First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the work of a scientist whose writing helped to forge the modern...
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The Four Stages of Matrimony!
(Photograph) - The Four Stages of Matrimony!: "Smick-smack"; "Hither and thither"; "Thwick-thwack"; "May the devil take them that brought you and me together!" 1796 print by Richard Newton, published...
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Running before he has learnt to walk
Tony Blair's government is one year old today. What challenges lie ahead, what has it achieved so far and, if Labour celebrates ten years in power, how will Britain look in 2007? The experts give...
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Planet's red but so is the ink
The European Space Agency's parlous finances are jeopardising its best chance to launch a mission to Mars for a generation. Julia Hinde reports. Either Europe goes to Mars with Mars Express, or it...
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Life on Mars?
If Beagle 2 eventually does land on Mars, what signs of extraterrestrial life will it find? Little green men are out but Mars and other planets may well harbour micro-organisms, bacteria or other...
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Testimony and the nice little earner
Academics can make a lotof money as expert witnesses but the ivory tower is a poor training ground for the witness box Kate Worsley reports. You are worrying about money, again. You are doing okay...
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False trails into the mists of time
Real understanding of the mind is being hindered by a simplistic link to the human race's hunter-gatherer past, argues Steven Mithen. These are heady days for archaeology. Not only has the past...
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The United States
Tony Blair's government is one year old today. What challenges lie ahead, what has it achieved so far and, if Labour celebrates ten years in power, how will Britain look in 2007? The experts give...
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Education
Tony Blair's government is one year old today. What challenges lie ahead, what has it achieved so far and, if Labour celebrates ten years in power, how will Britain look in 2007? The experts give...
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Europe
Dissociating itself from a Thatcherite past, the Labour government projects a vision of the UK as a member of a moral, European-wide society with humanitarian credentials to be upheld wherever...
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Welfare
Tony Blair's government is one year old today. What challenges lie ahead, what has it achieved so far and, if Labour celebrates ten years in power, how will Britain look in 2007? The experts give...
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Northern Ireland
Tony Blair's government is one year old today. What challenges lie ahead, what has it achieved so far and, if Labour celebrates ten years in power, how will Britain look in 2007? The experts give...
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The economy
Tony Blair's government is one year old today. What challenges lie ahead, what has it achieved so far and, if Labour celebrates ten years in power, how will Britain look in 2007? The experts give...
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Health
Tony Blair's government is one year old today. What challenges lie ahead, what has it achieved so far and, if Labour celebrates ten years in power, how will Britain look in 2007? The experts give...
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The constitution
Tony Blair's government is one year old today. What challenges lie ahead, what has it achieved so far and, if Labour celebrates ten years in power, how will Britain look in 2007? The experts give...