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Higher Channels
Pick of the week How are your stress levels? Channel 4 starts a "Stop, Go Home" season about workplace pressure by unleashing a team of stress consultants on some Leeds City Council...
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A look at the bright side of life
There has been plenty published on the history of the 20th century, but little attention paid to the period's intellectual legacy. But that was before Peter Watson decided to take up the challenge....
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Western figures wander into oriental landscape
China's biggest exhibition of UK art will allow many Chinese their first glimpse of Henry Moore's works. John Kelleher reports. It is a willow pattern picture with a twist. Dawn in a Beijing park...
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When the world sings the blues...
...does it mean everybody is sad? Humans can pick out 4 million shades, but different nationalities ascribe different properties to various hues. Anne M. Sebba meets the scientists who are trying to...
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The work that has rocked anthropology
A book on the work of two American anthropologists has divided the profession with claims that they destroyed the way of life of hundreds of Yanomami Indians. Tim Cornwell reports. The much-studied...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Friday
(All times pm unless stated.) The Last Supper (6.55 R3). Harrison Birtwistle’s new "operatorio", live from Glyndebourne. Question of Science – After Kyoto (8.05...
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Jigsaw jackpot
An unemployed mathematician today picked up a £1 million prize for completing the world’s most complex jigsaw puzzle. Alex Selby, from Cambridge, completed the 209-piece jigsaw...
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University rector in court
Aberdeen University rector and television personality Clarissa Dickson Wright today appeared in court after pleading guilty to a speeding offence. Ms Dickson Wright, a former barrister, appeared at...
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From today's UK papers 25 October
FINANCIAL TIMES Just six years after e-mail and the internet emerged to become household worlds, the University of California at Los Angeles has launched an ongoing survey on the medium's impact on...
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Engineering for Manufacturing Programme: next generation manufacturing
Deadline: 17/11/2000
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Transitions after Fifty Programme
Deadline: 15/12/2000
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Management Accounting and Knowledge Management
Deadline: 31/01/2001
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Daily TV & radio guide - Thursday
Crossing Continents (11.00 am R4). Julian Pettifer in the Basque country. The Material World (4.30 R4). The mysterious single waves known as solitons, with explanation from Alan Boardman (Salford...