A proof of papal fallibility
Hitler's Pope
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Good intentions, poor credibility
Un'idea dell'Europa [An Idea of Europe]
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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 author who said goodbyes to both a city and his country: " My first impression was that the...
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The mind in its own place
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
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Making the fantasy fit
Subject to Biography
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Layman's guide to defining evil men
Bad Boys, Bad Men
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Fugue-itive minds and bodies
Mad Travellers
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The pleasure principle and beyond
The Evolution of Consciousness
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Welcome to my world
The View from Within
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Going, going...gone
Black-market trade in antiquities is destroying some countries' heritage. Anne Sebba reports on battles by archaeologists to stop the looting James Ede, a London-based antiquities dealer, put two...
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The trouble with treasure
In 1990, Sotheby's in New York announced that it was to auction on behalf of the Marquess of Northampton a spectacular collection of silver, known as the Sevso treasure. The name derived from a Latin...
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Linguistic ruminations on lethal mutations
In the fifth excerpt from the THES book Predictions Noam Chomsky ponders the properties that define our species and asks if they will save or destroy us The record of prediction in human affairs has...
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Higher Channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Time to examine our language. BBC Radio kicks off a "Thousand Years of Spoken English" season with The Routes of...
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Six billion..and counting
Population growth is no longer a clear-cut problem, reports Harriet Swain Peter McDonald (below) says the issue is how we will balance the world's labour supply This is World Population Week,...
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Six billion ... and counting
The issue is how we will balance the world's labour supply In a recent address to the World Congress of Families, held in Melbourne, Allan Carlson, an adviser to the Reagan and Bush administrations,...