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  9. First impressions

    This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an early 19th-century autobiography that was certainly published but whether...

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  10. Too young, too far, too fast?

    Alexander Faludy, 14, is the latest prodigy to enter university early. For many others, that fast track has led only to disaster. Harriet Swain meets academics seeking safer ways to teach gifted...

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  11. Daniel in the lions' den

    A review of a book about ordinary Germans' complicity in the Holocaust has made the author reach for his lawyers. Tim Cornwell reports Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is politely but firmly not talking about...

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  12. Dark side of the sun

    The sun is not round. It is more like a bag of jelly. Next year's eclipse will plunge Britain into mid-morning darkness and give scientists a chance to learn more about this second generation star....

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  13. The eclipse of 1999

    Dark side of the sun John Parkinson is among those aiming to make the most of Britain's 1999 eclipse. "We want to get as many people as possible to understand what is going on and get involved with...

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  14. Mirror of the world's workings

    Concluding our series on the uses of critical theory, anthropologist Marilyn Strathern explores where illumination ends and information overload begins In his novel The Island of the Day Before, the...

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  15. Prodigies and their university teachers

    Too young, too far, too fast? Ruth Lawrence, probably the best-known young university entrant, now has a year-long research and teaching post at Givat Ram University in Jerusalem. It is the first...

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