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  1. For young, new day is dawning

    Germany and France both want to revitalise their research sectors by injecting cash and giving youth more scope. Jane Marshall reports from Paris. French research minister Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg...

  2. Are GM crops destroying America's regal inhabitant?

    As Greenpeace protesters are acquitted of criminally damaging GM crops, Julian Morris says it may be morally wrong not to take a risk that gives third world peoples hardier, life-saving crops. JOHN...

  3. Star Turn

    Julian Richards meets a maths professor who started out as a carnival magician Persi Diaconis is no ordinary magician. Come to that, he is no ordinary professor of mathematics and statistics. He...

  4. How to save students from boredom

    WHAT: Paul Sander and Keith Stevenson believe academics should listen to what students say about teaching style. WHY: Responding to students' fears and expectations can help improve courses and...

  5. Campus plugged into heart of city life

    The University of Queensland, the state's oldest and most elite, has revitalised a run-down city 40km west of Brisbane by establishing a novel 'wired' campus with state-of-the-art facilities. Geoff...

  6. To boldly go into student brains

    Chris Lonsdale and Barbara Gorayska ponder an automated future A colleague recently told us about a new project, funded by industry, to develop education technology. The aim is to have technology...

  7. Gain with no pain is hope of partners

    Leeds Metropolitan University and the University of Bradford have signed a strategic alliance that their vice-chancellors hope will provide all the benefits of a merger "without the pain". It will...

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  8. Journal risks all in fight to use name Leonardo

    A lawsuit is threatening the future of a journal that for nearly 30 years has provided a forum for artists who use science and technology in their work. Paris-based financial company Transasia...

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  9. Mass murderer fear chills Siberian campus

    Female university students in a remote Siberian city have been told not to go out alone after the disappearance of five young women since July. An atmosphere of fear and distrust has settled on Altai...

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  10. Fighting a lost cause

    Alan McHughen argues that ecologists' recent victory against GM crops is hollow because the war has already been lost The acquittal last week of Lord Melchett and the ecosaviours (or ecoterrorists,...

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  11. Readers' reactions

    Last week in The THES... Nick Crossley wrote that student protests are no more, especially in Manchester Keith Flett, London. Nick Crossley's view that student radicalism is a thing of the past is...

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