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America's citadels of testosterone
Manhood at Harvard
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Black sailors in dark times
Black Jacks
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Aware, but not with it
The Virgin Encyclopaedia of Music - The Virgin Encyclopaedia of Popular Music
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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 distinguished left-wing double act: "Agricultural England in the 19th...
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Appointments
UKCOSA Clive Saville has succeeded Maeve Sherlock as chief executive of the Council for International Education. He joins UKCOSA after more than 30 years in the Department for Education and...
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Honorary degrees
University of Teesside LLD: Emily Mary Blatch, life peer, former education minister and minister of state in the Home Office; Robert Aebersold, president of Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania;...
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The plight of the living dead
There are 1,000 new cases of zombiism reported in Haiti each year. Are zombies really the dead brought back to life by sorcerers, as locals believe, or are they people suffering from mental illness?...
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Sum people ...
Why does Ian Stewart find it impossible to ignore the legs of an animal if he spots one walking down the road? It's all down to his mathematical mind, he says What is it like to be a mathematician?...
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Impaired by our limitations
Children are born with impairments but disabled by society, Tom Shakespeare tells Ayala Ochert in our series on young researchers When Barnardo's conducted a project last year called "What works for...
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Something fishy about that Peruvian in Glasgow
Previously restricted reports from MI5's first ten years throw light on the shadowy characters suspected of spying during the first world war. John Davies reports On 11 April 1915 Ludovic Hurwitz y...
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Nature's defeat of nurture
Studies of twins have shown that behaviour is influenced by our genes to a surprising extent. Lawrence Wright examines the social implications Psychology has been shaken in recent years by studies of...
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Art for our sake
The shortlisted artists for Tuesday's Turner Prize are less interested in conventional considerations of colour and form than in the circumstances in which work is produced and received. John Slyce...
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To stick, scrap or juggle?
The Oxbridge college fees debate is coming to the boil. Harriet Swain reports on the issues at stake Ministers deciding the fate of the Oxbridge college fee are considering three main options. The...
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Blind lecturer a judge
A SENIOR law lecturer has overcome disability and discrimination to become the United Kingdom's second-ever blind judge. Amir A. Majid, 44, a reader in law at London Guildhall University, has been...