Lords back broader stem cell research
British science was cautiously celebrating a victory this week after the House of Lords voted to extend human stem cell research. The Lords overturned an amendment by anti-abortion campaigner Lord...
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Kroto protests cutbacks
Nobel prizewinner Sir Harry Kroto has handed back an honorary degree from the University of Hertfordshire in protest against cuts in its chemistry department. "The recent plans to reduce the amount...
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Graduate employment up The proportion of graduates out of work six months after graduation is at its lowest for seven years. Some 68 per cent were employed within six months of completing a full-time...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES The place at which the sperm enters the egg has a far greater role in early development than previously thought, say researchers from Cambridge University. Fears that people will...
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A path through a moral maze
Chasing Shadows
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100 years on: the flag is still flying, but is it red?
As the Labour Party quietly celebrates its centenary, Gordon Marsden finds continuities between Labour old and new. Anniversaries are tricky affairs. Certainly they give an opportunity to highlight...
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Albert, the reluctant exhibit
The Albert Memorial
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Capitalism's melting plots
Form Follows Finance - The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940
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Deliverance in the tombs
Delhi: the Built Heritage
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Before the war, coke was merely a tonic
Emperors of Dreams
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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 hard-boiled novel (and film) about Los Angeles: " It was one of the mixed blocks over on Central...
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Forced labour? Birth is more a hostile takeover
A Visitor Within
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A corpus excised of quackery
Medicine in the 20th Century
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Laurie Taylor column
Welcome to the first of this term’s staff-graduate seminars. Regrettably, our advertised speaker, Doctor G. R. Clinker, is unable to deliver his paper on global communications because of maintenance...
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Leader: Tories' bold ideas still need to show some substance
The Conservative Party's new higher education policy is a bold and decisive one, and its decision to make it a visible plank of its election platform is welcome. Alongside David Blunkett's Greenwich...