In search of the Holy Grail
The Biological Basis of Cancer
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Making molehills out of mountains
Ludwik Rajchman (1881-1965) was a polyglot Pole of internationalist bent and institutionalist accent, who spearheaded some of the noblest humanitarian initiatives of this century: the United Nations...
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Detailed storeys of a skyscraper, sauerkraut and stew
Building the Empire State
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Electoral odds
DEMOCRATS Frontrunner: Al Gore Albert Gore jr, vice-president of the US, will be 52 in November 2000. Product of a Tennessean political dynasty, he was educated at Harvard and Vanderbilt universities...
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For Peto's sake, give up
Fred Pearce talks to Richard Peto abouthis crusade to save 150 million lives by halving the number of adult smokers and why his research is under threat. Worldly Wise: 23 Few people can claim to have...
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The dynasty 2000 stakes
Who will be the next US president? Huw Richards takes soundings from the academic experts My name is Al Gore and I used to be the next president of the United States." As well as displaying a...
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Two eyes on the sky
Observatories and jobs were sacrificed to build twin giant telescopes, but was it all worth it? asks Alison Goddard In coming days the first of two giant telescopes will open its eye on the heavens....
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Higher channels
John Davies focuses on radio and television programmes likely to be of use to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Archaeology is doing well: last week both BBC2 and Channel 4...
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Mission: conserve highfliers
Time is running out for rare Himalayan butterflies, says David Spencer Smith The world's greatest concentration of high mountains lies within the Karakoram range in western Himalaya. It is an arid...
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New College, new milestone
Hermione Lee has notched up a double first for women at Oxford. Elaine Williams reports on the Virginia Woolf biographer's move In her biography of the novelist Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee admits...
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PM scraps black support scheme
On the night he won a second term of office, Australian prime minister John Howard promised he would pursue the cause of reconciliation with the nation's indigenous people as a major priority. Almost...
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Don't sack the gardener
Over-emphasis on plant chemistry is short-sighted and is killing botanical gardens, says Ghillean Prance. Over the past ten years, I have received a steady flow of requests asking me to intervene as...
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How to attract the funders in the new year
We hope you enjoyed 1998, because 1999 may well be eerily similar. First, as the bills for Christmas come home to roost, money. 1998 was a banner year for anyone lucky and clever enough to be in a...
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Scrutinise those overseas links
Problems in management of UK universities and colleges' overseas partnerships seem to be becoming a running sore in British higher education, the latest being the just-published National Audit Office...
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Figure it out
One can have such fun with figures. You reported on the proportions of UK undergraduates from various sources who registered at Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Economics ("Oxford raises...