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  1. 'Cherrypicking' a fight with Saddam

    Intelligence on Iraq was the victim of spin, argues Philip Davies, as politicians took a selective approach to the presentation of the facts. Britain is facing the fourth inquiry into the war with...

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  2. A health 'hack' who wants to put something back

    Former BBC editor Niall Dickson was seen as a surprising choice to lead a health research think-tank. Terry Philpot looks at what he has to offer the King's Fund. I hope you'll be kind. I've only...

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  3. Can Jonny put youngsters in touch with engineering?

    By explaining the mechanics of a dropped goal or a javelin throw, lecturers aim to turn young people on to engineering. Matthew Baker reports. Cashing in on England's Rugby World Cup success has...

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  4. A man who's kept science on the ball

    Former Liverpool football star Craig Johnston is part of a movement that is revolutionising sport and giving engineering a new image, writes Ben Carlish. His new football boot, dubbed "The Pig", is...

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  5. Where the dead rest in pieces

    Stung by a mistake in estimating how long a corpse had been buried, Bill Bass set out to get data on how bodies decompose - by leaving them in a field and watching them decay. Geoff Watts reports. We...

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  6. Free vote for fellows

    How otherworldly of Trisha Greenhalgh and David Marsland (Letters, February 13) to suggest that Royal Society fellows should make explicit their objections to Baroness Greenfield's election to the...

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  7. A or B? Grades are all a lottery 1

    I was delighted with coverage of Mike Tomlinson's interim report reviewing 14-to-19 education ("Extra grades on horizon in A-level rejig", February 13). But by concentrating on structural issues and...

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  8. A or B? Grades are all a lottery 2

    So extra grades at A level are to separate the crème de la crème de la crème from the crème de la crème. Does anyone really think that this can be done with any accuracy regarding future performance...

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  9. We are not scary 1

    Secrecy and paranoia over experiments on animals predates the radical animal rights movement ("Scare tactics silence science", February 6). In 1965, the government's Littlewood committee noted that...

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  10. We are not scary 2

    To portray opponents of Cambridge's primate laboratory as terrorists is a grotesque misrepresentation of the truth. The public inquiry rejected the proposal because the university failed to show that...

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  11. Quality to the core

    Your report "Edexcel failures spark concern", (February 13) betrays a lack of understanding of how the quality "regime" works. Edexcel's primary role is to design the course structure (the...

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  12. The language of rights 1

    Bikhu Parekh's article ("Love is... desirable but it's by no means a 'right'", February 6) is a mish-mash of unjustified claims, both to knowledge and to moral certitude. He includes in human rights...

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  13. The language of rights 2

    Bikhu Parekh makes sensible points about the fractured discourse of rights but directly contradicts much of his earlier writing. His dissertation was on Bentham, but he has been promulgating group...

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  14. Colour-blind care

    I was glad to see the campaign against racism in mental health services highlighted (In the News, February 13). Since the mid-1980s, our psychotherapy training has tried to be sensitive to all...

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  15. A striking absurdity

    Members of the Association of University Teachers and the National Union of Students ("Strike is likely as AUT vote closes", February 13) will be standing shoulder to shoulder in the traditional...

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