Seeing a wood through trees
Spatial Modelling of Forest Landscape Change
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an American recluse with an interest in spooks, psychics and V2s: "A screaming comes across the sky....
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Why I cannot go to Austria
Doing the right thing Chris Mulvey's reasons for boycotting the EAAS conference expressed as responses to arguments posted on the EAAS email list 1 Outsiders have no business involving themselves...
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Doing the right thing
Would you attend a conference in a country run partly by neo-fascists? That, as George McKay explains, is the issue facing 400 academics due to go to Austria Should I stay or should I go? That is the...
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On the menu: epistemology, gumbo and giving
A seminar series at Karl Sabbagh's alma mater invites him to debate tough issues and to reflect on philanthropy Donkey's Years, a play by Michael Frayn set in an Oxbridge college, depicts the events...
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Higher Channels
John Davies audits the broadcasting output (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Next time the BBC is accused of dumbing down, you can be sure that Seeing Salvation (Sunday 8.10 BBC2) will...
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How to net the big bucks
More and more members ofcomputer science faculties aretrying their hand at e-commerce. Tim Cornwell reports A gold rush of sorts is under way in the United States, a country now mesmerised by the...
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The lure of the e-life
About ten years ago, Mark Horowitz was feeling "a little burnt out" by his job on the electrical engineering staff at Stanford University. "A friend of mine had this idea, and it sounded interesting...
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The lure of the e-life
"All my life I had been a professor," says Ramish Jain, "and this is a different life. But I was so excited about it, I knew it was going to happen." About three years ago, Jain, chief executive...
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I think, therefore I die
Stress may start outin the mind, but the body is quick to respond. As Esther Sternberg has shown, the consequences can prove deadly. Ayala Ochert reports A packed conference room was asked: "How many...
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Up close and personal
Student crushes on lecturers are common. But do they spell trouble or bringhigh marks? Harriet Swain reports Emma swears she is over her infatuation with her tutor. But she admits that only last...
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From research revolution to web of deceit
Would you pass off a website essay as your own - and if you did, would your tutor notice? Maggie Greatorex reports Zack Alexander is a 23-year-old engineering undergraduate who knew nothing about...
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Given a sporting chance
College sport is flourishing, but university cliques are excluding women, overseas and disabled athletes. Jennifer Currie reports on the fight against sporting discrimination (right) and on how...
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A nifty won't get you a decent crib
No new slang has emerged in the past few years for what used to be called digs. London students will still refer to their pad (the 1960s favourite), their gaff (heard for at least 100 years), or...
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Fascism, farming and J. B. Priestley
Norman Lindop, senior vice-president 1942-43. "I became NUS senior vice-president in my year as president at Queen Mary, while I was taking finals. The annual general meeting was between two exams. I...