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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 about Polynesian life: "Six months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of...
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The shooting of British icons
British Stars and Stardom - The British Cinema Book
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Eat, drink, be deranged and change your existence
Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease
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First media don is history in making
E. H. Carr - The New Nature of History - What is History?
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Laurie Taylor
All Members of Staff Department of media and cultural studies University of Poppleton Poppleton PP12 6HP Dear Everybody Just a brief note to let you know that I have arrived in Scarborough for my...
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Leader: Cambridge must do its bit if it wants a piece of action
The contract between universities and academics has often involved low pay and ill-defined responsibilities. But one of the minor perks was the off-chance of vast wealth from some invention or...
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Leader: Teaching quality finale not the end of the story
The publication of the last set of full teaching quality reports will be a cause for celebration for many in universities, if not for those choosing courses, who will have to make do with rather less...
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A woman on the edge of a nuclear precipice
Veteran nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott says a belligerent, ill-informed US president controlled by staff wanting ever-more exotic weapons has raised the risk of nuclear war to a post-cold war...
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Critics leave secret agent neither shaken nor stirred
How has James Bond retained his appeal for six decades? Maybe it's the evergreen allure of the alpha male, suggests Adrian Mourby. James Bond is 60 this year and he is pretty lucky to have made it so...
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Taking the measure of our mobility
Philip Collins went from housing estate to Houses of Parliament. Now, as director of the Social Market Foundation, his interests include the future of the university. Karen Gold reports. The hero of...
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Academic all-rounders stroll from the quad to the crease
The sound of leather on willow bowled over two scholars and enticed them away from their normal fields of study, writes Huw Richards. A political theorist and a materials scientist. A Russian-...
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Lessons from the loss of faith
The credibility of science now rests with co-authors, who need to ensure that they check a paper's validity before it is published, says Robert Park. It has been the summer of lost faith. Each day...
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Passion dies for bride of the state
Higher education has become a slave to its cold cash-monster master - in a humiliating and mutually unhealthy marriage, says Kenneth Minogue. There's an unmistakable touch of menace in the way Lord...
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Footprints in stolen sand
When you're lying on that beach in Belize congratulating yourself that as an ecotourist you're not damaging the environment and are helping the local economy, think again, says Rosaleen Duffy. When...