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  1. Myopic attitudes

    I run a small company that produces documentation for visually impaired people. Last year, we were approached by one of the oldest universities in the country - it had a visually impaired student but...

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  2. Freedom on the front line... for now

    To criticise the Sudanese regime is to risk arrest, torture and even death. However, reports Chris Bunting, academics are still able to speak their minds in the classroom. On September 10, Shamsuldin...

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  3. Is the party of protest any closer to power?

    Post Hartlepool, the Liberal Democrats may be feeling on the up. But Don MacIver urges caution. After a run of by-election successes and an improved position in the opinion polls, the Liberal...

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  4. Place for books, bytes and e-sites

    Gone are the days when the library was just for quiet study. Anna Fazackerley looks at the revolution taking place at the British Library and in UK universities. Tradition has it that a librarian...

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  5. Adapt to survive the next chapter

    Picture this scenario. You head off to your university library for an intensive day wading through a stack of journals or books relevant to your research; yet when you arrive you discover not the...

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  6. The price of pro$perity is often war

    Why do economies collapse? Harold James notes that global conflict can cause major economic slumps - but that could change as warfare grows cheaper. Below, Simon Targett ponders lessons from the...

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  7. Fading powers and rising stars

    "It's the economy, stupid!" This sentence, scribbled on the notice board in Bill Clinton's campaign office, became the soundbite of the 1992 US presidential election. It described the view that the...

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  8. The paradigms of people power

    The global anticapitalist movement links millions of ordinary people worldwide and has no historical precedent. So why are so few anthropologists involved? asks Nancy Lindisfarne. The third European...

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