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  1. On deciding who to clone

    In the late 1970s scientists and engineers decided to restrict genetic engineering until there had been a debate about the prospective uses and abuses of the, then, new technology. We are in a...

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  2. Biologists must wake up to warfare

    Biological weapons are a cheap and easy way to cause mass deaths, but British scientists are supremely indifferent says Wendy Barnaby THE stand-off in Iraq between Saddam Hussein and the United...

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  3. Power and glory games

    Can the North reforms be implemented without destroying Oxford's fundamental ethos, asks Vernon Bogdanor OXFORD is an ancient university and yet it operates on strikingly modern principles. Its...

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  4. With reference to references, let's forget all about them

    I FELT painfully sympathetic when I read Valentine Cunningham's account of the ceaseless round of reference writing (THES, January 30). Not because I have written many but because I have asked for so...

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  5. Bolton braced

    YOU imply that Bolton Institute's application to be able to use a university title has been rejected (THES, February 6). This is not the case. The Quality Assurance Agency has submitted advice to the...

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  6. Cambridge democracy

    IF THE board of scrutiny at Cambridge University is "an important legacy" of the Wass report (THES, January 30) or, in Anthony Edwards's stronger phrase, which you quote, "the only important proposal...

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  7. Cloning rights

    IN "Devaluing the human factor" (THES, February 6), the director-general of Unesco, Federico Mayor, supports a ban on human cloning and rejects defences of that practice that invoke a "right to...

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  8. Thoughtless theorising

    IS Catherine Belsey sending herself up? Her article (THES, January 30) on literary theory contains the following: "Young lecturers take it for granted" and "It must gall senior academics to be...

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  9. Let's have a grant lottery

    I WAS interested to read Les Allen's proposals (THES, February 6) for awarding research grants on the lottery principle. This would have the advantage both of dealing with the known biases of the...

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  10. Missing links?

    BY PLACING Simon Critchley's "Dare to think" next to your celebration of Michael Craig-Martin (THES, February 6), you ironically illustrate why "Young British Art" serves Charles Saatchi so neatly....

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  11. Purveyors of opium for the universities

    SUSSED. As Chris Grey wryly observes in his commentary on the use of "new methods" in teaching students ("Is staff development drivel?" THES, February 6), the advocates of the methods are not neutral...

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  12. Unions of unions

    FORMER members and officers of the Association of University and College Lecturers have far more common cause with the Association of University Teachers than was ever likely with Natfhe. Paul...

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  13. Unions of unions

    My comments on a possible Association of University Teachers/Natfhe merger may possibly have been sectoral, but they were certainly not sectarian - we who live in Northern Ireland know the meaning of...

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  14. Sharing the chores

    VALENTINE Cunningham (THES, January 30) may not be able to get his students to pay him for their references but he could get them to help with the work involved. He does not know, he says, "what it...

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  15. Don's Diary

    Thursday I am just getting used to smallness: small country, small town and a tiny college. Vidzemes Augstskola (ViA), a new university college in Valmiera in northern Latvia, has only 200 students,...

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