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  1. Emotional responses? 2

    Mary Evans cited Poppleton's Maureen as an example of the way that "female staff should stop filling the emotional gaps left by poor male managers". I am delighted to see that, judging from the...

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  2. Brought to book

    Jon Baldwin's article (Opinion, August 26) prompts me to contrast my experiences as an independent researcher in accessing UK and Canadian university libraries. In the two UK establishments with...

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  3. Relatively speaking

    On what grounds could "lecturer's leaders" object to the proper appointment of staff because they are related to existing staff ("Anger at Brunel over recruits' family ties", August 26)? I have...

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  4. Cash for answers

    For researchers in the arts and humanities, libraries are an important "non-laboratory estates resource" ("Ill-prepared institutions may miss out on cash", August 26). When the libraries are of...

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  5. Chemical reaction

    At its recent conference, the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry passed a resolution noting with concern the decline in the provision of chemistry teaching in British universities...

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  6. Blinding debate

    It is becoming quite a game to scan an article by Simon Blackburn to spot the gratuitous gibe at at the UK or US governments ("Face it, maybe you are a camel", August 26). It is a pity that a leading...

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  7. Alleluia, God goes global

    The spread of Enlightenment ideas was expected to lead to a decline in world faiths and the triumph of secularisation. But religion is flourishing and evolving, especially in the developing world...

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  8. How rice and peas kept us warm for a few millennia

    Man-made global warming 8,000 years ago may have helped stave off an ice age. Sumitra Rajagopalan reports Forget Kyoto. By the time Christ appeared on Earth, the planet was already belching enough...

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  9. The key to life? Use your noodle

    Concerned that Intelligent Design theory was an attempt to sneak God into science lessons through the back door, physicist Bobby Henderson proposed an equally plausible explanation for life, the...

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  10. Snuggle up with a blood-soaked tale

    The darkest storyteller of all was self-centred and a poor guest yet his grisly visions still thrill, says Julia Briggs When I was six, my father gave me a volume of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy...

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  13. Blood test to detect prion traces

    Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 An international team of researchers has succeeded in designing a biochemical technique that allows the reliable detection of malformed proteins that cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob...