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Storm of stars
The Heavens on Fire
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Budgetary boorishness
The Chancellors
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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 won a Nobel prize but was forced to turn it down: "On they went, singing 'Eternal Memory...
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Reflections on life in the legal fast lane
The Justice Game
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Humour that tickles God
Redeeming Laughter
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Record of our time as it ebbs away
Modern Times, Modern Places
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A continent's essence slips by
River of Colour
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Cheep imitations of human thought
Despite many efforts to prove otherwise, the minds of animals are profoundly different from ours. We should stop trying to compare animals to us and start thinking about them as they are, argues...
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The living document
Is oral history a useful and reliable research tool? Academics are divided on the issue, says Harriet Swain Derek Lovatt, a 58-year-old recovering alcoholic, describes on tape growing up in the post-...
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Higher channels
John Davies selects radio and television programmes. (All times pm unless stated.) FRIDAY january 1 Global Sunrise (7.00 UK Horizon). How wildlife around the planet reacts to the dawn. First shown...
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Survival of the fitter
At a time when Labour is desperate to break the middle-class stranglehold on universities, Alan Thomson asks two working-class lecturers how they coped at college Roger Undy is a rarity among Oxford...
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Strange bouquet
Julia Hinde reports on a new controversial classification of plants, based not on their appearance but on their genes Step into Mark Chase's Kew Gardens laboratory and there is not a plant in sight....
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Bombing 'wrong way to topple Saddam'
Academics have criticised the bombing of Iraq by Britain and the United States. They say that the action could escalate, it will fail to destroy Saddam Hussein's regime and that there are better...
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Caledonian is guilty of bullying
A hard-hitting report has cleared Glasgow Caledonian University of academic malpractice and falsifying examination results, but has uncovered serious academic lapses and management bullying and...