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  1. Campaigner dies before MBE

    The founder and director of Seriously Ill for Medical Research has died from a progressive genetic condition shortly after learning that he was to receive an MBE. Andrew Blake, who suffered from...

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  2. Shine a light on bright future for chemistry

    Chemistry in higher education needs to be exciting and realistic, according to David Giachardi In the 21st century, chemistry will be the pivotal science. It will underpin and drive advances in the...

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  3. Customer concerns

    Treating students as customers damages the academic community, argues Stephen Burwood It has become commonplace for students to be described as "customers". This is, of course, the sort of...

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  4. More than a research factory

    True scholarship involves a range of intellectual activities, writes Stephen Logan What are universities for? One function might be to maintain a degree of historical impartiality about the cultural...

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  5. Why I ..believe guns do not increase violence

    Gun control advocates have praised the English model, where the toughest arms restrictions of any democracy are credited with producing a low level of violent crime. But the historical record...

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  8. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a novelist who worked at the Foreign Office: "The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't...

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  13. Swiss 'strippers' remove leaves

    Harrap French Dictionary, Unabridged Edition Vol 1 English-French - Harrap French Dictionary, Unabridged Edition Vol 2 French-English

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