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On coming and going
Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture
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His life begins at baptism
The Life of Thomas More
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Terror and adulation
I Shall Bear Witness
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The Soviet empire in seven men
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
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Portugal's violent naval hero
The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama
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Early life in the frame
Hans Holbein
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Speaking Volumes: Wealth From Knowledge
Luke Georghiou on J. Langrish, M. Gibbons, W. G. Evans and F. R. Jevons's Wealth From Knowledge: A Study of Innovation in Industry . Wealth from knowledge - a phrase that could resonate as a slogan...
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The science police
Physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, critics of postmodernism, talk to Harriet Swain Two men are sitting at a cafe table in the mathematics department of Imperial College, London, quoting French...
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Out on Trent
Chris Johnston hears the outspoken views of the first professor of gay studies (left) Two events of recent weeks will go down in the history of gay and lesbian Britain. The vote in the House of...
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Engineered to perfection
Is the screening of embryos for cancer-causing genes just one more step down the slippery slope to designer babies? Sonya Dowsett meets Joy Delahanty, the geneticist who tried to produce a 'cancer-...
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Drugs? Dutch courage needed
The Netherlands has a uniquely liberal policy on drugs, and it is an approach MP and academic Rick van der Ploeg would like to see adopted in other European Union countries. Huw Richards reports That...
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Should scientists and doctors be allowed to screen embryos for genetic defects?
* Should scientists and doctors be allowed to screen embryos for genetic defects?; * Will screening eventually lead to embryos being destroyed because they are at risk of 'minor' disorders such as...
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Would-be contract killers
THES reporters look at the spread of casualisation and its effects and the campaign against it UNIONS are preparing a legal strategy against universities and colleges that employ staff on casual...
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Fact file
* Of the 59 per cent of first degree graduates who found work in the UK within six months of graduating in 1996-97: * 16 per cent found jobs classified as "managers or administrators" * 16 per cent...