Patronage under fire
A CAMBRIDGE University don imprisoned for knowingly distributing HIV-infected blood in the 1993 French blood and Aids scandal was again at the centre of a controversy this week as it emerged that the...
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Manchester to become computer superpower
A Pounds 26-million supercomputer service funded and managed under a private finance initiative will go to Manchester University. The machine will be based on Silicon Graphics' latest T3E-1200E...
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Asia crisis hits student subsidy
THE FINANCIAL crisis in Asia is likely to force New Zealand to renege on a plan to boost university and polytechnic spending by $NZ103 million (Pounds 33 million). Prime minister Jenny Shipley said a...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a colourful tale of Washington intrigue written by an unidentified source...
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Europe's identity crisis
Dark Continent
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Past walks with the present in Algeria's bloodletting
The Agony of Algeria
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Apartheid Japan-style
Cartels of the Mind
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From Abakwa to Zydeco
The Dictionary of Global Culture
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First and last Romantics
The Romantics
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The myth of liberal conquest
Liberalism and its Discontents
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Jeeves, Smarties and arch aliens
From Wodehouse to Wittgenstein
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Liberty's flawed apostle
Reason and Republicanism
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How genetics can be good for health
A puree genius at his work Healthier chips: potato plants can be genetically modified to make firmer potatoes. When these are fried, they absorb less fat. This results in a crisper, lower-fat chip...
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Time and notion
He may have a Nobel prize, countless honorary doctorates and a viscountcy from the king of Belgium, but Ilya Prigogine's belief that time really does exist has alienated the physics community. Andrew...
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Regrets, he's had a few ...
Huw Richards talks to one ex-student union leader who is about to become president of his old university, Neil Kinnock Neil Kinnock was famously the first of a 1,000 generations of Kinnocks to go to...