Lost science jobs lead to standstill
The appointment of France's first scientific council, the Comite d'Orientation Strategique, to advise the government directly on research policy, was marked by 24-hour closures at four major...
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Few tears shed for privatiser
Indian education minister Arjun Singh, who started the process of privatisation of higher education, has quit, creating a political crisis for the ruling Congress party. Few tears are being shed for...
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A credit to the bank
Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
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A hot little sister
Venus
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Genial hosts and unwanted guests
Encyclopaedia of Virology
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Guerrillas in the mists of time
War in the Shadows
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Labour disputes
The History of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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Last and first man of vision
While reading this book, I was continually hypnotised -- that is scarcely too strong a word -- by the penetrating gaze from Howard Coster's portrait on the jacket. I found myself trying to bridge the...
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Lawrence's Mexican hat'
The Visionary D. H. Lawrence
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Masterpieces and the master race
The Rape of Europa
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Tales of an unknown cow
The Oxford Medical Companion
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The beneficiaries of an ill will
Genetic Variation and Human Disease
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a chemist: ". . . This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of the me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question...
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Speaking Volumes: Tom Paine's Pamphlets
Harvey J. Kaye on Tom Paine's Pamphlets. I have testified in these pages and elsewhere to the influence upon me of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, Barrington Moore's Social...
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Radiography wins a dramatic role
Ngaio Crequer talks to four academics about how the National Health Service reforms are affecting their daily work of training students, and finds them largely enthusiastic about the links between...