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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES As global demand for higher education rises, universities are offering tuition via the internet. In doing so, they may be risking their reputations. DAILY TELEGRAPH Beautiful women go...
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Under the oceans, mountains to climb
Mid-Ocean Ridges
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Understanding an angry earth
Encyclopedia of Volcanoes
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Hidden fossils go on the record
Fossil Crinoids
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Of famine, genocide and slicing up brains
A century of lost lives has changed a nation, writes Adam Hochschild. When my family and I were living in Moscow some ten years ago, the only foreigners in a sombre, fortress-like apartment block, a...
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Eyes to the sky for holy thought
God's Equation
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A last word on the Führer and Third Reich
Hitler, 1936-1945
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Molecules, candy and microwaves
The New Chemistry
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Surveying a monumental landscape from the shoulders of giants
Proteins, Enzymes, Genes
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is a genial tale of a German tour by an idle fellow: "'What we want,' said Harris, 'is a change.'"...
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Laurie Taylor column
SENIOR DON RIGGED RESULTS - SHOCK CHARGE Media studies academics across the country are reeling from the news that one of their senior colleagues, Dr Piercemuller of Poppleton University, has been...
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Letter: Chewing over Gum(1)
Fay Weldon's tilt at political philosophy does not amount to a hill of beans ("Towards a grand universal morality", Millennium Magazine , THES, December 22/29). Our godless age has, she argues, so...
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Letter: Chewing over Gum(2)
Congratulations on that spoof first-year essay by Fay Weldon. J. C. O'Neill Edinburgh
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Letter: Our very own RAE of sunshine
It never ceases to amaze me that academics continue to attack the research assessment exercise ("Poisonous exercises", THES, December 22/29). For those who enter the profession because research is...