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He started and he usually finished
The Cambridge Companion to Schubert - Schubert - Schubert and His World
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Wasps with a vicious sting
Our Guys
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Text and the single girl
The New Woman
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Chairs
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology J. Vickerman, former Royal Society European research fellow at the Technische Hogeschool and reader at UMIST, has been appointed to a...
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Grants
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Research councils Drs R. Walmsley, Fielden and Goddard, Pounds 179,684 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (...
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Appointments
University of Teesside John Hackney, fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants, chairman of Post Officer Users National Council and of Northumbria Flood Defence, member of Environment Agency's...
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Honours
University of Birmingham DD: Lavinia Byrne, teacher, writer and broadcaster on religious issues; Mary Tanner, former theological secretary of the Church of England's Board for Mission and Unity,...
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The feminist from suburbia
Feminist doyenne Elaine Showalter admits that she is bourgeois, likes shopping and is a bit girly, but tells Jennifer Wallace why looking suburban has been very useful The only part of my life that...
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Why family ties bind the nation
Divorce leaves women to look after children and creates a burden on the state when lonely people grow old. Paul Ormerod and Robert Rowthorn argue that people should be encouraged to marry for life...
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A word in your shell-like
In our series on academics' rooms, Steve Jones reveals his love of snails to Kate Worsley, but tries to hide his sense of humour We have come to Steve Jones's study to see his famous collection of...
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The best of both worlds
A few academics manage to combine the benefits associated with full-time work with the freedom to 'have a life' - by job-sharing. Simon Midgley reports On Mondays and Tuesdays Leslie Brubaker teaches...
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The ascent of man onto his feet
Fossil ear bone canals may hold the secret of when man first walked upright.Ayala Ochert reports aspart of a THES serieson young researchers Palaeoanthropology, the study of human origins, got off to...
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The pain and the gain
An attack on five Oxford scientists has put the controversy over animal research back in the spotlight. Phil Baty reports The Animal Liberation Front is keen to make its presence felt by the new...
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Dogs killed
Last year, Angela Walder applied her own version of the cost-benefit analysis to a 1987 case from John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, where 42 dogs died. As part of a study into the "immunosuppressive...