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Casino capitalism's last roll of the dice?
Globalization and its Discontents
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Sutch's verdict
By-Elections in British Politics
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Fiction friction
Valentine Cunningham still bears the scars from the last time he helped judge the Booker Prize. But he is stepping into the fray again with a suggestion for how the competition everyone loves to hate...
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Science has failed to deliver the facts
This week Richard Lacey gave evidence to the public inquiry into BSE. Here he criticises scientists for their continuing ignorance about the disease and warns that 18 million people could fall ill It...
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The bitter sweet smell of success
Luca Turin's theory of smell could revolutionise perfume making but first,as he tells Kate Worsley, he must win over the experts whose noses have been put out of joint He waves a gleaming blade under...
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The mental agony of Ecstasy
The drug Ecstasy can kill, but what about its psychological effects? Marya Burgess reports Since Leah Betts died two years ago, after taking Ecstasy on her 18th birthday, the message has gone out...
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A treasure island easy to plunder
Britain's relatively casual attitude to its artistic heritage is once more under fire as three valuable works look set for export. Helen Rees reports Whether or not Britain keeps three valuable works...
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Catharsis of memories held like jewellery in a box
Having left Oxford and gone to the US, academic Andrea Ashworth found herself overwhelmed by the past. She tells Harriet Swain how writing a chilling account of her violent childhood helped lay the...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Charities (continued from last week) Dr B. Levine and Professors S. Perry and J. Coote, Pounds 110,684 from British Heart Foundation (analysis of the molecular mechanisms of...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 1.5 per cent of UK first degree graduates became self-employed * 42 per cent going into self-employment were female * 58...
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Whinge factor
Please get in touch all those of you out there who have been beneficiaries of government education policy. As we said last week, we need your help to counteract accusations by David Blunkett that we...
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Lecturers expected to vote for action
Modern languages lecturers at the University of Northumbria were expected to vote in favour of industrial action this week in protest against the ending of short-term contracts for three part-time...
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On the buses
(Photograph) - Doncaster College advertising students Nathalie Jennings and Holly St Leger saw the posters they designed go up on the sides of buses last week as part of a public awareness campaign...
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Research contest off till 2001
THE research assessment exercise may be delayed by a year to 2001. Submissions to the funding councils' consultation on the exercise - the method by which the councils assess and selectively fund...