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What Democracy Is For

What Democracy Is For

The Humboldt Current
Why Aren't They Here?
Baboon Metaphysics
More Sex Is Safer Sex
Science and the Indian Tradition
Nazi Games
Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life
Ian McEwan's Enduring Love - J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye - Richard Wright's Native Son
The Future of Journalism in Advanced Democracies
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a hard-drinking author now better remembered for his stage plays: "London, the crouching monster, like...
Deadline: 30/11/2007
Plans to award research grants on the basis of 'economic impact' are sparking widespread anxiety, reports Melanie Newman Concerns that academics may not win research grants unless they can...
Could genes explain the controversial behaviour of Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard University, who caused an uproar when he questioned whether women possessed the innate potential for...
Wellcome Trust's Katrina Nevin-Ridley urges her fellow publicists to help researchers get the message across Katrina Nevin-Ridley, head of media at the Wellcome Trust, wants to recruit university...