Weed 'em and reap
Journal of Vegetable Crop Production (twice a year)
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Death duties
Mortality (three times a year)
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Old Nick's cook who sliced steaks off brawnybums
Hogarth and his Times - Hogarth
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Baroque genius, ruthless robber
Bernini
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Bigoted brilliance
Frederic Remington
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The buried mirror
The Body in Parts - Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings - The Olmec World - Human Mummies - The Spirit of Ancient Peru - The Essential Codex Mendoza - The Art of the Maya Scribe
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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, comes from a scholar who helped an architect to solve an ancient riddle: "The urge to...
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Supermarket sweep?
Porridge Ingredients: oats, water, heat. The best porridge is made from pinhead oatmeal, really coarse oatmeal. Put one scoop oatmeal with three scoops water into a pan. Bring to the boil, stirring...
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The two and a half degrees to domesday
The concept of global warming is more than 100 years old, but confusion still reigns about the solution. John Houghton explains his blueprint for survival. Global warming is firmly on the national...
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The woman from Auntie
Former Woman's Hour editor Sally Feldman tells Kam Patel why she is leaving journalism to become dean of the school of media at The London College of Printing. Sally Feldman laughs as she recalls her...
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Food's new watchdog
Most people still think most of the food they eat is safe. The BSE saga rumbles on, 21 died in last year's E.coli food poisoning outbreak in Scotland, parents worry about children driven hyperactive...
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The Gene advice Shop
Saturday 8am, Manchester Piccadilly station, and the train to the airport is sprinkled with teenage clubbers. Manchester airport itself, all halogen floorspots and burnished metal, is buzzing. There...
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Chairs
Southampton Institute Edward Chaney, senior lecturer in fine arts valuation, has been appointed professor of fine and decorative arts; David Piper, dean of academic information service, professor of...
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Honorary degrees
University College, Suffolk LittD: Trevor Nunn, director of the National Theatre and director emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company. MA: Bobby Robson, technical director of football at Barcelona...
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Lectures
Darwin College Lecture Series 1998 The 13th annual Darwin College Lectures will be held in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge on Fridays at 5.30pm as follows: January 16: The...