Can we put a price on words of wisdom?
Geoff Watts asks whether the Wellcome Trust should have paid nearly £2 million for Francis Crick's papers and ponders the impact of email on the future of archives. The alarm was sounded about six...
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Taking care from the bench to the bedside
Two of the United Kingdom's biggest cancer charities are to merge next month. Tony Durham looks at the benefits. Next month a giant new cancer charity, Cancer Research UK, will arise from the merger...
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Birth and death of harmony
The End of the Peace Process
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Subversion thrives in a melancholy musical mix
Harrison Birtwistle
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Expulsion that enriched West
Daniel Snowman on Hitler's unwitting legacy to the UK and US. Hitler, by his brutal and obsessive cultural nationalism, inadvertently presented some of the finest products of German and Austrian...
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Objects of desire struggle to unite
Design and the Decorative Arts, Britain 1500-1900
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Spare a thought for your toaster
Designing the 21st Century
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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 novel about two itinerant farm labourers: "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in...
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Dye cast when first tooth falls
Textiles from Guatemala - Miao Textiles from China - Printed and Dyed Textiles from Africa - Embroidery from India and Pakistan
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Swathed, slashed and pleated - wrapping up the fashion industry
Radical Fashion - The Fashion Book, Mini Edition - Fashion Today - Visionaries
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'Get a life' is first rule of animation
The Animator's Survival Kit
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Out with the old, in with the... old
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Laurie Taylor column
Why not make a career in the burgeoning world of university administration? - Headline in careers pamphlet. Morning, Maureen. Any news from the bursar about that mistake in the departmental grant? He...
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Leader: Strong foundation can be built upon licences
We should indeed, as Richard ffrench-Constant suggests (see "UK risks patent foul-up"), be learning from Warf, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The first lesson is that we have a lot of...