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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a writer who was active in the Voluntary Euthanasia Society: "Our hypnotic enslavement to the numerical aspects of reality has dulled our perception of non-...
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Speaking Volumes: The Ego and the Id
Nicholas Tucker on Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the Id . I first encountered Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the Id as a schoolboy, appropriately enough in Hampstead Public Library. My explosively...
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Honorary degrees
STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY. DLitt: Ken Loach, film director; Tom Paulin, poet and critic; George Rodger, documentary photographer. DSc: Eric Hassall, chairman of the British Geological Survey Board,...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL. Research contracts. Dr I. Harvey, Pounds 99,896 from the South-West Regional Health Authority (a study of factors associated with variation in prescribing costs among general...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE. Christopher Hutchison, department of biological sciences at the University of Dundee, has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Leave Fellowship. LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES...
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Appointments
HERTFORD COLLEGE, OXFORD. Walter Bodmer, director-general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, has been appointed principal of the college from September 1, 1996. WOOLWICH COLLEGE. Geoff Pine,...
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Water and troubled oil
Greenpeace may have won the political battle to stop Shell sinking its oil platform, Brent Spar, at sea but it has not won the scientific debate argues Tony Rice. Brent Spar is safely at anchor in...
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Events
FREDERICK DOUGLASS. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Frederick Douglass's first trip to Britain, The David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University will host an international...
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Chairs
ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL. The following titles have been conferred on: Paola Camici, consultant clinical scientist, now professor of cardiovascular pathophysiology; Raj Thakker, Medical...
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Awards
THE BRITISH ACADEMY. Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies - Professor A. van der Woude. Derek Allen Prize (in Musicology) - P. Holman. Grahame Clark Medal - Dr J. Coles. Kenyon Medal for Classical...
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Promise made real
Chris Hutchison reports from Montpellier on a bold attempt to bring together disparate disciplines at the cutting edge of high technology Forget the Festival de Cannes - it was computer scientists...
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Edinburgh wins Pounds 1m library slot
Edinburgh University's data library has won Pounds 1 million to back its status as the latest United Kingdom National Dataset Centre on the Internet. The designation from the Joint Information...
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Hyped text in context
Simon Jenkins argues that the printed word has little to fear from the Net One of the most common questions put to people in my profession is why is the media so obsessed with grimness? Why is our...
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Credit worthy
Acorn is offering interest-free credit on its computer range. The move comes after the appointment of David Lee as managing director to succeed Sam Wauchope and the alliance with Microsoft as a "...