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  1. Take train to less strain

    Postdocs keen to pay off their student debts might be interested to hear of the job deals available at South West Trains. The company, which has recently been plagued by strikes by members of the...

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  2. Principal promotion

    Bill McKelvey, director of operations at the Scottish Agricultural College since 1999, has been appointed its chief executive and principal. Professor McKelvey, pictured above, is an expert on...

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  3. Geneticists must win public trust to succeed

    Britain's research biologists want to find out how life works and they want to defeat deadly diseases. But as the House of Lords heard this week in a debate and select committee hearing, these aims...

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  5. A more coherent European Space Strategy

       Brussels, 17 January 2002 Konstantinos ALYSSANDRAKIS (EUL/NGL, GR) Report on the Commission communication to the Council and the European Parliament on Europe and Space...

  6. St Aldate's to Old Trafford

    Are the worlds of Oxbridge and Manchester really so different? Terry Eagleton on swapping the dreaming spires for the ship canal. Last year, I moved to a post at Manchester University after almost 40...

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  7. Gagged by the flag and other patriot games

    Stephen Phillips reports how the treatment of critics of the US has sparked rows over academic freedom. Catherine Lutz recalls encountering many diverse campus viewpoints in the wake of September 11...

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  8. US hate: a designer prejudice for our time

    Clive Christie argues that anti-Americanism is a betrayal of intellectual integrity. The Afghan crisis has concentrated attention on a phenomenon that is influential in academic, cultural and media...

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  9. A traditionalist with the eye

    A hundred years after his birth, essayist and thinker Michael Oakeshott might hold the key to reviving a beleaguered Tory Party, argues David Walker. If Isaiah Berlin's posthumous reputation has been...

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  10. Uniting a nation with bridge and brochure

    Bosnia is not an obvious holiday destination, but Chris Bunting reports on a scheme that aims to use tourism to heal the country's ethnic rifts. On the morning of November 9 1993, a tank shell...

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  12. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book about the working class: "'The Bottoms' succeeded to 'Hell Row'." The winner receives a £25...

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  13. End of a polar pantomime

    Max Jones reconsiders the roles of the Antarctic/Arctic adventurers. The extension of the National Maritime Museum's exhibition on the race to the South Pole testifies to a contemporary fascination...

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