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  1. Stubbing out all pleasure

    It is difficult enough for smokers to give up their beloved weed but now, it seems, stubbing cigarettes out of their lives altogether may make it harder for them to get pleasure from anything else. A...

  2. Branch review of tree of life

    The tree of life may be in need of some radical surgery. New ideas suggest the last common ancestor - the ancient organism from which all known life has descended - may have been a more complex...

  3. Call for more cooperation

    French scientists say research must be far more interdisciplinary. Jane Marshall reports. Public research in France must forsake its rigid compartmentalisation to become more multidisciplinary, the...

  4. Chinese toil with loess adjustments

    Like avalanches, mass movements of soil can leave a trail of death and disaster. Peter Conradi reports on how scientists in China are trying to prevent them.In the past century, hundreds of thousands...

  5. Election brings promises of cash

    Canada's government has let loose the purse-strings for research, Philip Fine writes The government of Canada played a pre-election hand last month with an economic statement that offered a flush of...

  6. Plan for Wellcome relief

    The Wellcome Trust has unveiled a £3 billion, five-year plan that underlines its growing importance to British science. The corporate plan, the medical charity's first, sets out objectives and values...

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  7. SA crisis leaves students penniless

    Zimbabwe's financial and political crisis has left hundreds of Zimbabwean students studying at universities in South Africa penniless and battling to make ends meet. Among the 4,000 or more affected...

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  8. Agony aunt

    Helen Johnstone , Registry University College Worcester . A: The rivers are getting higher as water comes down from Wales. We have played it by ear so far. We have been catching up from last week,...

  9. Star Turn: Paul Bridge

    Pat Leon saw the man from Kew sharing his passion for fungi with Birkbeck students. Paul Bridge has a lifelong love affair with fungi. It took him away to Papua New Guinea and other tropical climes...

  10. How to woo students from overseas

    WHAT: Harinder Bahra argues that international students are not units of finance to be thrown in with the rest of the student cohort. WHY: A warm welcome on arrival and sensitive support throughout...

  11. Inspectors' lives after Woodhead

    Does anyone know exactly what the assessors are doing? Geoffrey Squires thinks it is about time we asked them. When someone comes to write the history of British education in the late 20th century,...

  12. Juan, Carlos and Maria learn Welsh

    Robert Owen Jones went to Patagonia to save a dying language. Adrian Mourby reports on the resurrection of Welsh after Perón. Robert Owen Jones loves his subject, but even he admits that socio-...

  13. Maybe it's because of my state of mind

    Simon Thurley considers the protean nature of England's capital city Books about London are currently almost two a penny. London's continued economic prosperity and cultural revival seem to be a gold...

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