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Hair of the cat's no fun
Conflict in Korea - Korea
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Charting the history of the Med
A Study of Mediterranean History
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Fudging of the green agenda
Environmental Democracy
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How to impress with gene genius
Genetics Manual
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Not so fertile lands
Generations at Risk
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Seeing a wood through trees
Spatial Modelling of Forest Landscape Change
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an American recluse with an interest in spooks, psychics and V2s: "A screaming comes across the sky....
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Why I cannot go to Austria
Doing the right thing Chris Mulvey's reasons for boycotting the EAAS conference expressed as responses to arguments posted on the EAAS email list 1 Outsiders have no business involving themselves...
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Doing the right thing
Would you attend a conference in a country run partly by neo-fascists? That, as George McKay explains, is the issue facing 400 academics due to go to Austria Should I stay or should I go? That is the...
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On the menu: epistemology, gumbo and giving
A seminar series at Karl Sabbagh's alma mater invites him to debate tough issues and to reflect on philanthropy Donkey's Years, a play by Michael Frayn set in an Oxbridge college, depicts the events...
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Higher Channels
John Davies audits the broadcasting output (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Next time the BBC is accused of dumbing down, you can be sure that Seeing Salvation (Sunday 8.10 BBC2) will...
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How to net the big bucks
More and more members ofcomputer science faculties aretrying their hand at e-commerce. Tim Cornwell reports A gold rush of sorts is under way in the United States, a country now mesmerised by the...
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The lure of the e-life
About ten years ago, Mark Horowitz was feeling "a little burnt out" by his job on the electrical engineering staff at Stanford University. "A friend of mine had this idea, and it sounded interesting...
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The lure of the e-life
"All my life I had been a professor," says Ramish Jain, "and this is a different life. But I was so excited about it, I knew it was going to happen." About three years ago, Jain, chief executive...