Portugal's violent naval hero
The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama
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Early life in the frame
Hans Holbein
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Speaking Volumes: Wealth From Knowledge
Luke Georghiou on J. Langrish, M. Gibbons, W. G. Evans and F. R. Jevons's Wealth From Knowledge: A Study of Innovation in Industry . Wealth from knowledge - a phrase that could resonate as a slogan...
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The science police
Physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, critics of postmodernism, talk to Harriet Swain Two men are sitting at a cafe table in the mathematics department of Imperial College, London, quoting French...
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Out on Trent
Chris Johnston hears the outspoken views of the first professor of gay studies (left) Two events of recent weeks will go down in the history of gay and lesbian Britain. The vote in the House of...
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Engineered to perfection
Is the screening of embryos for cancer-causing genes just one more step down the slippery slope to designer babies? Sonya Dowsett meets Joy Delahanty, the geneticist who tried to produce a 'cancer-...
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Drugs? Dutch courage needed
The Netherlands has a uniquely liberal policy on drugs, and it is an approach MP and academic Rick van der Ploeg would like to see adopted in other European Union countries. Huw Richards reports That...
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Should scientists and doctors be allowed to screen embryos for genetic defects?
* Should scientists and doctors be allowed to screen embryos for genetic defects?; * Will screening eventually lead to embryos being destroyed because they are at risk of 'minor' disorders such as...
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Given universities' problems in dealing with drug use by students, Katrina Wishart asks: Should Britain legalise cannabis?
Drugs are prevalent on campus. Research by Heather Ashton of Newcastle University shows that 20 per cent of students use cannabis regularly and about 33 per cent use other illicit drugs. A Union of...
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To bear or not to bear?
Women who forgo having children are portrayed as having chosen career over family. A new study suggests a more complex picture, says Alison Utley Statistics tell us that the proportion of women who...
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Renaissance of the Middle Ages
Medieval degree options have been cut, but medievalists in newer universities are fighting back, winning students with old jokes and tales of royal cannibalism. Kate Worsley reports All things...
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The end of medieval history?
Imagine if the government decided to cut the study of mammals from a biology degree or Shakespeare from an English degree. The equivalent has already happened in history. Fewer students are taking...
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Would-be contract killers
THES reporters look at the spread of casualisation and its effects and the campaign against it UNIONS are preparing a legal strategy against universities and colleges that employ staff on casual...
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Fact file
* Of the 59 per cent of first degree graduates who found work in the UK within six months of graduating in 1996-97: * 16 per cent found jobs classified as "managers or administrators" * 16 per cent...
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Constant worry of lives on hold
THES reporters look at the spread of casualisation and its effects and the campaign against it. Academics tell Alison Utley how fixed-term contracts affect them Anonymous When I took up my post I was...