The paradigms of people power
The global anticapitalist movement links millions of ordinary people worldwide and has no historical precedent. So why are so few anthropologists involved? asks Nancy Lindisfarne. The third European...
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What's in a name?
Relief all round at victory for the Ivy League in its long-running trademark battle against a New Zealand company. Pacific Dunlop Asia tried to launch a range of "Ivy League" fashion accessories, but...
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Conferences are targeted by illegal immigrant gangs
Academic conference organisers are being warned that they risk being targeted by international gangs who traffic in illegal immigrants. David Bustard, head of Ulster University's School of...
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Slabs of data worth mining for the gold
Tired of indifferent, unanalytical history textbooks? Jeremy Black opts for surprising alternatives that first appeared in 1902 - the Cambridge Histories. Textbooks. We all think we know what they...
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The human-nature game
Environmental Movements in Asia
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How to tame the market without stunting growth
Private universities are a valuable asset to any country if they are regulated appropriately, says Roger King. Governments everywhere regard a robust and growing higher education system as essential...
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Vladivostok basks in its freedom
The insistence of the old Soviet regime that it approve any new university programmes no longer hangs heavily on a rejuvenated Far Eastern State University. President Vladimir Kurilov's Vladivostok...
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How UK can sell more '1st class tickets for life'
It is now more than two years since prime minister Tony Blair launched his initiative to attract more international students to the United Kingdom from non-European Union countries. The package of...
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Oz gets tough on study visa
Following a huge increase in the number of foreign students seeking to enrol in ߣߣÊÓƵn education institutions, the federal government last week adopted tighter visa regulations. During the past...
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Strong link between climate change and cholera outbreaks
Brussels, 24 Sep 2002 The link between climate change and cholera is three times as strong as first thought, according to researchers in Spain, Bangladesh and the USA. The relationship between...
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Change and omission
Foreign Policy in a Transformed World. First edition
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Subtle origins of Indo-China
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization
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Second tongue causes strife
Students in East Timor are finding their country's second official language tough to learn because there are so few opportunities to practice. After voting for independence from Indonesia in...
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Is this what makes us go 'here we go'?
Natural feeling versus political programme, modern versus ancient, the historians can't reach agreement on what causes nationalism. Karen Gold reports. "More than 1,000 years before the arrival of...
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Labyrinthine voyage to the origin of time
The Great Barrier Reef