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Going, going...gone
Black-market trade in antiquities is destroying some countries' heritage. Anne Sebba reports on battles by archaeologists to stop the looting James Ede, a London-based antiquities dealer, put two...
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The trouble with treasure
In 1990, Sotheby's in New York announced that it was to auction on behalf of the Marquess of Northampton a spectacular collection of silver, known as the Sevso treasure. The name derived from a Latin...
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Linguistic ruminations on lethal mutations
In the fifth excerpt from the THES book Predictions Noam Chomsky ponders the properties that define our species and asks if they will save or destroy us The record of prediction in human affairs has...
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Higher Channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Time to examine our language. BBC Radio kicks off a "Thousand Years of Spoken English" season with The Routes of...
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Six billion..and counting
Population growth is no longer a clear-cut problem, reports Harriet Swain Peter McDonald (below) says the issue is how we will balance the world's labour supply This is World Population Week,...
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Six billion ... and counting
The issue is how we will balance the world's labour supply In a recent address to the World Congress of Families, held in Melbourne, Allan Carlson, an adviser to the Reagan and Bush administrations,...
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Private eyes, public mysteries
The article "Private eyes, public mysteries" by William Rubenstein (THES, October 1) should have mentioned that the current (October) issue of History Today contains Professor Rubenstein's article on...
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Tory axe hovers over parent-student bond
Alan Thomson reports from the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. Different levels of university tuition fees are just one of the proposals that may emerge from Tim Boswell's further and...
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Skeleton staff
(Photograph) - Skeleton staff: the first fast-track medical students - graduates who want to become doctors - began their four-year course at the University of Leicester this week. The course is one...
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Cold war front
I too was a GDR sympathiser. I visited the country regularly, fell passionately in love with an active Communist Party member, worked closely with the brother of Che Guevara's girlfriend - yet still...
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May sees sence in divide and provide
Alan Thomson reports from the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. The Conservative Party may propose restructuring the university sector along specialist academic or vocational lines as part...
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Athletic university is a record breaker
Loughborough University is celebrating research grants and contracts worth nearly Pounds 22 million awarded to its 23 departments over the past 12 months. The total breaks the university's record set...
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Costs thwart broader access
Members of groups that are under-represented in full-time higher education are turning away from study, according to analysis by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. The turnabout...