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The father of the family album
The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot - Specimens and Marvels
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High life is in the blood
How do communities in the Andes and Tibet cope with living at such high altitudes? Cynthia Beall believes it is a question of evolution. Steve Farrar reports. It was not an ideal start. En route to...
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Astute decision by the academy or deliberate provocation of China?
Having campaigned relentlessly for a Nobel for literature, China was outraged when one was awarded to dissident Gao Xingjian. Howard Goldblatt reflects on a controversial award. It has been said...
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Soul Mountain - an extract
Above the branches of the two spreading elms, one leaning to the left and the other to the right, there was originally a stretch of shining white water, like snow which had fallen on a flat cement...
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To move a Mountain can take a Nobel
In China, his writing made him an enemy of the state. In the West, he barely sold enough books to buy cigarettes. Karen Gold profiles the enigmatic Nobel-winner Gao Xingjian. It is a good story: a...
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If you want people to take your advice...
...befriend a civil servant. Virginia Berridge discusses how scientists can turn research into public policy. In the recent panics caused by BSE, genetically modified food, food poisoning and foot-...
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Latest UK news
Means test denies medics NHS bursaries Fast-track medical students are set to lose thousands of pounds in National Health Service bursaries after a ruling that they will be means tested on...
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Latest international news
Hebrew University hits fundraising target Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, which set out to raise 2.5 billion shekels (£416 million) in five years, has achieved its target in just three years and has...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Nanostructures that have been imaged and analysed by US researchers at Northwestern University might make a hard coating for gears or an oxidation-resistant coating for aircraft...
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Latest international news
Australian quality agency appoints chief Australia's University Quality Agency has appointed David Woodhouse as its first chief executive. Dr Woodhouse is director of New Zealand's...
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Latest UK news
Row could damage business school recruitment The head of Oxford's Said Business School has warned that recruitment could suffer as a result of controversy over the involvement of the prime minister’s...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Poor employment prospects among ethnic minorities are to be tackled with a £15 million fund to be announced as the government launches the second phase of the New Deal. Norman Borlaug...
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Latest international news
Norway may set up 14 new institutions Norwegian minister of education and research Trond Griske has tabled a bill to set up 14 new universities and university colleges, bringing the total to 18....