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  1. Dismal returns of micro-men

    Forget the low pay of its academics, economics is in trouble because it is failing to shed light on everyday dilemmas, argues Alan Shipman. Economics can explain the demise of wheelwrights, weavers...

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  2. Elegiac air honours more than lost lives

    It is appropriate that Elgar's Nimrod echoes over casualties of war in Iraq, writes Kevin Jones. As the war in Iraq ends, one of the nation's favourite elegies - Nimrod, from Elgar's Enigma...

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  3. Smears upon the walls are history

    Deborah Lipstadt argues that erasing Soviet graffiti from the Reichstag will also erase part of Germany's past. Adolf Hitler despised the Reichstag. He avoided the neo-Renaissance former home of...

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  4. Will new word order embetter us?

       'Sometimes that doesn't happen all the time' - the verbal chaos of America's president has baffled many people, but Alan Cienki finds linguistic logic in it. At a press...

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  5. 'Petticoats are no joke' at 30 below

    Using tarpaulins and potato crates, polar explorers staged theatrical works to save their sanity in the frozen darkness, writes Mike Pearson. Early in 1903, Lieutenant Michael Barne rigged his sledge...

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  6. No stars for RAE funding change

    We write concerning decisions taken by the Department for Education and Skills and the Higher Education Funding Council for England on the funding of research following the 2001 research assessment...

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  7. No stars for RAE funding change 2

    Daniel Hutto's comments on the research assessment exercise (Letters, THES , April 18) are misleading. A department that submits eight staff to the exercise, three of whom are internationally...

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  8. No stars for RAE funding change 3

    Will the Stakhanovite researchers of the future be required, like the former Heroes of Soviet Labour, to pin their stars to their breast pockets? Or will US-military style, with stars on epaulettes...

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  9. Out-of-step academia

    The idea that the intellectual standard of dance academics has somehow transformed the quality of the UK's dance culture is laughable ("Research cash loss to cripple dancing", THES , April 25). Given...

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  10. Fool's gold 1

    "Golden hellos" to recruit lecturers in shortage subjects ("Thumbs down for £9K hellos," THES , April 25) would address only symptoms of the problem. They would operate like a revolving door - with...

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  11. Fool's gold 2

    I can only imagine that Ivor Crewe was being ironic in saying that Universities UK was "pleased that the government has recognised the size of the recruitment problem". The proposal is eloquent...

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  12. Chemical bothers

    The closure of chemistry departments at King's College London and at the University of Kent at Canterbury must sadden, but scarcely surprise, anyone who has worked in a UK chemistry department. This...

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  13. Spirit of 1970 lives on

    As organiser of the Warwick Spring 1970 workshop, I read Ivor Gaber's report ("Middle-class posturing or a victorious fight for real changes?", THES , April 18) with interest. While discussion did...

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  14. Don't judge the pudge

    Did the poor boy pictured above David Weatherall's review of The Hungry Gene (Books, THES , April 25) give consent to being used to symbolise a "fat kid"? I wonder what kind of treatment he gets in...

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  15. To VLE or not to VLE

    Despite a "no" vote, many voices were raised in favour of commercial virtual learning environments at a debate in the Oxford Union ("Virtual vendors 'fall short'", THES , April 18). Off-the-shelf...

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