Worldwide web still has holes that need filling in
Bridging the Digital Divide
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The titans who won key battle
Colossus
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Coded intelligence
The Man Who Knew Too Much
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Sinister links to a deadly network
Terror on the Internet
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The oral history of a sacred vocabulary
The Language of the Gods in the World of Men
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You say potayto and I say potahto
How Language Works - Words, Words, Words
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So many tongues, so many ways to offend
Talking for Britain - C U Next Tuesday - The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a Nobel laureate famous for both his fiction and nonfiction: "Sadeq was to go with me from...
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Sleuth who rose up family tree
Genetic Linguistics
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Oy vey! Magical language is losing its learned roots
Words on Fire
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Humbug and rank hypocrisy
Unspeak
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In search of excellent profits, the gurus join the circus
Management Speak
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Oxbridge closes on Harvard in rankings
Cambridge and Oxford have climbed to second and third places in the latest world rankings and have almost closed the gap on Harvard, the world's number one. The 2006 World University Rankings,...
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Workloads 'go through roof'
Unions blame 'bums-on-seats' attitude for student-to-staff ratio shooting up as high as 46:1, writes Tony Tysome The ratio of students to academics at some universities is double the pupil-to-teacher...
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'I want to let children have a voice to understand the impact of ritalin'
Ilina Singh has won a Wellcome Trust award to help her pursue groundbreaking work on hyperactive children A researcher investigating hyperactivity in children has won the Wellcome Trust's first...