Money to market the best business ideas
With the Pounds 45 million University Challenge Fund now allocated, successful bidders are fast developing their business plans. Julia Hinde reports. Christmas has come early for 15 university...
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Reversing the brain drain in Spain
Spain is luring scientists back from abroad with temporary contracts but there are not enough jobs. Rebecca Warden reports from Barcelona. Spain has never had so many highly trained scientists...
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Assault on turbulence
Scientists at the Isaac Newton Institute are spending six months trying to solve what Einstein dubbed the ultimate scientific problem - turbulence. Julian Hunt reports. If you like to puzzle about...
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Burmese dissidents mourn professor
A decade after fleeing across Burma's borders following the popular uprising against military rule in 1988, student exiles in Thailand, India, Bangladesh and China are still carrying a torch for the...
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Teach-only contract threat
The Association of University Teachers has condemned Loughborough University for plans to downgrade staff contracts to improve its research assessment exercise performance. A circular from the AUT...
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Christ is risen, and still rising
A World History of Christianity
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Blasphemous Britain
Blasphemy in Modern Britain
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Cambridge firsts
Women at Cambridge
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Keeping up with all the Joneses
Sir William Jones 1746-94
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Out of the asylum, into the office
A History of Psychiatry
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Wade's vanishing world
The Golden Metwand and the Crooked Cord
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Sacred symbols - a user's guide
Hinduism and the Religious Arts
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The threat and lure of the East
Islam in Britain 1558-1685
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Was Muhammad a Christian?
Foundations of Islam
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an author with a magic touch: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend...