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  1. Monsters bred for vanity of man

    Domestication allows humans to produce animals in colours and shapes that would never survive in the wild. Tim Birkhead argues that it is time for us to put a brake on the process The issue of...

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  2. How to make campus a safer haven

    Universities are using technology and traditional policing to boost security for staff and students. Lawrence Cohen reports An agitated undergraduate approached Peter after waiting until the rest of...

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  3. 'I put my head in the maw of the leviathan - Las Vegas'

    Bruce Begout wanted to get below the surface of 'Sin City'. He found a capitalist virtual extravaganza, with no past and no present, bent on forcing everyone into submission or exile So what was I up...

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  4. A hairy tale of how plum jobs can go sour

    Producing an official history of a university can be tough. Michael North reports on how a clash of cultures can leave historians and PR departments trading accusations of spin and irrelevance Given...

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  5. Keith Joseph suggested I 'go back and grow bananas'

    Geoff Palmer arrived in England from Jamaica barely literate, yet he overcame that and the racism he found at every turn to become a world renowned professor of brewing. Olga Wojtas reports It is...

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  6. Dodgy arguments 2

    Government ministers apparently think that "they can win the argument on top-up fees because middle-class parents won't pay a penny, unless they choose to support their children" ("Battle to stave...

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  7. Peppered with error

    Reading Michael Majerus' article on the peppered moth ("A wing and a prayer", THES , August 8) reminded me of a curious fact. Creationists appear to focus on supposed deficiencies in "the theory of...

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  8. Nottingham pay plan

    Your article "Nottingham takes pay leap" ( THES , August 8) does not give a full account of the work that has been going on since mid-2001. The university, as part of its Higher Education Funding...

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  9. The cheap option?

    The national pay framework proposal includes a breakthrough for women and ethnic minority groups that appears to have gone mostly unnoticed. This is the agreement that the single pay spine will be...

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  10. Don't rubbish post-92s' efforts 1

    It is not easy to decide whether Charles Pasternak's rumbustious attitude is more entertaining than his hilariously inept argumentation ("Curiosity made us great, but it's waning in the West", THES...

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  11. Don't rubbish post-92s' efforts 2

    Charles Pasternak makes several valid points about why it is that students in Asian cultures seem to perform better than their UK and US counterparts in the biosciences. However, in an article that...

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  12. Don't rubbish post-92s' efforts 3

    Charles Pasternak asserts that students at "new" universities are not taking courses in philosophy. I can assure him that philosophy, both single honours and in combination, is studied at a wide...

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  13. Give flagship a chance

    Your article on modern apprenticeships ("Skills flagship fails to inspire", THES, August 8) ignores the fact that completion rates are improving overall and that the figures for 2002-03 look to be...

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  14. Double bind 1

    I find it unbelievable that Arthur Jensen now regards the data of Sir Cyril Burt on identical twins reared apart as in any way genuine and of serious scientific value (Books, THES , August 8). All...

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  15. Double bind 2

    Whatever the rights and wrongs of Arthur Jensen's views on intelligence, he cannot be called the father of g, as your headline has it. That was Charles Spearman (1863-1945), specifically in his paper...

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