 1

    It is always useful to identify the problem before deciding the optimal solution and, while Sir Gareth Roberts and the Higher Education Funding Council for England ("Revamped RAE to start a year...

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  7. No competition in research game 2

    The board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England has not approved a new research assessment method nor a new research assessment exercise timetable as you report. It received Sir Gareth...

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  8. Graduate job shop

    Simon Hamm (Soapbox, THES, April 11) suggests that "graduate recruitment is a game of trial and error". In my experience, graduate recruitment is a professional business and recruiters work hard to...

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  9. Status of scientists

    We support the president of the UK Biosciences Federation, Colin Blakemore, in his efforts to ensure it achieves a status comparable to that of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of...

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  10. Raising the hurdles

    Extra hurdles that the unions will face in arguing for salary rises ("Pay drive faces local hurdles", THES, April 18) include the increases in insurance, national insurance costs and employer...

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  11. No rope to tie hands

    In the story about the restructuring of Open University courses, you quote an OU spokeswoman saying: "We have been required by the Quality Assurance Agency to bring our standards up to everyone else...

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  12. Leave Kafka out of law

    On trial for murder, in the Coen brothers' film The Man Who Wasn't There, Billy Bob Thornton hires a defence lawyer who tries to cast doubt on the case by invoking the uncertainty principle of...

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  13. CUC got there first

    How "unprecedented" is the strategic alliance between further and higher education in Cumbria? Have the project's protaganists forgotten the Combined Universities in Cornwall ("Cumbrian alliance to...

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  14. Tangled in red tape?

    Margaret Hodge seems oblivious to the irony of her anti-bureaucracy drive ("Hodge promises check on red tape", THES, April 18). Checks involve a review group, a gatekeeper, an impact assessment and...

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  15. Tragedy repeated

    During the 1956 Suez crisis, Sir Pierson Dixon, then UK permanent representative at the United Nations, told the Eden government: "It is quite out of the question to extract from the Security Council...

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