How budding genius gets to blossom
With Britain planning a centre for gifted kids, Stephen Phillips reports on US models. Joan Freeman considers research on how such schemes affect children. Princeton University first-year Stephanie...
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Star of a mushrooming field
Steve Farrar meets a man who travels the world seeking new fungi whose biochemical trickery could one day save human lives. In 1987, Gary Strobel had a life-changing clash with the establishment. At...
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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 self-caricature by an English novelist: "It may happen in the next hundred years that the English...
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Pills, polygamy and Nobel lust
Miriam Stoppard takes a peek at the life of a scientific warrior. In the early 1960s, the public's expectations of new medicines were unreasonably high. Efficacy was taken for granted and so was the...
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Trading in the veil for a sword
The Begums of Bhopal
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Che, but with a sense of humour
Our Word is Our Weapon
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Democracy at last - well almost
Dirty War, Clean Hands
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War may not be nuclear
Nuclear Disarmament
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Can truth mend fractured lives?
A Country Unmasked
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An open door for closure
Coming to Terms - For Humanity
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Finding a new midwife for a rebirth of history
A Force More Powerful
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Green tea, tragedy and a bit of the other
Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?
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Suffrage does not equal democracy
The Right to Vote
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Of gentle journeys in violent regions
Three Journeys in the Levant