MM 2001: Family & Demography - Research
Simulating policy for an ageing society (Sage) Building a UK population model from now to 2020 The population is ageing, and the implications for future social policy are massive, spanning pensions,...
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MM 2001: Is there anybody out there
Eighty-three per cent of us believe there is, and some believe life originated on Mars. Colin Pillinger outlines efforts to collect data from the Red Planet and considers the implications The...
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MM 2001: Space - Books
Looking for Earths By Alan Boss John Wiley, £20.50 and £12.50 Although a little out of date already, this book describes the discovery of planets around other stars, one of the most significant...
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MM 2001: Light of our lives
As Hubble reaches the autumn of its life, astronomy is looking to the future with a new batch of telescopes. Simon Singh outlines advances in the field Astronomy is a unique discipline. Astronomers...
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MM 2001: Space - People
Confirming and refining the inflationary model Andrew Liddle is part of the 250-strong collaboration that is preparing for the launch of the Planck satellite. His particular interest is in confirming...
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MM 2001: Space - Research
The International Space Station The biggest story of the next decade It is the largest scientific project in history and the biggest space story of the next decade. The International Space Station (...
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MM 2001: Human Rights - Books
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. By Geoffrey Robertson. Penguin, £20.00. "The notion that 'rights' might belong to anyone, anywhere, as a human inheritance was ridiculed by 19th-century philosophers," says...
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MM 2001: Human Rights - People
UN expert charged with investigating torture Governments do not look forward to getting a letter signed by Sir Nigel Rodley , professor of law at Essex University's Human Rights Centre. For he is the...
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MM 2001: Human Rights - Research
Big business learns to care Persuading large corporations to promote human rights Transnational companies under fire from human rights campaigners have changed their policies and their practice after...
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MM 2001: Values for a godless age
Does our obsession with human rights devalue the concept of duty? Francesca Klug argues that it can act as an essential bulwark against barbarity. Charter for Chaos." "Boon for lawyers." These were...
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MM 2001: Born under a bad gene?
If defective behaviour is influenced by 'faulty' genes, how responsible should criminals be for their crimes? Susan Greenfield shows how advances in genetics are making demands on our sense of values...
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MM 2001: Health - Books
A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes and Society By James Watson, Oxford University Press, £18.99 When our cells divide, the genes within them must replicate. Mistakes sometimes occur leading to disease...
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MM 2001: Health - People
Scaling the computerised face of biomedicine Few scientists can expect to share an £8 million grant or head a research group before finishing their PhDs. Ewan Birney , team leader for genomic...
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MM 2001: Health - Research
Connections between poverty and health You are what you earn Poverty and ill health are linked. A truism. The last serious political attempt to obscure the connection came with the Thatcher...
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MM 2001: Work and Community - Books
In Work, At Home: Towards an Understanding of Homeworking. By Alan Felstead and Nick Jewson. Routledge, £60.00. More and more people are earning a living at home. The numbers of those working mainly...