Barrels of fishy spies
THE RECENT release into the Public Record Office of MI5 records for 1909-19 (THES, November 28) deserves to be met with a healthy dose of scepticism. The main class of material released (KV1)...
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Don's Diary
Monday A package arrives with material from the "What are Universities for?" conference, sponsored by Glaxo and The THES. I fight a rising wave of panic. Almost all the participants are vice...
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Danger in statutory controls
NEW ZEALAND's universities are not afraid of change. Through the 1990s, we adapted quickly to a completely different method of funding, a huge increase in the number of students, a sharp cut in...
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Strength through university unity
It has been put to me that a mathematician spends more time setting an examination but less time marking one than does a cultural historian. A university is made up of a variety of people from...
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1,000 extra doctors needed
BRITAIN needs to train 1,000 extra doctors every year to keep pace with changing health needs and working patterns, a new report claims. The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee this week...
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The prints of darkness
Stanley Kubrick
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Reclaiming a lost Pearl
Pearl S. Buck
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Making good
Journal of Electronics Manufacturing (four times a year)
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Throng numbers
International Journal of Population Geography (four times a year)
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So near and yet solar
Astronomy and Geophysics
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Weed 'em and reap
Journal of Vegetable Crop Production (twice a year)
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Death duties
Mortality (three times a year)
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Old Nick's cook who sliced steaks off brawnybums
Hogarth and his Times - Hogarth
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Baroque genius, ruthless robber
Bernini