Bards and batsmen remembered
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Dirty technology, clean-cut solutions
New Directions in the Economic Theory of the Environment
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Loyalty and identity blossom in the global garden
Global Diasporas
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a Cambridge botanist with country connections: "Why is Herefordshire more...
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Thrills, spills and pills
In the first of our series on world thinkers, Carl Djerassi, the inventor of the female contraceptive pill, tells Martin Ince why he won't be doing the same for men Carl Djerassi changed the world...
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From the Teletubbies to Goya
Marina Warner is exploring the structure of imagination through a historical eye, focusing on dark monsters as well as jolly fantasy creatures. Harriet Swain reports In her mind's eye, Marina Warner...
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UFOs: Unidentified Fishy Objects?
Mermaids were the UFOs or aliens of Victorian times, says Harriet Ritvo, who has reeled in a collection of curious tales from an era with a mania for classifying and cataloguing animals. Tim Cornwell...
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Unmade in Sheffield
By day, Geoffrey Beattie analysed language, by night he listened to the sounds of Sheffield lives put on hold by Thatcherite economics I had only just moved to Sheffield as an academic when Mrs...
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The fat of the land
It costs the NHS Pounds 2 billion a year and it afflicts almost a fifth of all Britons, but it isn't even a government health target. Julia Hinde reports on the growing problem of obesity Britain is...
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Hitler's spectre haunts science
Justine Burley discusses one philosopher's attempt to rid modern cloning and genetics of the undeserved taint of Nazi eugenics Hitler once said: "The discovery of the Jewish virus is one of the...
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Jung, gifted and blackened
Sonu Shamdasani rebuts claims that Carl Jung, one of the giants of psychotherapy, was a neopagan charlatan who was obsessed with starting a pseudo-religious cult Modern psychotherapy has always held...
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Tories fume at Lib Dem betrayal
TOP-level talks between Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown led to Liberal Democrat peers "ratting" on an agreement to send the controversial Teaching and Higher Education Bill back to the committee stage,...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: of the 20 per cent of first-degree graduates who went on to further study: * 55 per cent of women went on to study for...
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ACLU in PC debate
Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union and professor of law at New York Law School, will debate the implications of political correctness on campus tomorrow during a three-...
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Labour's dealings with peer pressure
Huw Richards assesses how reform of the House of Lords could affect higher education REFORMING the House of Lords has bubbled away in the background of British politics for most of this century....