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Planet sweet or sour?
Ultimate Security: - Scarcity or Abundance?
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Russell takes a positive step
Toward The Principles of Mathematics, 1900-1902
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Sub-human treatment
Animals and Human Society - In the Name of Science - The Covenant of the Wild
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Talking pictures (no vision needed)
Picture Theory
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New year honours
Knights Bachelor Professor James Armour, for services to the veterinary profession and education. Michael Bond (professor of psychological medicine and vice principal, University of Glasgow) for...
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Events
INHERITANCE Photographs of three generations of Welsh home and family by Peter Finnemore will be exhibited at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre (January 9-February 20). Details: Jenny Fell, Aberystwyth...
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Awards
UNIVERSITY OF WALES, BANGOR Gerwyn Williams, is the first person to win a National Eisteddfod literary competion while a member of the Welsh department. He was awarded the crown in August 1994 for...
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Tall story: the tale of a tail:Books
SEISMOSAURUS: THE EARTH SHAKER BY DAVID D. GILLETTE Columbia University Press, 205pp, Pounds 26.50 ISBN 0 231 07874 9 Americans frequently claim to produce the biggest, fastest or whatever...
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Don's Diary
Monday: Collect 31 forms for the end-of-term feedback. Horrified to discover that they are all the same for lecture courses, practical sessions and tutorials. We are asking students to grade their...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a Croydon schoolteacher who was twice prosecuted for obscenity: "But no, he would not give in. Turning sharply, he walked towards the city's gold phosphorescence....
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Speaking Volumes: James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar
Kenneth McConkey on James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar. A couple of years ago with the millennium heaving into view, I dreamt of giving up higher education to write a three-volume history of...
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Strathclyde University's theatre group
(Photograph) - Ian Skewis and Sarah Grochala of Strathclyde University's theatre group play the title roles in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida at the university's drama centre. It is being...
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Workers carry on regardless of tax rate
High taxes do not discourage people from working, say researchers in the psychology of economics. The comments come a week before the budget -- psychologists are complaining that economists are not...
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MPs pour scorn on scrutiny
MPs have condemned the Government's efficiency scrutiny of public research laboratories as a waste of researchers' time. The probe may also have been "profoundly and unnecessarily damaging to their...