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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 19th-century novelist and friend of Dickens: "It was a dark and stormy...
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Hideaway hides
The battlelines over furs in fashion have shifted since the 1980s. Julia Emberley reports on the latest twists in the debate People trash it, treasure it, fight over it. People wear it, trap it, skin...
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A Stone Age mind-blower
Steven Pinker's deconstruction of the mind suggests that our 20th century leisure pursuits are driven by primitive genetic imperatives. Tim Cornwell reports Steven Pinker is a movie buff - or was, he...
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Learned outsiders
Refugees from Central Europe have had a huge impact on British historiography since 1945. Peter Alter reflects on the reasons for their success The two greatest historians of the postwar era, Elton...
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The value of sitting
What is an academic's role on a parliamentary committee? Anthony King tells of his work on the Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life Three years ago I met my wife in a London restaurant before...
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Unleashing plant power
John Wilkinson, who is working to meld modern science and herbal medicine, may have found a plant treatment for Aids. Ayala Ochert continues a series of profiles of young researchers John Wilkinson...
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'It's like a meat market, but I would do anything if they give me a job'
In a cavernous hall in the basement of the Toronto Sheraton Centre, a scene unfolds that has shades of some nightmarish future world in its terrifying anonymity. It is the interview room for the job...
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The marketplace of ideas, paradigms and parables
Michael Berube patrols the halls of Toronto's hotels boasting an electric-blue suit, a shock of black hair, and a high-voltage energy. Berube, of the University of Illinois, made his name with Life...
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Animals and the merciful release
A. R. Michell believes that animal owners and vets today are prolonging the lives of some pets unnecessarily It may still be unacceptable to practise euthanasia - gently inducing death to avoid...
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Absolutely confabulous
At the Modern Language Association's annual conference, 9,000 literary scholars gathered to debate papers whose titles guarantee media ridicule while graduates chased that elusive first job. Tim...
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Petition attacks TVU senior management
About 300 staff and students at Thames Valley University have signed a petition saying they lack confidence in vice chancellor Mike Fitzgerald and his management team and calling for action from the...
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Deadline for New Deal cash approaches
COLLEGES have just over a week left in which to apply for extra money to educate more young people and long-term unemployed adults. Up to Pounds 6 million is available for 1997-98. Colleges have...
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AUT campaigns against short-term contracts
The Association of University Teachers has begun a campaign against short fixed contracts for academic staff. In her New Year address, AUT president Penny Holloway called on higher education...
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Students' perceptions of teaching examined
The Teacher Training Agency is joining forces with the National Union of Teachers to conduct a national survey of sixth-form and further education students' perceptions of teaching as a profession....