Islanders buried by volcano and burned again by London
Fire From the Mountain
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Layers of life sure to provoke
The Weight of the World
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Disarming thoughts on power
Alternative Nuclear Futures
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Ways of making you think secular
Islam and Society in Turkey
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Rooting for lost causes
Refugees in an Age of Genocide
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Russian eyes spy a deeper history
The Russians
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Benefactor to the human race
Ruskin's God - Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites - John Ruskin
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Is it a bird? Is it a serpent?
The Myth of Quetzalcoatl
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A coalition armed with good excuses
The Road to War in Serbia - Kosovo
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Higher channels
John Davies gives the schedules a quality audit (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Does it matter that there are no historians to give us a measured judgement on Anthony Eden's career in...
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From dead tired to dead
Do you feel exhausted after lunch? Then, like nine out of ten of your colleagues, you are sleep deprived - and the consequences could be catastrophic. Ayala Ochert talks to sleep researcher William...
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Chants would be a fine thing
Are today's students and academics too busy to protest or are they just getting angry about different things? Harriet Swain reports Universities took to the streets during last month's May Day riots...
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If we could talk to the animals...
What do a honey bee's dance and a monkey's screech have in common? Marc Hauser describes how open-minded research is throwing up new insights into how animals think and communicate Have you ever had...
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A life less extraordinary
Jenny Newman quit life as a nun to pursue a career as a writer and academic. It was an agonising wrench but, as she tells Harriet Swain, cloisters, medieval traditions and hierarchies are as much a...
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Hands-on route to a TV career
Licences for new local TV stations are being welcomed by media academics and students, reports Gideon Burrows Breaking the gloomy skyline above the student houses on the outskirts of Manchester, a...