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Indus Age
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, recalls an impoverished industrial area of the UK reinvented in the 1980s as a "heritage site": "The first...
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Making a mark in the classroom
When Elaine Showalter decided to pass on 30 years of teaching experience to her graduate students she opened up a fraught and secret domain Everyone complains these days that we do not train graduate...
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Containing cancer
Will the products below increase your chances of getting cancer? Samuel Epstein thinks so. Ayala Ochert reports Here is a sobering thought - on Monday morning, as you breakfast, shower and get ready...
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Collision course to extinction
An asteroid colliding with Earth could wipe out humanity. Alison Goddard reports on research to curb the threat In 1908, an asteroid exploded above the Tunguska area of Siberia with the energy of...
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Goodbye to all that civilisation
Benny Peiser believes that asteroid impacts could account for the collapse of ancient civilisations. It is possible that the virtually simultaneous collapse of the first urban civilisations in the...
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What is this thing called asteroid?
One of the problems with any plan to deflect or destroy an asteroid on a collision course with Earth is that astronomers do not know whether asteroids are rubble or monolithic. Several space missions...
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Higher channels
Tom Davies focuses on radio and television programmes that may be of use to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) FRIDAY September 3 Aberglasney: A Garden Lost in Time (7.30 BBC2). Part two of...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Funding listings are compiled by Sarah Knowles 0171 782 3225 Email:...
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Flower power
(Photograph) - Flower power: Colin Peters, farm manager at the Institute of Arable Crops Research site in Rothemstead, Hertfordshire, surveys a genetically modified crop. Photograph by GEOOFF...
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Osh
Archaeologists excavating what has been tentatively identified as the site of ancient Osh in Kyrgyzstan reported dateable fragments of pottery. Osh will celebrate its 3,000th anniversary in 2001 with...
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Djakarta
Nine anti-government students were detained outside Indonesia's presidential palace for demonstrating without a permit.
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Seattle
The William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation are to merge into a single organisation called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support global health and learning programmes...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Jonathan Weiner highlighted the risks of banning the teaching of evolution in Kansas schools. David J. Tyler Principal lecturer Department of clothing, design and technology...