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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a Booker prize-winning novel set in the 1950s: " It seems increasingly likely that I really will...
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How to genetically engineer humanity
Nuclear transfer After Dolly came Polly. Although she is less famous than her cloned cousin, the techniques used to produce Polly the sheep may be more relevant to germline genetic engineering of...
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Higher channels
John Davies looks for useful TV and radio programmes. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Since it started last autumn, the Open University's Science Night (Thursdays/Fridays BBC2) has...
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A germ of an idea leads to GM people
Scientists are starting to contemplate the unthinkable: geneticengineering that would change the course of human evolution. Ayala Ochert reports Genetically modified foods may be the big issue in...
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The colours of advancement
A landmark trial has thrust race equality onto the education agenda. Helen Hague reports Asif Qureshi, who won a record payout for racial discrimination from Manchester University two years ago, has...
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Dressed to impress
Shapeless, ugly, scruffy ... formal academic gowns may be OK for men, but high-flying women are designing their own. Elaine Williams reports Vice-chancellors have rarely given a second thought to the...
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Burial rites and civil wrongs
Should Kennewick Man's 9,000-year-old remains go to American Indians for burial or to scientists for research? Tim Cornwell reports on a row dividing academics Three years after his bones were...
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The Gospel according to science
Science offers a framework for understanding human behaviour and a basis for moral choice. This, Paul Davies says, could point the way to a new ethics In a few days, General Augusto Pinochet will...
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Star turn
Computer science boring? Lectures ineffective? Not at Kent University. Jennifer Currie meets the Jerry Springer of the lecture hall. Give Sally Fincher a microphone, and she could give Jerry Springer...
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Northern lights
Arktiktum in Lapland is not the most northerly institute of higher education in the world (Eyewitness, THES, January 7). That distinction belongs to the University of Tr?mso in Norway. Anthony...
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Missing women
Just two of the 17 contributors to The Millennium Magazine (THES, December 24/31 1999) were women. Editor Auriol Stevens pre-empts criticism by declaring it was the millenn-ium of men. Yet the texts...
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Drama addition
We have five members of staff, not four ("A new stage in Greek tragedy", THES, January 14). Pantelis Michelakis, an expert on the relationship between ancient drama and the modern cinema, joined in...
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The Hague
Fausto Pocar, an Italian professor of international law at the University of Milan, has been made a judge on the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. He has conducted missions for the United Nations High...
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Kuching
Malaysian education minister Tan Sri Musa Muhammad is under pressure to review the timing of graduation and delays in postings for new teachers. The Sarawak Teachers Union says teachers were usually...