Memories that purge the past
As a Jew in Nazi Germany, Marianne Ellenbogen spent the second world war on the run. Biographer Mark Roseman was amazed by her recollections, especially when some of them proved to be wrong I began...
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Catholic church vs saviour of childless
In Italy, the pope wants to restrict human fertility treatment, but UK researchers have found that relationships in donor and IVF families are unusually strong Severino Antinori, Italy's charismatic...
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Don't keep mum about not being your little girl's dad
Under UK legislation, children reaching adulthood will, by the end of the decade, be able to ask the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority if they were born through donor conception or are...
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Higher channels
John Davies browses through the broadcasting week (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week "Losing Faith in Science" is the subtitle of Wednesday's The Commission (8.00 R4), in which Vivian...
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Warming to a climate of change
Before we walked the earth, our planet was subject to abrupt short-lived climate swings. Richard Alley believes that this pattern could begin again. Climate changes, and humans adapt. Through the...
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Buenos Aires
The rector of the Universidad de C"rdoba has become Argentina's education minister after the resignation of Juan Jose Llach. Hugo Oscar Juri said he would puruse his predecessor's reforms. Llach...
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Ottawa
Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy is leaving politics after years in elected office to take up an academic job as director of the new Liu Centre of International Affairs in British Columbia...
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San Raphael
South America's first telescope designed to respond to instructions from internet users will be placed in one of the world's optimal sites, near the Argentine town of San Raphael in Mendoza.
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Kosti
Two people died and several were injured in riots in White Nile state, Sudan, when students demonstrated against military conscription. Banks were burnt, the television station attacked and...
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Sacking of fiery US coach sparks riots
The firing of Indiana University's basketball coach has provided fresh evidence that university athletics in the United States has an almost religious status. Bob Knight was sacked after allegedly...
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Northumbria staff balloted over job threat
Staff at Northumbria University are to be balloted for industrial action over the threat of about 140 job cuts. A spokesman for lecturers' union Natfhe said there were fears of compulsory...
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Cambridge University
An article in The THES (September 22, page 18) by Paul Surtees on the lack of female firsts at Cambridge University should have referred to students with high grades at S levels gaining first-class...
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Don's Diary
January Finish writing a political biography of Nobel prizewinner Dario Fo and decide to translate his play Mum's Marijuana Is the Best. It has never been performed in English before. This is my...
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Royal smiles
(Photograph) - Royal smiles: staff, students and graduates from Queen Margaret University College process down Edinburgh's Royal Mile to St Giles Cathedral for a celebratory service marking the...
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Blackstone rules out top-up fees
Differential tuition fees were ruled out for the foreseeable future by the higher education minister, Tessa Blackstone, speaking at the Labour Party conference this week. She also hinted that...