Sphinx of Delft mystery turns into an open and shutter case
Vermeer's Camera
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel that was revised from a youthful sketch on two sisters: "The Family of Dashwood had long been...
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PFI - pension fund initiative?
Pension Fund Capitalism
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My role in Poland's shocking success
Shock to Therapy
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Glittering career of a heavy metal
The Power of Gold
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Black gold blackens future
To reduce global warming, we must decarbonise, says Mike Hulme. How far do you usually think ahead? A day? A week? A year? A lifetime? The chances are that you will do a lot of thinking about...
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Hands hidden, change unseen
Economic Sentiments
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Difficulty in locating hostilities
Fences and Neighbours
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Marx gets a run for his money
Earthly Necessities
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Steady states ignore real life
Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train
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When sore heads rolled after the tequila effect
Financial Decision-Making in Mexico
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Laurie Taylor
Now where are we now? Ah, yes. Item 6. Anticipating political initiatives. Is this you, Doctor Quintock? I appear to have mislaid the agenda. Yes indeed, Professor Lapping. Now, as I'm sure we all...
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Letter: It is indeed outrageous, minister (7)
I was sorry to hear that Margaret Hodge had a bad experience at the LSE and wrote only one essay in three years. She might have preferred to come on the BA urban planning here. Over three years our...
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Letter: Royal Society roots
Dorothy Zinberg writes about "the invisible college of the Middle Ages, often thought to have given rise to the British Royal Society" (World view, THES , June 15). In fact the Royal Society started...
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Letter: A private resignation
Although I no longer have a formal connection to the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, I must correct an inaccuracy concerning comments attributed to me ("Famous for the wrong reasons", THES ,...