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A hostile takeover of global cinema
Global Hollywood
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Just for starters
Research Methods for Postgraduates
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Murky reflections of temples and images
Burma's Lost Kingdoms
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Laurie Taylor column
Maureen The Departmental Secretary Department of Media and Cultural Studies University of Poppleton Poppleton PP12 6HP Dear Maureen Yes, it's your old friend, Doctor Piercemuller. I'm dropping you a...
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Should we pay for the sins of our fathers?
American descendants of African slaves are among a growing band seeking reparation for wrongdoings committed more than a century ago. James Walvin asks whether they have a case. I have studied the...
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Pupils 'try before they buy'
Under pressure to recruit from a broader range of backgrounds, universities are offering school pupils a taste of college life during their summer break. Catherine Quinn reports. Victoria Narra, a...
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How to spot the students with an A for aptitude
Traditional exam results are not necessarily the best way to measure student potential. Harriet Swain reports on efforts to improve admissions procedures that also help to widen access for non-...
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Green father of earth mother
Once dismissed as heresy, Jim Lovelock's theory of earth as a single organism has become an accepted orthodoxy. Fred Pearce talks to the self-styled father of the environmental movement. Jim Lovelock...
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Do Hawaiian beaches hit your hot button?
A PhD in psychology has given Bill Siegel the edge in advising tourist boards. Adrian Mourby continues our summer series on tourism. In the 1960s, Bill Siegel was intending to do his PhD in...
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A grouse for Mr Bigwiz
V. S. Naipaul treats academics with disdain - and he doesn't think much of arts students either. He tells Andrew Robinson why those who can't deal with the complexities of science shouldn't be...
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Phantom traumas that cause real misery
Much chronic pain is little understood but the key to a cure seems to lie in the brain, argues Ronald Melzack. "Stop pain" has become a rallying cry for people who seek improved care for countless...
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When torment is my agony, your itch and his salvation
If doctors could offer us a world free of pain, would we really want it? Perhaps not, says Geoff Watts. "For all the happiness mankind can gain/ Is not in pleasure but in rest from pain", wrote poet...
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Distinct differences
Although the British Academy celebrated its centenary last month (Features, THES , June 28), its founding charter was granted on August 8, 1902. Of the academy's more than 750 fellows 100 years on,...
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Ageing, underpaid, but still able 1
Where is the evidence that older staff are under-productive ("Age law adds to campus burdens", THES , August 2)? By stating that European Directive 2000/78 on workplace discrimination could keep...