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Delicious dips into the vortex
The Burlington Magazine
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Artistry that's off the shelf
Five Hundred Years of Book Design
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Ethical sheep and moral maize
Biotechnology
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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 Nobel prizewinning physicist with a sceptical interest in philosophy: "The origin of the universe is...
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Minds run free with the debris of giants
The Archaeology of Nostalgia
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The formidable life of Nemo Sciat
Becoming George
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Grooved for success up to the bitter end
The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume 12
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Laurie Taylor Column
UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON Urban Blight Conference August 4-7 2003 Dear Delegate, I am now enclosing travel details to assist you with your journey to Poppleton for the above conference. HOW TO GET HERE...
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Leader: Endowment fall highlights taxing nature of giving
This week's analysis of wealth by The THES shows that between 2000 and 2002 the total value of university endowments in the UK fell by a fifth. Most UK universities have weathered the storm fairly...
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Leader: EU ruling on stem cells smooths research path
The European Commission's ruling on when and how its money can be used for stem cell research (page 12) is a masterpiece of tact. But it shows the limitations of research commissioner Philippe...
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An invitation to dine at the periodic table
When Lutz Tietze hung up his lab coat, his students presented him with a collection of recipes from the world's top organic chemists. Karen Gold found the work far from formulaic. A Buchner funnel,...
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First we wake it up, then we wipe it out
Tuberculosis lies dormant in about one-third of the human race. Now scientists want to end its slumber, writes Angharad Davies. For two years, my friend's father, Ken, had to strip naked and lie...
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Made by our own hands
The hand made us more than just gifted chimps and put us on the road to becoming self-aware humans, argues Raymond Tallis. Man's place in nature is writ upon the hand," the great anatomist Frederic...
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President caught up in gangster family ties
Is the head of a US state university covering for his runaway mob chief brother, or is he a maligned innocent? Stephen Phillips reports. Police caution the public not to approach James "Whitey"...