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  1. A disquieting clash of culture

    The UK's aid programme draws heavily on academic consultants but, as anthropologist David Mosse is all too aware, this can lead to conflicts of interest. In the late 1990s, Labour's Department for...

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  2. What are you hiding in that brown paper bag?

    Stop wrapping porn in a cloak of theory, says Nathan Abrams. It's time to confront sex in mainstream culture. Pornography is perhaps one the last untouched taboos of British academic study. In...

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  3. To pipe up or to shut up. Give us some direction

    Pat Bryden is gobsmacked at the dearth of discussion in seminars. Why don't lecturers do something about it? Getting my younger fellow students to say something - anything - in seminars was, I found...

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  4. 'My tutor said to me, this talk is dangerous'

    Since his student days, psychiatrist Duncan Double has sought to take the stigma out of mental illness. But his controversial methods led to his suspension, reports Adam James. Duncan Double is one...

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  7. Effects of Chernobyl worse than expected

    Brussels, 19 Apr 2006 Chernobyl has become more than just the name of the world's biggest ever nuclear disaster. Chernobyl has become a by-word for the dark side of modern life - how technology can...

  8. Sustainable energy supply for buildings

    Brussels, 19 Apr 2006 Camelia, part of the 'Concerto' consortium of 16 European universities, has organised a symposium on 'Sustainable energy supply for buildings', to be held at Steyr, Austria, on...

  10. XMM-Newton reveals a tumbling neutron star

    Paris, 19 Apr 2006 Photos Using data from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, an international group of astrophysicists discovered that one spinning neutron star doesn't appear to be the stable...

  11. Low cost internet access at sea via ESA satellite

    Paris, 19 Apr 2006 Through a project supported by the European Space Agency, the UK-based company Wired Ocean Ltd can now provide enhanced Internet access for ships at sea at a much lower cost than...

  12. Today's news

    Cambridge don denies indecently assaulting woman in his college rooms A senior academic at Cambridge University fondled and kissed a former student after inviting her to his college rooms for a drink...

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