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Fishy frolics in Athens
Courtesans and Fishcakes
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Lacking a quantum leap
Albert Einstein
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Sorting history from hysteria
Rereading German History 1800-1996
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Cruel cousins or blood brothers?
Stalinism and Nazism
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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 an especially "wonderful" book by a palaeontologist: "Not since the Lord...
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Turkey with intellectual trimmings
Who would you invite to Christmas dinner? Katrina Wishart asked five academics to nominate their festive favourites Harry Kroto In The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski describes an incident during...
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Unwanted presence
A ghost is troubling the fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Elaine Williams reports One evening last spring one of the fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge, was hosting a private dinner in a parlour above...
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Gold, Frankincense and Ur
Julia Hinde talks to the academics who have created this year's most clever gifts On the shelves of children's books, nestling between Joanna Spyri's Heidi and Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure...
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It's the way he tells them
Does one virgin birth, a few awed shepherds and a gang of loud angels make a good but implausible story, or a major chapter in divine revelation?Elaine Williams asked theologians for their views of...
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A place at the table of despair
Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia have been hijackedby cultural studies academics and theorised to abstraction, argues Susie Orbach. Bingeing and vomiting are expressions of women's...
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From outrage to cant
David Cesarani argues that Swiss banks hid looted Jewish gold not because they were Nazis but because business is business The recent London conference on "Nazi gold" brought together from 40...
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Reuters discovers world of secret dataholics
The world is seeing the rise of a generation of "dataholics", according to a Reuters survey. More than half the respondents said they craved information and got a "high" when they found it.
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: 7.7 per cent of males and 6.1 per cent of females were awarded first-class honours for first degrees 36.5 per cent of males...
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Techies in demand
UNIVERSITY underfunding is undermining the Canadian software industry's already difficult drive to fill its many vacancies, writes Philip Fine. The information technology industry is thriving and...