Injection of reality prescribed
As the NHS notches up 50 years this summer, Alan Maynard says it should not get any extra cash but should use its Pounds 42 billion budget better. Every few months there is another lament about the...
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French connections
Historian and thinker Theodore Zeldin talks to Harriet Swain about his love for the French, women and his ceaseless search for links in life that make it more meaningful. There is something very un-...
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When is a clone not a clone?
(Photograph) - When is a clone not a clone? Two-day-old human cells perched on the end of a needle. Yesterday's consultation paper on human cloning suggests that 'cloning technologies' could be...
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Fear and cloning
Why fraternity cannot be cloned. Ayala Ochert discovers almost is not all The Human Genetics Advisory Commission wants advice on human cloning. Yesterday, with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology...
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Why fraternity cannot be cloned
Hilary Putnam believes that the notion of using pre-designed children to gratify parents' needs is wrong - a stance seemingly echoed by yesterday's inquiry upholding a ban on almost all human cloning...
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All texts are our province
Catherine Belsey applauds critical theory's expansion of the breadth of material studied in English departments in the third of our series on the impact of new methods. When I first began to take an...
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A type who's not for casting
Ludmilla Jordanova is the British Society for the History of Science's first woman president for half a century. She talks to Gail Vines. For the first time in 51 years, the British Society for the...
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Ground-breaking course on disability
A ground-breaking course on disability has been devised at the University of Ulster, writes Noel McAdam. The 12-week part-time course was designed by and will be delivered by disabled people....
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: Of first degree business studies graduates who went into work: * 34 per cent went into management and administrative work *...
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Students test benefits case
THE GOVERNMENT is coming under increasing pressure to stop students who take a break from their courses being left destitute. Students can claim neither maintenance grants and loans nor social...
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Fellowships
Leeds College of Music. Fellowships of the college have been awarded to Pandit Sharda Sahai, tabla solo artist and accompanist in North Indian Classical Music. Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great...
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Why people like Saddam couldn't make more of themselves
(Photograph) - Why people like Saddam couldn't make more of themselves. As the UK commission into human cloning prepares to publish its report next week, one cloning advocate has been branded mad,...
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Food Standards Agency keen on campus labs
University researchers stand to gain as the new Food Standards Agency establishes its independence. The agency, due to come into operation at the end of 1999, is expected to have a Pounds 25 million...
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Less money for science
The science budget next year will be almost Pounds 30 million lower in real terms than this year as the government keeps to Conservative spending levels. The budget for 1998-99 is Pounds 1,338...
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Baroness Blackstone "optimistic" for further money for univerisities
Baroness Blackstone, higher education minister, told the House of Commons science and technology select committee this week that she was "optimistic" that the comprehensive spending review would...