Surviving Bhopal: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and Oral Testimonials of Women in the Wake of an Industrial Disaster
Mary Evans on the politics of corporate crime and its social costs for the poor in the global South
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Belonging in an Adopted World: Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption
We became the proud owners of a new dog a few weeks ago - a gorgeous golden retriever puppy with huge paws and a voracious appetite for shoes. Although he's our dog, I certainly didn't give birth to...
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The Canon: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
"The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." Few sentences have proven as prophetic as this one, taken from the first paragraph of W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk...
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Book of the Week: The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour
Prince of Darkness or bringer of the light of modernisation? Vernon Bogdanor on Labour's chiaroscuro genius
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Decisions, decisions
Too many cheeses can drive society crackers. Slovenian scholar Renata Salecl tells Matthew Reisz about the paralysing effects of the Western ideology du jour: the 'tyranny of choice'
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The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy
Tim Birkhead appreciates a great science writer's somewhat erratic tour of avian fidelity and infidelity
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Pope and Devil: the Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich
The Vatican's dealings with Nazi Germany have been a major source of controversy for decades. From the first staging of Rolf Hochhuth's play, The Representative, in 1963 to the publication in 1999 of...
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The heat is on to turn down that dial
Universities are offering students incentives to cut their energy consumption. Nicholas Chan reports
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Odds and quads
Pillar Man, a bronze sculpture by the Norwegian artist Nicolaus Widerberg, is set against a wall of Northumbria University's gallery in Newcastle.It stands 6.5m tall and emerges from a stone "river...
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Scots band together over commitment to research
Research is costly, but Scotland is against creating teaching-only institutions, writes Hannah Fearn
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THE World University Rankings
More than two months ago, we published the first draft of our planned new methodology for the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.The draft, detailing how we will draw together 13...
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Grant Winners
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILCareer Acceleration Fellowship scheme£38 million has been awarded to 46 researchers under the Leadership and Career Acceleration Fellowship scheme to...
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Blog confidential: Insistence and resistance
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Insistence and resistance
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Appointments
University of Edinburgh, Greg WalkerThe Regius chair of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh will be filled by Greg Walker, who was been Masson professor of English at the...
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Array of errors, but Spanish chemist stands by concept
Watchdog recommends retraction of Science paper after 'indications' of bad practice. Paul Jump writes