First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a utopian work: "Up at the League, says a friend, there had been a brisk conversational discussion, as...
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Oratory rant that loses the crowd
Doing Our Own Thing
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A little proposition: contextualise 'this'
Minimal Semantics
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Glossolalia and other words without thought
The Cambridge Companion to Saussure
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Resource Enhancement Scheme
Deadline: 24/11/2005
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Introduction
'At a time when the attention of the world is focused on Africa and, more generally, on global health and development, we at the Medical Research Council are pleased to be able to work with The Times...
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Find your niche
The Medical Research Council is keen to invest in innovators willing to take risks, Colin Blakemore tells Anna Fazackerley, but he advises all young researchers to consider a career strategy Colin...
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The fair and the fowl
A researcher working on a global health issue at a top institution on a five-year contract should feel secure. But Ruth Harvey, who is investigating avian flu, tells Anna Fazackerley that the...
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This fight is personal
Having seen Aids claim family members, Paula Munderi applied her medical skills to fight the disease. Becky McCall found her working on a clinical trial that offers a lifeline to devastated...
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Foreign intrigue
'It's great to focus on work and have time for life' Is a stint abroad a good career move? Becky McCall looks at the experiences of three researchers - one who went to Africa and stayed, one who has...
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Target woman
Tuberculosis is no long-gone scourge but a deadly modern-day disease that is increasingly resistant to treatment. Anna Fazackerley meets a woman seeking new ways to attack the bacterium that causes...
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To catch a killer on the wing
Malaria plagues The Gambia, especially in the rainy season. Becky McCall visits scientists at the front line of immunological and genetic efforts to halt the disease and the misery it causes It is...
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Here for the cheer
When it comes to a career in science, there is no consensus on how best to begin, but Laura Barnett and Hanna Hindstrom discover that many big-name researchers agree that fun - intellectual and...
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Right-to-die advocate keen to lead ethics discourse
Bristol University Medical School has embraced one of the toughest dilemmas faced by doctors with the appointment of a professor of ethics who supports a patient's right to choose to die. Euthanasia...
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UK plan to cut EU budget dashes hope of research cash
The UK Government will propose slashing the planned budget of the European Union's forthcoming Seventh Framework Programme, which universities had hoped would provide €70 million (£47.5 million) in...