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Back story brought to centre stage
Will in the World
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To cope with crises we need evidence and experts - not asses
When Food Kills
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New faces, old places and a mixed reaction
Bloody Foreigners
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America's moral beacon, then along came Marilyn
Arthur Miller
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An awed student of Heidegger who avoided his teacher's Nazi taint
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Norma Jean take 601...
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
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Staking claims on the landscape
Nature in the Global South
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Cryptic languages pronounced with a bit of a Lisp
Talking with Computers
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The hip and the dead
The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book that was banned by some American high schools: "We slept in what had once been the gymnasium...
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Off-message ministers cause alarm
Leading scientists expressed fears this week that the new Education Secretary and the Higher Education Minister could hamper science in the UK because of their controversial views on stem-cell...
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Knowledge really is route to success
Taxi driver Rachel Lowe picked up a fare that changed her life. The Portsmouth University lecturer in the back of her cab suggested she apply to study a degree as a mature student. Ms Lowe, who...
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'Oxford is the only university that could attract me to leave Toronto'
Jon Dellandrea has been lured from Canada to 'advance the cause' of Oxford University "At 55 years old, I'm over-the-top excited, like a kid," said Jon Dellandrea, the development specialist from...
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On the move ...
* Leicester University has appointed Carol Hedderman , assistant director of Home Office research, development and statistics since 2002 and former deputy director of the criminal policy research...