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Is it a bird? Is it a serpent?
The Myth of Quetzalcoatl
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A coalition armed with good excuses
The Road to War in Serbia - Kosovo
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Higher channels
John Davies gives the schedules a quality audit (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Does it matter that there are no historians to give us a measured judgement on Anthony Eden's career in...
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From dead tired to dead
Do you feel exhausted after lunch? Then, like nine out of ten of your colleagues, you are sleep deprived - and the consequences could be catastrophic. Ayala Ochert talks to sleep researcher William...
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Chants would be a fine thing
Are today's students and academics too busy to protest or are they just getting angry about different things? Harriet Swain reports Universities took to the streets during last month's May Day riots...
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If we could talk to the animals...
What do a honey bee's dance and a monkey's screech have in common? Marc Hauser describes how open-minded research is throwing up new insights into how animals think and communicate Have you ever had...
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A life less extraordinary
Jenny Newman quit life as a nun to pursue a career as a writer and academic. It was an agonising wrench but, as she tells Harriet Swain, cloisters, medieval traditions and hierarchies are as much a...
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Hands-on route to a TV career
Licences for new local TV stations are being welcomed by media academics and students, reports Gideon Burrows Breaking the gloomy skyline above the student houses on the outskirts of Manchester, a...
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Seoul
Hundreds of leftist students demanded an end to the United States military presence in South Korea and called for a government condemnation of the bombing by a US jet fighter on a range near a...
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Cambridge opens Turkish talks
Cambridge University has entered into talks with Turkey's higher education authority to co-operate on internet tuition. Anil Seale, of the Cambridge Overseas Trust, has been in discussions with...
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Increase in black applicants
The number of black applicants for full-time higher education courses has increased by 3.3 per cent on last year, while the number of Asian applicants has increased by 2.6 per cent, according to the...
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Factors in good multimedia design
The players. The artists Artists generally work with static images to present a message or induce emotions. At times, the message may have many interpretations, and it is left to the viewer to form...
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Move to end funding split
Funding chiefs are considering a more common approach to resourcing further and higher education. The move aims to do away with "perverse" financial incentives for FE colleges to switch sectors as...
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad held an unscheduled closed-door meeting with 34 undergraduates from the International Medical University to discuss their claim that the university had...