Plane truths and sky labs
The Illegitimacy of Nationalism - The Savage Freud
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Holmes is where the heart is
The Collected Works of Justice Holmes
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That New World spat in full
The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of the American Revolution
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The courteous heroes of civil rights
Martin Luther King, Jr - I've Got the Light of Freedom
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To Albion's aid with gum and nylons
Rich Relations
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Twinkle, twinkle, little stars
The Physics of Stars - The Stars
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Welfare nightmare on Capitol Hill
Social Policy in the United States
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World saviours goof off at home
Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World - Joe Alsop's Cold War - Self-Rule - America's Mission
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a fantastic mathematician: "Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the aftertime, be herself a grown woman; and how she would...
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Speaking Volumes: The Penguin Pennings
Fred Inglis on Paul Jenning's The Penguin Pennings . In his wonderful essay "Hymns in a man's life" D. H. Lawrence speaks movingly of the great poems which have given shape to his life; but for all...
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Cyberspace: the ethical frontier
A revolution ignores moral issues at its peril, argue Simon Rogerson and Terrell Ward Bynum. Computing technology is the most powerful and flexible technology ever devised. For this reason it is...
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All power to the robots
Tony Durham meets Kevin Kelly, Wired editor and machine lover. Packing more technology than Popular Mechanics, while vying with i-D or GQ in the style stakes, Wired magazine seems a long road indeed...
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Fenland city on the frontline
Cambridge is more bound culturally to elitism and the pursuit of excellence than egalitarianism but it is about to embark on a tentative electronic experiment in that direction. The city's MP, Anne...
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Drowning in marking and time for a sea change
What do you call 500 computers at the bottom of the ocean? Most academics would say: "a damned good start!". That is understandable. They have quite enough on their plates without having to worry...
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On the borders of change
Helena Flusfeder on what the boycott of a conference in Israel means for ITlinks with the Middle East. The Arab stay-away from last month's Joint European Networking Conference in Tel Aviv prevented...