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Digging up planted evidence
A Rum Affair
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Higher channels
John Davies surveys the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week The latest institution to open its doors to the cameras is London's Tavistock Clinic, whose therapeutic practices...
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Your head in his hands
Stitching a man's head to a new body sounds like fiction, but Robert White believes it is possible - as does the paraplegic who has volunteered for the operation. Tim Cornwell reports Robert White...
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Turf battles and scholarly monopoly
David Cesarani, accused of 'academic fraud' and of cynically sabotaging Arthur Koestler's 'exclusive' biography, responds to his critics In May I was rung up from New York by Matthew Price, an...
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How the future began
Jonathan Weiner surveys the advances today's thinkers anticipate by 2099 Tibetan diviners emptied their minds and stared into lakes, mirrors, the flaming wicks of lamps, or the balls of their thumbs...
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I've got no energy, doctor
The public may fear nuclear power, but this week energy expert Ian Fells will demand new power stations in Britain. Kam Patel reports on the scientists ridiculing Labour's energy policy On the train...
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Multi-ethnic labour pangs
Kosovo is starting to build its own university system, but can it heal the wounds of war, asks Lynn Davies There is a feeling of rebirth amid the neglect and destruction of Kosovo, but the labour...
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World watch
Hundreds of University of Khartoum students have organised peaceful protests calling for talks between the Sudanese government and opposition groups to end the 20-year civil war in the south. Some...
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World watch
Moscow's brightest and best female students were urged to compete for the title "Miss Universitet" in a Moscow State University-backed beauty contest last week.
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World watch
Sixty thousand applications were received for polytechnic places in Malaysia this year. The government response was to expand the intake from 11,000 to 18,000 and to establish two new polytechnics in...
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What is a don for?
Dear smug Noel (Annan) ("A tale of cauliflower and King's", THES, October 15). I cannot forget being interviewed by him (and rejected) for a place at King's. I was pretty obviously an under-...
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Don's diary
Wednesday Programme three of the BBC television series on the Royal College of Art went out last night. Emails and faxes, exchanges with staff who saw themselves in the background and wished they'd...
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The THES Diary
Big people, small talk Stars of the academic industrial complex were out in force in Cambridge for Monday's SmithKline Beecham lecture in the Judge Institute. The lecture was followed by dinner in...
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In the news
News that higher education quality expert Geoffrey Alderman is leaving for the United States early next year will spark conflicting emotions in the sector. The historian and head of quality assurance...