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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about IQ made into an Oscar-winning film in the flower-power Sixties: "Dr Strauss says I shoud...
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Hawk talk is a poor gambit
Going Critical - Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies - North Korea
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Theoretical foundation
The Nature of Political Theory
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Them and us hide in X-Files
Backfire - A Culture of Conspiracy - American Extremism
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Thoughts of a party pooper
The Party's Over
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Academic rhapsody in claret and blue
Forget football chants and terrace anthems, the sound of a symphony will reverberate around the ground of a London football club this season. One movement of a piece by Shirley Thompson, of...
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'I do not think i can change the world - my goals are quite modest'
Celia Hoyles, the Government's maths adviser, is keen to inspire more students to do maths and go on to teach it Celia Hoyles does not like the term "czar" to describe her appointment last week as...
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On the move...
* Paul Kerswill , sociolinguist and former senior lecturer at Reading University, has been appointed to a chair in the department of linguistics at Lancaster University. * The Royal Society of...
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Queen bees halt the wannabees
Report says territorial women, as well as men, keep young female scientists down. Martyn Bull reports. Top female scientists may be partly to blame for the lack of women in senior science jobs...
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Centre gives women a boost
A £4.1 million UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology launched this week places the UK at the forefront of initiatives to ensure equality for women in science and...
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Chemistry: the word on the street
As police in Cambridge search for a mystery graffiti artist with a penchant for chemical imagery, the chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry said this week that he would like to spray-...
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DFES reveals pension plan
Thousands of lecturers in new universities could be allowed to draw part of their pension early while continuing to work part time under government proposals for reform of the system. David Miliband...
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Universities to get £2bn more from Government by 2008
The Government will increase its spending on higher education by £2 billion between 2004 and 2008, according to official figures. The Department for Education and Skills released information on its...
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