Praise the lard!
Our ideal of beauty may be absurdly thin now, but history shows fat will become absolutely flabulous again Try this regime for six weeks: eat fat, as much of it whenever, wherever you please, in any...
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Money modellers miss the point
Economists must address the real world or risk losing their best students and researchersto other disciplines What is wrong with contemporary academic economics? There seems little doubt that...
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Sex and slugs and rocky roles
What happens when boy-girl meets girl-boy? If they're slugs living north ofManchester, not a lot: they just mate with themselves. Steve Jones explains the origins of sex Look at the fashion pages,...
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Bird songs tune into the wild
Why do small birds risk attracting predators by singing atop trees? Peter Slater tells Julia Hinde his theory, which he will flesh out in a forthcoming Darwin lecture In a world teeming with...
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Why Will was no great shakes before the spin
Were the greatsborn great or are historians the victims of some polished cross-century hype? Harriet Swain reports. It is hardly surprising that an age which produced Liz Hurley, who shot to fame by...
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East, West, talk is the best
The recent Islamophobia in the press results in a kind of Westophobia among Muslims, points out Akbar Ahmed, who says dialogue is the only way forward. The reaction to Prince Charles's speech last...
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Awards
Royal Academy of Engineering The academy's engineering graduate prize was awarded to the following: Martin Davy, mechanical engineering, University College London; Helen Emerson, civil engineering,...
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Beggars belief
Just when you were starting to think that the level of political debate could not fall much further without the protagonists starting to grunt, in steps alumnus to be proud of No: 85 with his...
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Spruce Bruce: the National Galleries of Scotland
(Photograph) - Spruce Bruce: the National Galleries of Scotland have produced a CD-ROM which stars a lifesize reconstruction of Robert the Bruce, who defeated the English at Bannockburn in 1314. Iain...
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V-cs attack VAT and pay levels
VAT REGULATIONS and other "unnecessary and intrusive" rules and financial constraints on universities should be scrapped, the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has told the Dearing inquiry...
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Private sector poised for boom
PRIVATE higher education could absorb rising student numbers without increasing the Government's education budget burden and without excluding students unable to pay tuition fees, a key private...
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Accredit where it's due
Students doing voluntary work may soon be able to gain a certificate recognising the skills they have gained. Scadu is pioneering the idea in eight student groups in early February. It hopes...
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Royal Society calls for teaching boost
THE ROYAL Society has told the Dearing inquiry into higher education that a teaching and learning council should be created to encourage innovative, high-quality teaching in universities, writes Kam...
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Royal Society calls for teaching boost
* A long-term study of graduate destinations has been submitted to the Dearing inquiry to help it make better estimates of graduate supply and demand, writes Olga Wojtas. Iain McNicoll, professor of...
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Imperial gets most research kit kitty
Imperial College, London, and Warwick University have come out in front of Oxford and Cambridge in a national competition for research equipment funding. Imperial was the biggest winner with five...