Batting for learning the limited-over way
In the late 1950s the English started to realise that the loss of Empire inevitably affected cricket. It was a leisurely pastime that had to change for the modern world. The limited-over variation...
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Asian flu spawns antibodies
When it became obvious about a year ago that certain Asian currencies were not going to regain their previous strength, several countries took drastic steps to stop sending students to study in the...
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Don's Diary
Monday Have been commissioned to write a book on Messianic Judaism, a new movement for Jews who believe that Jesus really was the Messiah after all. My wife and I are off to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...
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Fellowships
School of Oriental and African Studies Honorary fellowships: Basil Davidson, historian and author, senior research fellow at the University of Manchester, visiting professorship at the universities...
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Chairs
UMIST J. Hassard, head of the school of management at Keele University, chair in organisational analysis; B. Quinn, head of the department of mathematical sciences, Goldsmiths College, chair in...
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6 bottles of fine wine free when you subscribe
Satisfy more than your thirst for knowledge The Bordeaux Direct Classic European Six Bottle Selection Whites Le Bois de Combelle Chardonnay 1997 Coteaux de l'Ard che VdP (France) - Apple-fresh with...
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Daydream believer
Sack the shrink, your dreams are simply scrambled brain-stem impulses. Edward O. Wilson, best known for his love of ants, tells Tim Cornwell about his latest bugbear Ants appear to Edward O. Wilson...
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PhD salaries
Stipends for PhD students are typically less than two-fifths of the median starting salary for a graduate, according to figures from the research councils and the Association of Graduate Recruiters....
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Young galaxies, old child miners
Who are the shining stars among PhD students? Alison Goddard asked six supervisors to nominate those pursuing the most innovative ideas Doing a PhD is like giving birth - it is painful, drawn out and...
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'My God, what does she want?'
Physicians have traditionally been suspicious of the pleasure women have had in masturbation. In the 18th and 19th centuries the "mechanical and iniquitous excitations" of masturbation were thought...
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A sew-sew sex life?
In her research on early needlework magazines, Rachel Maines stumbled across an extraordinary link with women's sex aids. But the subsequent publication of her article on vibrators caused more of a...
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PhD fact file
The number of British students starting a PhD at a UK university dropped by 15 per cent between October 1994 and 1996, to 5,472, according to recent figures from the Office of Science and Technology...
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First steps along the road to space's final frontiers
Antimatter, the ideal fuel for space travel, is not the invention of Star Trek scriptwriters but does exist. But it will be a long time before antimatter-fuelled cruisers roam the universe. Sonya...
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Finishing schools or fleecers of fools?
Overseas students are flocking to the UK to do costly courses carrying no qualifications. Are they being ripped off? Phil Baty reports Every year thousands of foreign students come to the United...
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Some capital improvements
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