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First impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from a novel published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and...
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In with the new
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch CELL DIVISION In Cell division is a delicate...
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In with the new
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch SOLAR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENT Some 6,800 feet...
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Red, white and blue
What is British art? Marcia Pointon thinks the answer should be found in the new Tate Gallery The Tate Gallery is facing its greatest challenge since the collection opened its doors to the public in...
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In with the new
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch The big biological news of 1996 looks likely...
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In with the new
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch The new year will be one of celebration for...
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The Qu'ran's call to arms
Jonathan Benthall examines zakat, the Muslim tradition of alms-giving It is a mass-produced plastic model of the octagonal Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem. Two circular strips of paper glued...
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Warwick bares all on air
Warwick University has agreed to subject itself to the intrusions of a fly-on-the-wall radio series. But Simon Midgley finds the natives sanguine about such exposure In a rare warts-and-all...
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Heads or tales?
It's the story of a desperate gamble, of suspense and of survival in a cut-throat world. And that's just the course. Tony Tysome meets some of the budding writers on Liverpool John Moores University'...
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New Year Honours List
Privy Counsellor Eric Forth, MP for Mid Worcestershire and minister of state, Department for Education and Employment. Knights Bachelor Thomas Leon Blundell, FRS, for services to the Biotechnology...
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A world full of brave new ideas
LAST week's research assessments show that despite complaints of limited resources, many British academics are doing terrific research. This week and next, The THES is looking at where the best...
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Bachelors who miss the party
Institutions should help hard-up graduates pay the spiralling cost of attending their graduation ceremonies, argues Gail Chester. Across the country over the last few months, new graduates should...
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The flaws in the RAE
COMMENTING on the results of the research assessment exercise (THES, December 20), you remark that: "...the disappointed will naturally seek flaws". Indeed. But what is to be done when the flaws are...
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Quality streetwise
I AM surprised to read that some research councils are unconvinced of the need for the Higher Education Quality Council guidelines on research (THES, December 13). I would have imagined that they...