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  1. First Impressions

    This week's First Impressions comes from a English poet known for his critical works: "An ambiguity, in ordinary speech, means something very pronounced, and as a rule witty or deceitful." Entries to...

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  2. Cocaine comes out of the ghetto

    A VERY GREEDY DRUG: COCAINE IN CONTEXT By Jason Ditton and Richard Hammersley Harwood Academic Publishers, 160pp, Pounds 11.00 ISBN - 3 7186 5904 2 Insubstantial media scares about new illicit drugs...

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  3. Christmas myth exploded

    THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MEDICINE Edited by Roy Porter Cambridge University Press 400pp, Pounds 24.95 ISBN - 0 521 4412117 When I was a medical student in the 1950s a distinguished...

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  4. The doctors' fairy godmother

    George Radda looks at the evolving financial relationship between the Medical Research Council and academia The Medical Research Council plays a crucial role in advancing clinical practice in the...

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  5. Letter

    In the start of a debate about the pros and cons of a superleague of universities in the United Kingdom, Frank Webster stated that the "1996 research assessment exercise demonstrated nothing if not...

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  6. Letter

    In arguing that the diversity of the higher education system should be recognised, Frank Webster proposes the designation of an elite group of research universities and suggests that, in time,...

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  7. Letter

    You report (THES, January 10) that environmental scientists feel that they were done down by the earth scientists in the recent RAE. One test of their allegation is to look at changes in rating of...

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  8. Letter

    Your readers must be thoroughly confused about which university in Northern Ireland received which top ratings in the RAE. Your story (THES, January 3) stated - incorrectly - that Queen's received...

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  9. Exiled by foes, silenced by friends

    Trapped for the moment in the West, what can Edward Said do for the only place he ever felt he 'belonged', his native Palestine? Jennifer Wallace met him in London Intellectuals ought to be attuned...

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  10. Letter

    SINCE my department got a 4 and my university shot up to 15th in your league table, my stress symptoms have disappeared. My eczema has cleared up beautifully. Paul A.Atkinson School of social and...

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  12. Bark and bite of bioethical watchdogs

    Ruth Chadwick charts the ethical course of revolutionary genetics The challenges for bioethics - the exploration of the ethical, social and legal issues raised by advances in medicine and the life...

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  13. It's not too late to say sorry

    Education troubleshooter Sir Ron Dearing protected the National Coal Board from some of the political consequences of the 1966 Aberfan disaster, according to papers released by the Public Records...

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  14. Orange disorder

    An Ulsterman has returned after 20 years teaching politics in Australia to accuse Unionists of stalling the peace talks and promoting sectarianism. The son of a late Ulster Unionist hardliner, who...

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  15. Abuse, lies, and videotape

    Paediatrician David Southall talks to Julia Hinde about his pioneering use of secret cameras to catch parents abusing their children and the criticism it has aroused For the past ten years a Keele...

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