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  3. TV & radio guide - Thursday

    » Routes of English (9.00 am R4). "Border Talk" – the border being Offa’s Dyke. Melvyn Bragg listens to the people of Oswestry. Truman (9.15 am BBC2). Part two of presidential biography. The Civil...

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  4. Sit, then do the ironing

    Robot toys are a Christmas favourite. They are also the testing ground for sophisticated tools that will change our lives, writes Tim Cornwell. In 1997, researchers at the Massachusetts company...

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  5. From the wellspring of disaster rise faint hopes

    Efforts to provide fresh water to West Bengal and Bangladesh led to an environmental and human catastrophe. But, reports Steve Farrar, scientists are closing in on the cause of the disaster. A widow...

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  6. Can this old house offer a new window on the world?

    As Chatham House loses its director after a brief tenure, Claire Sanders considers the institute's challenges. When Chris Gamble, the first female director of the Royal Institute of International...

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  7. Does the devil eat hot dogs?

    Massimo Salani says meals cement our relationship with God. But, he tells Domenico Pacitti, he never said fast food was fit only for Protestants. An Italian theology lecturer who was catapulted...

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  8. Letter: IT liberators(1)

    I thoroughly agree with Jeffrey Henderson on how to compete with the United States ("To excel, simply remove red tape", THES, December 8), particularly on the use of transcripts detailing graduates'...

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  9. Letter: Free of straitjacket

    Frank Furedi makes two common mistakes among critics of quality assurance agencies ("Institutions wither in the quality straitjacket", Soapbox, THES, November 24). First, he lumps all external...

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  10. Letter: Heretics under fire

    In the five years I have subscribed to The THES, I have been struck by how often in articles distinguished scientists posit the existence of a God - even an immanent God. Does Peter Atkins ("Bishops...

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  11. Letter: In brief(1)

    Samuel Richardson's novel was not called Clarissa Harlow , nor was it serialised in a weekly magazine over a year ("The ultimate in fantasy novels", Modern Language Association Convention supplement...

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  12. Letter: In brief(2)

    No legitimate British university gives credit for life experience ("I'd like one doner kebab and a PhD to take away", THES, November 15). Awarding credit for experiential learning involves...

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  13. Letter: In brief(3)

    Your article on British American Tobacco funding of Nottingham University ("Charities fume over tobacco funding", THES, December 8) quotes me as labelling the university's vice-chancellor "clever,...

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  14. Letter: In brief(4)

    The article "Rerouting world waterways" (Research, THES, December 1) omitted to say that Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making by the World Commission on Dams is published by...

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  15. Letter: No winners in teaching turf war(1)

    I read with concern "Union motion to abandon ILT" (THES, December 8). I have been involved with the Institute for Learning and Teaching as an accreditor and as a member since its creation, and I feel...

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