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Trying to keep a step ahead
Earthshaking Science
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Like a nuclear bomb at Waterloo
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Laurie Taylor Column
"The Royal Society of Chemistry is encouraging chemistry departments to broaden their portfolios - in order to survive." THE THES, April 25 University of Poppleton Department of Chemistry Hey, don't...
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Leader: Campus rewards stretch beyond the pay packet
Education secretary Charles Clarke must have known he was asking for trouble when he put his name to a foreword that compared universities favourably with multinational corporations in terms of...
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Leader: 'Grey-goo' scare stories don't merit new regime
Technology often has unintended consequences that turn out to be bigger than the intended ones. But this does not mean that Prince Charles is right to predict that nanotechnology, which replaces...
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Pack up the Ice cores and get ready to party: the continuing tradition of antarctic entertainment
The garage has become a hive of activity, writes Nathan Keen. All the snow blowers, Caterpillars and SkiDoos are gone. Carpenters are fashioning a stage from food boxes and spare shuttering plywood....
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Laid low by junk food and Jesus
Colin Samson reports on the native Innu of Labrador and their battle to reclaim independence and dignity. We watched helpless from the shore as our motor-powered canoe floated off into Utshisk-nipi....
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Dismal returns of micro-men
Forget the low pay of its academics, economics is in trouble because it is failing to shed light on everyday dilemmas, argues Alan Shipman. Economics can explain the demise of wheelwrights, weavers...
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Elegiac air honours more than lost lives
It is appropriate that Elgar's Nimrod echoes over casualties of war in Iraq, writes Kevin Jones. As the war in Iraq ends, one of the nation's favourite elegies - Nimrod, from Elgar's Enigma...
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Smears upon the walls are history
Deborah Lipstadt argues that erasing Soviet graffiti from the Reichstag will also erase part of Germany's past. Adolf Hitler despised the Reichstag. He avoided the neo-Renaissance former home of...
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Will new word order embetter us?
'Sometimes that doesn't happen all the time' - the verbal chaos of America's president has baffled many people, but Alan Cienki finds linguistic logic in it. At a press...
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'Petticoats are no joke' at 30 below
Using tarpaulins and potato crates, polar explorers staged theatrical works to save their sanity in the frozen darkness, writes Mike Pearson. Early in 1903, Lieutenant Michael Barne rigged his sledge...
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No stars for RAE funding change
We write concerning decisions taken by the Department for Education and Skills and the Higher Education Funding Council for England on the funding of research following the 2001 research assessment...
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No stars for RAE funding change 2
Daniel Hutto's comments on the research assessment exercise (Letters, THES , April 18) are misleading. A department that submits eight staff to the exercise, three of whom are internationally...