When the world sings the blues...
...does it mean everybody is sad? Humans can pick out 4 million shades, but different nationalities ascribe different properties to various hues. Anne M. Sebba meets the scientists who are trying to...
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The work that has rocked anthropology
A book on the work of two American anthropologists has divided the profession with claims that they destroyed the way of life of hundreds of Yanomami Indians. Tim Cornwell reports. The much-studied...
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Jigsaw jackpot
An unemployed mathematician today picked up a £1 million prize for completing the world’s most complex jigsaw puzzle. Alex Selby, from Cambridge, completed the 209-piece jigsaw...
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University rector in court
Aberdeen University rector and television personality Clarissa Dickson Wright today appeared in court after pleading guilty to a speeding offence. Ms Dickson Wright, a former barrister, appeared at...
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From today's UK papers 25 October
FINANCIAL TIMES Just six years after e-mail and the internet emerged to become household worlds, the University of California at Los Angeles has launched an ongoing survey on the medium's impact on...
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Engineering for Manufacturing Programme: next generation manufacturing
Deadline: 17/11/2000
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Transitions after Fifty Programme
Deadline: 15/12/2000
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Management Accounting and Knowledge Management
Deadline: 31/01/2001
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Daily TV & radio guide - Thursday
Crossing Continents (11.00 am R4). Julian Pettifer in the Basque country. The Material World (4.30 R4). The mysterious single waves known as solitons, with explanation from Alan Boardman (Salford...
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Drug-busted students denied aid
Almost 7,000 of the 9 million US students who applied for federal aid for this fall are ineligible for some or all of their financial aid because of convictions for drug-related offences, according...
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Euro rectors end Serb isolation
Marija Bogdanovic, acting rector of the University of Belgrade, is due to attend this weeks' CRE/Association of European Rectors conference in Cracow, Poland. She is likely to be confirmed...
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From today's UK papers 23 October 2000
FINANCIAL TIMES Oxford University's medical research council has backed down from a potentially damaging intellectual property dispute with the University of Nairobi over joint research into a...
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Latest stories 23 October
Euro rectors end Serb isolation Marija Bogdanovic, acting rector of the University of Belgrade, is due to attend this weeks' CRE/Association of European Rectors conference in Cracow, Poland...
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Higher education appointments
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology The following have been appointed to the university's court: Payson Cha , chairman of the Mingly Corporation Ltd; William Fung , group managing...
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Higher education awards & prizes
University of Cluj, Romania Derek Ingham , professor of applied mathematics, has been awarded an honorary doctorate .