MM 2001: Moral rights, global responsibilities
The more the fight for human rights gains in popularity, the more it loses any concrete content," writes novelist Milan Kundera in Immortality. "The world has become man's right and everything in it...
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MM 2001: Death sentence for disease?
Cures for Alzheimer's, Aids and cancer are all potential prizes for geneticists. Geoff Watts spoke to some of those working at the cutting edge of research Health care has always been shaped by...
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MM 2001: Environment - Books
A Consumer's Guide to Genetically Modified Food: From Green Genes to Red Herrings By Alan McHughen Oxford University Press, £60.00 The gene is out of the test tube, warns Alan McHughen, and there is...
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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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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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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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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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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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The poor get stuffed for Christmas
Some mature students are so poor that their children will go without presents this Christmas, according to an explosive report into student finances commissioned by the government. Lone parents, who...
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Latest international news
Mounties on trail of student loan fraudsters The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is investigating a C$2 million (£893,000) student loan fraud. One man has been arrested and more arrests are expected....
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Early January should see the blooming of the government's new white paper on the knowledge economy - the latest competitiveness white paper. BP will announce £2.5m funding for...
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Latest UK news
Pay bargaining chief resigns University pay bargaining chief Peter Humphreys today announced his resignation and said that local pay bargaining is almost certain to become the norm in the sector. Mr...
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TV & radio guide - Wednesday
Truman (9.25 am BBC2, also Thurs 9.15 am, Friday 9.00 am ). Three-part profile of former US president. The Civil War: Traitors and Patriots (10.00 am History Channel) and » The West : Speck of the...
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Latest international news
University reopens after student protest The University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso has reopened two months after a boycott of lectures by students demanding better living and...
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From today's UK papers
THE GUARDIAN After 30 years of stonewalling, the United Kingdom government is finally considering following the lead of 91 other countries and signing the Unesco convention banning the international...