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  4. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from an 18th-century journey that inspired a love of the classics: "I slipped out of Carlsbad at...

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  10. Laurie Taylor column

    Good morning, and welcome to today's Board of Studies meeting, which will now reconstitute itself as the Board of Examiners. Any objections? One point. Why every year do we go through this farce of...

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  11. Tireless Nobelist turning his attention to the stars

    Baruch Blumberg's past work is saving millions of lives. Now, aged 74, he is leading a Nasa team into the future, writes Geoff Watts By age 74, most academics have quit the business. But not Baruch...

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  12. Acquittal was just a chance in 73 million

    Misleading statistics may have convicted a mother of murder. Adam James reports Cheshire solicitor Sally Clark was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1999 for the murder of her two sons, 11-week-old...

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  13. 'We'll make Saturn by '70'

    In the late 1950s, Freeman Dyson worked on a project to turn weapons of mass destruction into an intergalactic fuel source. Helen Hague reports. When the young George Dyson told school pals in...

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  14. Where there's smokes, there's ire

    When Nottingham University accepted cash from a tobacco company a storm erupted - staff quit and cancer charities were furious. Tony Tysome talks to researcher David Thurston, who left, and those who...

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  15. New key in same old lock

    Can fresh approaches to history stand the test of time, asks David Cannadine, who opens four pages on 'rewriting the past', the theme of the Anglo-American Conference of Historians. In What is...

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