A fight for equal love rights
Partnership rights for gay couples are basic human rights, and religious doctrines should be irrelevant when devising secular laws enshrining them, argues Robert Wintemute. At first glance, some...
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Foreign fields provide an uninspiring look into private future
Pedro Teixeira and Alberto Amaral examine the rise of private provision in education overseas. With the rapid expansion of higher education in recent decades it seemed to make sense to increase the...
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Kmart gets its hands on US national treasures
Oprah Winfrey? Martha Stewart? Stephen Phillips explains how a $38 million gift to the Smithsonian sparked a storm over donations. Businesswoman Catherine Reynolds's decision last month to back out...
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Laugh all the way to left bank
A tiny flat in Cambridge will set you back £130,000 while a Parisian pied-a-terre could be yours for £39,000 - so what are you waiting for? asks Jennifer Wallace. A square in Montmartre. Wicker cafe...
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Where Jack the Ripper gets to rub shoulders with Lord Lucan's nanny
The New DNB still has the good, the bad and the ugly, but women and crime victims are better represented than before, says Huw Richards. Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, Florence Maybrick, Neville Heath,...
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Tuned in to vibes of the global tribes
Ethnomusicologists are looking to the future as much as to the past in exploring diverse musical traditions, says Michael Church. Cometh the hour, cometh the man: the fact that we know so much about...
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There's a fine art to teaching the business
It's tough getting art students excited about profit-and-loss accounts, but one day they'll thank you, says Jo Andrews. Since I gave birth for the first time 19 years ago, the mysteries of nature-...
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USE-it! to present ideas for promotion of academic entrepreneurship
Brussels, 06 March 2002 The international USE-it! conference, which aims to present new concepts for the promotion of academic entrepreneurship, will take place on 24 to 26 April in Bonn, Germany....
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Luxembourg calls for renegotiation of biotechnology inventions directive
Brussels, 06 March 2002 Luxembourg's Parliament has called on the European Commission to renegotiate Directive 98/44 on the protection of biotechnology inventions in view of 'ambiguities regarding...
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EU's offshore wind technology ready for application, study finds
Brussels, 06 March 2002 The technology for the construction and operation of offshore wind farms is ready for large-scale application, according to a Commission-funded project which examined ways of...
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Hubble's solar arrays - behind the scenes
Paris, 06 March 2002 The power for Hubble's scientific discoveries comes from solar cells. Designing and constructing Hubble's first two sets of solar cell arrays constituted a huge technological...
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Galileo development goes on despite ministerial deferrment
Paris, 06 March 2002 Galileo, Europe's own Global Satellite Navigation System, constituted a major topic for decision at the ESA ministerial Council in Edinburgh last November. That Council agreed...
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Scientists discuss the challenges of the future
Brussels, 06 March 2002 Scientists from Europe, North America and South Africa will assemble in London on 13 and 14 May for a two day symposium on the role of science in the challenges of the future...
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From today's UK papers
Failing colleges could be closed for poor results Weak colleges face closure as part of a crackdown on standards in further education that will be outlined by the government today. Ministers are...
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Dolly research scientist quits the UK Just a week after the Lords gave their approval to stem cell research, one of Britain's leading scientists in the field has announced he is leaving to work in...