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An egotist with selfless leanings
Francisco Toledo
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Taking a voyage to Mesoamerica from the comfort of the coffee table
Ancient West Mexico - Ancient Oaxaca
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Death to the adulteress
Author and academic Rene Weis believes that Edith Thompson, hanged for murder in 1923, was a victim of moral outrage. Helen Hague reports. On January 9 1923, Edith Thompson, a sparky successful, 29-...
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Should you wine and dine them or just correct their spelling?
A postgraduate's progress depends on their relationship with their supervisor. Anne Sebba asks if women -with their maternal instincts - are better suited to the role. Itake all my postgraduate...
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Sister of the 21st century
Feminism has slumped into enmity between the sexes since Angela McRobbie firstembraced it in the 1970s. Now, as women are pushed into an unequal jobs market, she calls on academics to reinventthe 'f...
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Wonky wonder worrying you?
Two scientists who save moving monuments talk to Jennifer Currie Saving historical monuments from collapse is part of the work of Robert Mair, professor of geotechnical engineering at Cambridge...
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Whispers on a not so clear-cut case of publish and be damned
A dispute over the copyright of poet John Clare's work has left scholar Simon Kovesi facing legal action A joint letter from 28 scholars and poets including Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Andrew...
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Ghostly infrasounds
Vic Tandy makes the absurd claim that "ghosts are mainly infrasound". Surely, ghosts are hallucinations brought about mainly by infrasound (Why II, THES, July 14). Richard Wilson Bicester, Oxfordshire
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Research funding sources
Each week The THES research section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk. HUMAN FRONTIER SCIENCE PROGRAM. www.hfsp.org The HFSP aims...
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Web irritant
Why do so many institutional websites fail to put their address and telephone number on the initial page or anywhere obvious? Names of miscreants withheld - and the addresses also. Gerald Vinten...
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Web design
(Photograph) - Angie Cotterill, a fine arts student at Staffordshire University, mixed spiders' webs with vacuum cleaner contents to make a dress for her final-year degree show. She collected the...
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Data disputes delay indicators
Disputes over data quality are delaying the publication of the latest performance indicators that show the social class of students at each university. More than 20 institutions disputed the figures...
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Foreigners pick up teaching tab
Overseas student fees are subsidising the teaching of British and European Union undergraduates to the tune of tens of millions of pounds a year, according to confidential new figures. The figures...
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Wellcome funds free genome software
The Wellcome Trust will spend Pounds 8 million over five years to make freely available to researchers a computer program to analyse the human genome. The program, called Ensembl, locates active...