'I've gone places others haven't'
Olga Wojtas talks to the Scots academic recently freed from an Indonesian jail. Lesley McCulloch, the Scots-born academic released from an Indonesian jail earlier this month, could have been free in...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Lord Sainsbury, the science minister, has opened the Genetic Therapies Centre at Imperial College, London. Mumbai (Bombay) in India will house the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Vietnam to get first foreign university
Work is about to start on Vietnam's first foreign-owned university after the Asia Development Bank agreed to pay $7.5 million (£5.3 million) towards the project. The university is being established...
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Industrial technologies - Establishing a strategic research agenda for nanoelectronics
Brussels, 14 Jul 2004 Large-scale research funding is crucial to ease the transition from micro- to nanoelectronics, according to a report from leading industrial and research organisations....
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Beautiful sounds from foul singers
Bats may be ugly and smelly but, Daniel Bennett says, they sound wonderful. Just after dusk we were on a canoe in the Mozambique Bay. Hundreds of bats were flying over the sea and the sound was...
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Easy links to significant others
Shamanism
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Malaysian OU opts for Heriot-Watt expertise
Tan Sri Abdullah Sanusi, president of the fledgling Malaysian Open University, has finalised an e-learning deal with Heriot-Watt University to give new Malaysian students access to Heriot-Watt's...
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Today's news
Cost of university fees is 'two pints of beer a week' Graduates starting off on a salary of £18,000 a year in London would only have to give up two pints of beer a week to repay their top-up fees,...
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No victory in the peace to end peace
The Origins of World War I - Castles of Steel - The Great War - The First World War - Trench Art
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With the best will in the world
One World
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International organisation to help developing country researchers with intellectual property issues
Brussels, 11 February 2002 An international organisation is to be set up later this year to assist governments and health researchers in the developing world to negotiate better deals for drug access...
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Putting Canada in the frame
Brussels, 30 Sep 2002 Dr Christophe Sensen of the University of Calgary, Canada, is well placed to discuss Canadian collaboration with the EU. A German who went across to Canada over a decade ago, he...
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Marriage of awe and order
Enlightening the British - Enlightenment
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Marriage of awe and order
Enlightening the British - Enlightenment
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Don's Diary
Weekend Combination of catching up on piles of reading marked "not urgent", domestic matters put off for weeks; and preparation for a visit to Kyrgyzstan. It is here, in Central Asia (formerly part...