A stunted star who cast a spell on Vienna
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Brain Story
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Did Margaret Thatcher really resign or was your memory playing tricks?
The Oxford Handbook of Memory
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When a rabbit is a red herring
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
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New Enlightenment gives Kulturwissenschaft a chance to flourish
Two new research centres are helping to redefine Jewish studies and rescue it from the academic ghetto, write Griselda Pollock and Eva Frojmovic If not yet at the heart of the British university,...
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Gargoyles, inkwells and brands of gold
University-branded goods are big business in the US - but it's a different story in the UK. Kate Worsley looks for the bottom line on what a logo is worth in profit and image The last time the...
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Cupid's book of ciphers
By cracking the code of a PoW's wartime diary, a mathematician gave a woman a glimpse into her husband's torment and passion. Karen Gold reports In the dining room of the Savoy Hotel, still standing...
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A troubled history that began in 8,000 BC
In her new book, Marianne Elliott draws on her experiences of growing up a Catholic in Belfast to trace the forces that have fused the country's politics with religion. Anne McHardy reports For...
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Higher Channels
John Davies chooses some broadcasting highlights (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week While Channel 4 is still focusing on doctors' mistakes (see Sunday and Tuesday), BBC1 presents medicine...
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A lord with a rainbow notion
Author of the controversial report published this week on Britain's multi-ethnic future, Bhikhu Parekh argues that we should learn to value our cultural diversity and consign to history attitudes...
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Eye bath
(Photograph) - Tina Romanay has her eyes examined at City University's new optometry department, which has moved to Bath Street, next door to Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Photograph by JOEL CHANT
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Peshawar
Police have closed the women's department of the Afghan University in Peshawar, Pakistan, claiming it is located in a residential district where commercial, business and higher education activities...
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Cochabamba
Bolivian undergraduate students on law, psychology, sociology and economics courses at the Universidad Mayor de San Sim"n have been granted equal say with their professors in appointing teaching...
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Mixed ratings for teachers
Australia's new university graduates have mixed feelings about the quality of teaching they received. A survey of 1999 graduates found that only two in five rated their teaching as good. They were...
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Dribbling drivel
Administrative staff at the Association of University Teachers' headquarters clearly feared an outbreak of verbal diarrhoea when a fax machine jammed, blocking all incoming messages. A memo was...