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Poisoned bequest for our heirs?
Fundamental Toxicology for Chemists - The Environment for Children - Our Children's Toxic Legacy
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Sum like it not
The Chemistry Maths Book
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Out of the woulds
Would-be Worlds
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from a book by an industrial chemist: "In my village there weren't many clocks." Entries should be submitted to First Impressions, The THES, Admiral House, 66-68...
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Grace under pressure
What the papers said of Patricia Williams: "She is the great great grand-daughter of a slave impregnated by her white owner, a fact she refers to often in her writing as if it makes her better...
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Three lines of production
Higher education has to equip individuals better for working life, and provide the people needed for the many demands of a modern economy. But what will the future world of work be like? How good are...
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Conference
The University of Central England's research team conducted 258 interviews from 91 organisations. The organisations varied from large multinationals through to small organisations from both...
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Dynamos with degrees
Graduates bring added value to business. Phil Baty analyses a comprehensive survey that challenges employers' claims of inadequacy with evidence that employers value degrees New evidence has...
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Awards
American Anthropological Association. The 1996 Distinguished Service Award was presented to Barbara Harrell-Bond, director and founder of the refugee studies programme, University of Oxford, in...
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Will it all end in tears?
The Tories may be heading for electoral meltdown, but Richard Cockett argues that no one should underestimate their ability to turn opposition to their advantage. The Conservative party tends to...
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Aberfan aftermath, Sir Ron replies: 'I believe advice was disinterested and just''
On January 17 Iain McLean wrote an article in The THES about the 1966 Aberfan disaster. Drawing on papers just released by the Public Record Office Professor McLean suggested that Sir Ron Dearing,...
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Let them watch Strindberg!
Peter Watkins, the director whose films outraged the establishment in the 1960s, is back warning students of the narrow conservatism of TV. Patrick Murphy reports. If it's Monday, it must be York....
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Global theatre
The world, it is frequently said, is becoming smaller as national boundaries are rendered irrelevant by the enveloping forces of globalisation. But is the phenomenon exaggerated? Huw Richards...
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Geneticist to explore Dutchmen's extra inches
In the first of an occasional series on up-and-coming researchers, Graham Lawton talks to biologist Armand Leroi. Why are Dutchmen taller than Pygmies? Why are elephants bigger than mice? According...