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  1. First we wake it up, then we wipe it out

    Tuberculosis lies dormant in about one-third of the human race. Now scientists want to end its slumber, writes Angharad Davies. For two years, my friend's father, Ken, had to strip naked and lie...

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  2. Made by our own hands

    The hand made us more than just gifted chimps and put us on the road to becoming self-aware humans, argues Raymond Tallis. Man's place in nature is writ upon the hand," the great anatomist Frederic...

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  3. President caught up in gangster family ties

    Is the head of a US state university covering for his runaway mob chief brother, or is he a maligned innocent? Stephen Phillips reports. Police caution the public not to approach James "Whitey"...

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  4. Driven to distraction by the charge of the green brigade

    Efforts to force cars off campus through parking fees have enraged academics. Mike North reports. The fight started with an email. Three weeks ago, on the last day of term, staff at Durham University...

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  6. Freedom isn't free 1

    Carl May writes passionately about free online access to published work (Letters, THES, July 11) but ignores the diversity of journal ownership. Of the three leading medical sociology journals, the...

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  7. Freedom isn't free 2

    Carl May conveniently forgets that successfully managing a modern international journal involves editing, distribution and archiving. These processes are complex and costly. If publishers were taken...

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  8. MPs' muddled repayment logic 1

    There is some very muddled logic in the proposals from the select committee on education and skills to make full-cost maintenance grants available to students from poor backgrounds and paid for by...

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  9. MPs' muddled repayment logic 2

    Thomas Moston's explanation of why he didn't want to go to university (Why I.., THES, July ) shows how many school-leavers would react given an alternative to student debt and more academic courses....

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  10. Library letdown

    The British Library's destruction of some of its collections isn't the only activity at Euston Road worthy of comment. ("Pulped books spark fury", THES, June ). The library was built to provide a...

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  11. Recipe for decline 1

    We believe the transfer of courses between the University of Wales Swansea and the Swansea Institute of Higher Education is based on a flawed view of teaching, teacher education and research. Senior...

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  12. Recipe for decline 2

    You report in "Asian studies cuts may hit anti-terrorism effort" ( THES, July 11) that sweeping cutbacks in East Asian studies are in the offing. Leeds University is cited as cutting two posts in...

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  13. Against the grain?

    I cannot speak for other post-92 universities but history recruitment at Nottingham Trent is buoyant, having risen by more than 9 per cent this year ("History at risk in struggling ex-polys", THES,...

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  14. Retirement anomaly

    Raising the retirement age for schoolteachers to 65 will also affect university lecturers. Staff from the former polytechnics are members of the Teachers' Superannuation Scheme and will be affected...

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  15. Blair's dodgy attitude

    University lecturers are subject to increasing surveillance of teaching and research standards. But what confidence can we have in a government that plagiarises material presented as original and...

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