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Time's arrow suspended in flight
About Time
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Trials and tribulations
Subjected to Science
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an 18th-century French novelist with a taste for aristocratic games of seduction, revenge and scandal: "Goodbye, dear friend. At the moment I feel that our reason,...
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Speaking Volumes: Civilisation materielle et capitalisme, 1400 1800
Sadie Plant on Fernand Braudel's Civilisation materielle et capitalisme, 1400 1800 . In 1950, Fernand Braudel embarked on what was to become a long, intense, and convoluted journey. Wandering among...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS The following will become professors from August 1: Ian Wood, senior lecturer, will become professor of early medieval history; Robert Knipe, reader in structural geology; Robert...
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Appointments
ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Allan Stewart, principal of Selby College, Yorkshire, has been elected national chair of the EBEA. UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING Brian Desmond, former human...
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Grants
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON Charities. Drs N. Abbott and G. Connolly and Prof P. McNaughton, Pounds 43,005 from the Wellcome Trust (signalling between cells associated with the cerebral vasculature: the...
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Events
YIXING TEAPOTS Two master teapot makers from Yixing, China, will demonstrate their techniques during the International Potters' Festival at Aberystwyth Arts Centre (July 14-16). Yixing county on the...
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Europe adopts new scheme for researchers
Josephine Stein examines a system that is tied to national pay levels. A new interim scheme for research fellowships in the Fourth Framework Programme has been adopted by the European Commission and...
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Fatah support patchy in poll
Student union elections at several Palestinian universities have produced evidence of the deeply-divided opinions on the Middle East peace process. As pressure mounted from both Israeli left-wing...
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Afrikaaner who runs with ANC ball
Easy platitudes about national unity have accompanied the rugby World Cup in South Africa like a theme tune, but when Andre Odendaal says "the excitement and the range of people who have been...
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Preset drugs provide maximum benefits
Chemists at Aberdeen University have joined forces with a bioscience company to develop a new way of delivering drugs and vaccines which could cut down on injections and improve healthcare in the...
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Pounds 1.5m sets tails wagging
Cambridge University's veterinary school is establishing a professorship in farm animal health, food science and food safety thanks to a Pounds 1.5 million grant from Marks and Spencer. The post is...
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Advertisers eat their words on family diet
Families perceive television advertising as having only a marginal influence on children's diets. The myth that parents are waging a continual battle to ensure their offspring eat healthily is also...