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Pick of the week After the previous programme’s mixture of fact and speculation about life on Mars, this week’s » Horizon : Destination Mars (Thursday 9.00 BBC2) turns to a possible manned mission to...
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When you're old, who cares how you die?
Doctors' failure to recognise that her mother was suffering from CJD alerted Judith Okely to the medical profession's inherent ageism. The crisis over mad cow disease has shown how scientific...
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Helping the world to breathe more easily
In the battle against climate change, good intentions are not enough. Lobbyists must become more Machiavellian. Fred Pearce reports. Know your enemy." It has been Paul Harris's motto as United States...
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The iguanas can stay, but everything else must go
As Ecuadoreans queue to leave, Oxford academics are working with local groups to put the country's economy back on track. Rob Stepney reports. Giant iguanas used to hang out in the trees, but more...
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Prosper with a Peruvian
Fancy putting your specialist knowledge to more profitable use? Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius's study of US academics who have established new careers shows that the leap from campus to commerce...
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Latest international news
25% of SA undergrads are HIV positive A leaked South African department of education report says one in four university undergraduates, one in eight postgraduates and one in five technikon students...
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Latest UK news
Doubts raised about overseas operations Concerns have been raised about the Spanish operations of five of six British universities surveyed by the Quality...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Technologists of the future could be hampered in their early learning by glaring inaccuracies in basic science textbooks, warns John Hubisz, visiting professor of physics at North...
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New year's honours: more
OBE Patricia Greenhalgh , senior lecturer, department of primary care and population science, University College London, for services to evidence based medical care. CBE Ljubo Sirc , former...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Thursday
Moral Notes (11.30 am R4). Victorian popular songs and their values: Simon Brett begins a new series by showing how family life was reflected in the songs of 150 years ago. The Material World (4.30...
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Latest international news
Georgia marks civil rights milestone Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of the first two black students to enrol at the University of Georgia in the face of violent opposition from white segregationists,...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Mike Tomlinson, chief inspector of schools, has called for companies to play a central role in developing the new skills-based GCSEs and A levels. THE GUARDIAN Vague...
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Latest UK news
Revamped National Grid unveiled Michael Wills, minister for learning and technology, will today launch a revamped National Grid for Learning. The site, at www.ngfl.gov.uk , includes links to...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Wednesday
Patient Progress (11.00 am R4). Stress (repeat). Dream Lives (7.00 BBC1). In the Tomorrow's World slot, a new series about "using the latest technology to change people's lives" begins in a Leeds...
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Latest international news
Student "poisoned by lesbian lover" A psychology student at Rome’s La Sapienza University has been arrested for allegedly murdering her room mate with cyanide-laced soup last February. The victim was...