Letter: Grants solution
It is hardly surprising most people think maintenance grants are better than debt ("Give students back grants, urge voters", THES , May 4). Unless asked who is supposed to provide the money for...
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Leader: US heads off on the high road to disaster
Humans have been altering the environment for centuries, and the changes they have made mean that we live on a planet capable of supporting billions of us. But as our reviews show this week, these...
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Leader: Party war cries ring out but fail to hit the right note
Next month's general election has many guises: a surrogate referendum on the Euro; the start of the Tory leadership contest; or the doorway to a second Labour term, when its radical intentions will...
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Climate of death in colonial politics
Brian Fagan says lessons should be learnt from 19th-century disasters. Global warming caused by humans, El Niños, monsoon failures and unprecedented rainfall in Europe - we live in environmentally...
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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 novelist who was also a tough guy: "Robert Cohn was once a middleweight boxing champion of Princeton...
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Creating a tribe of ancestral savages
Darkness in El Dorado
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Epiphany that unlocked a genius
Where the Dreams Cross
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Diverse societies join in principle
Legal Traditions of the World
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Herbs add spice to American trail
The Settlement of the Americas
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Chronicle of crises that's soft and noisy
World Disasters Report
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Travels on ancient sea lanes
Pre-Columbiana
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All eyes on the space race
Steve Farrar reports on the team of scientists striving to build the world's largest telescope and the anthropologist who is observing them When the multifaceted eye of the California Extremely Large...
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Running on a clean-up ticket
Italy's star anti-corruption campaigner wants to purge politics of big business. Unfortunately for him, a tycoon with a shady past is the likely next PM On the eve of Italy's general election,...
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One press pass that will open any door
Italy's next prime minister will probably be the richest man in the land, master of the country's three main commercial TV networks and of an empire that includes newspaper, magazine and book...
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A historical postmortem
The Wellcome Trust has been rounding up witnesses to record medicine's key events. Geoff Watts reports. The principle is simple. Choose a key medical event and invite the principal dramatis personae...