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  1. Loss of learning

    There are several flaws in Dimitra Koutsantoni's letter (November 2). First, I am not an academic in a secure job - I have had part-time, fixed-term jobs since being made redundant. Second, I do...

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  2. Survey is sound

    Your article "'Vocal minority' could ruin faculty reputations" (November 2) asserts that just 20 students could make or break the reputation of courses under proposed reforms to the National Student...

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  3. Less rigid regime

    Alan Ryan (Columnist, November 2) talks of how students would "suffer atrociously" if lower grades from disadvantaged students were considered equivalent to A grades of the advantaged. But, if we are...

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  4. Aide sought. Robust toes are a must

    As Stephen Hawking seeks a new graduate assistant, previous incumbents tell Anna Fazackerley that the job is exhilarating, exasperating and the stuff of killer dinner party stories. Julian Luttrell...

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  5. A chip off Mother Nature's own hard drive

    In using DNA to build nanocomputers, synthetic biologists are posing questions about the very notion of computation and of life itself, says Martyn Amos. Possibly the most unusual reviewing...

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  6. Buzz of the chase

    A former US detective and an evolutionary biologist have got a handful of bees to help the police with inquiries into serial crimes. Geoff Watts joins the investigation. There is a faint apian hum in...

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  7. A free-floating captain salvaging sunken past

    Michael North meets the underwater archaeologist who discovered the legendary lost Egyptian city of Heracleion. It was an almost 2m-high stele, black granite, absolutely intact," says Franck Goddio,...

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  8. Research notes

    Name : Aylish Campbell. Position : Trainee clinical psychologist. Age : . What is the nature of your research? My research is about the experience of hearing voices, which has often been viewed as...

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  9. Pop idols and whale penises... it's a sellout

    Extracurricular lectures are a hit with curious academics, who seek out novelty and ideas as well as star speakers. Olga Wojtas reports. After a hard day's lecturing, it seems academics like nothing...

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  10. Latest research news

    Radioactive antibodies hunt out HIV-infected cells For decades researchers have wondered what it would take to eliminate the immunodeficiency virus HIV from a patient's body. Now they think that...

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  14. Vaccine-producing "plant factories"

    Brussels, 7 November 2006 Vaccine-producing 'plant-factories' http:///cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?f useaction=article.Detail&rcn=10877 CORDIS RTD-NEWS/© European Communities, 2006