Diversity or lingua franca for Europe?
Four out of five people questioned in a straw poll carried out by David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, do not believe that diversity in languages is...
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Offensive 'spam' plagues colleges
Britain's universities are being targeted by computer junk mailers known as "spammers" who trade on the good reputations of academic institutions to peddle porn. The problem is reaching epidemic...
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Latest international news
Rector charged with fraud The rector of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been charged with breach of public official duties, mishandling of public money and fraud after the...
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Latest UK news
NUS rejects top-up option The National Union of Students is dismayed that vice-chancellors are considering top-up fees as a possible income stream for higher education. The NUS said that higher fees...
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From today's UK papers
GUARDIAN Chancellor Gordon Brown and development minister Clare Short will announce plans on Monday for a multibillion-pound international fund to provide cheap vaccines against childhood diseases to...
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Having a gas with the mechanics of fluids
Lattice Gas Hydrodynamics
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How hard is hard?
Microhardness of Polymers
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Why opossums should rule and other fantasies
Archaeology and Language
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Are fluorescent monkeys keys to glowing health?
The Harvard University geneticist Richard Lewontin's book consists of review essays originally published in the New York Review of Books between 1981 and 1993, with epilogues to bring them up to date...
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Creating crystal phenomena
Liquid Crystals
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From experience - what you don't have can'tleak
Accident... A Life Preventing Them in Industry
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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 Romantic writer who said her novel was as "unromantic as a Monday morning": " Of late years, an...
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When you arrive at Jupiter, take a left
A Tribble's Guide to Space
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Laurie Taylor Column
" Ministers are considering a further increase in the premium paid to universities for each student they recruit from a poor neighbourhood " - THES , February 16. Hello. Ah yes, hello indeed. Am I...
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Letter: Bean-counterclaims
We recently had a letter published (THES, January 26) that criticised the transparency review being carried out in the sector. This is the scheme whereby staff have to keep 24-hour diaries of their...