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  1. Phantom traumas that cause real misery

    Much chronic pain is little understood but the key to a cure seems to lie in the brain, argues Ronald Melzack. "Stop pain" has become a rallying cry for people who seek improved care for countless...

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  2. When torment is my agony, your itch and his salvation

    If doctors could offer us a world free of pain, would we really want it? Perhaps not, says Geoff Watts. "For all the happiness mankind can gain/ Is not in pleasure but in rest from pain", wrote poet...

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  3. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by an Old Etonian down on his luck: "The Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning." The...

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  12. Elite given the edge 2

    While yearning for a lost Arcadia ("Passion dies for bride of the state", THES , August 2), Kenneth Minogue refers to the state "adopting increasing numbers of rather backward children". Assuming he...

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  13. Examine the logic 1

    How much time and effort could have been saved if the external-examiner system had been addressed at the beginning of the quality debate rather than at the end, (Editorial, THES , August 8)? As Lewis...

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  14. Examine the logic 2

    External examiners enable a department to see how its courses and teaching relate to those of other institutions with which the examiner is familiar. Department members rarely consider their teaching...

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  15. In brief 1

    So research students in science, engineering and maths are to get £40 a day to teach in secondary schools ("Differential pay given green light", THES , July 26). The London School of Economics' rate...

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