Weapons disposal launches into profit
A submarine rocket launch in Russia could point the way to a new means of getting rid of Cold war weaponry that brings in a profit instead of costing money. Scientists from the Technical University...
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Board invites arts bid for cash
GRANTS of up to Pounds 500,000 will be given to research projects by the new Arts and Humanities Research Board if plans are approved in the autumn. Researchers will be able to ask for a maximum...
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Patronage under fire
A CAMBRIDGE University don imprisoned for knowingly distributing HIV-infected blood in the 1993 French blood and Aids scandal was again at the centre of a controversy this week as it emerged that the...
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Manchester to become computer superpower
A Pounds 26-million supercomputer service funded and managed under a private finance initiative will go to Manchester University. The machine will be based on Silicon Graphics' latest T3E-1200E...
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Asia crisis hits student subsidy
THE FINANCIAL crisis in Asia is likely to force New Zealand to renege on a plan to boost university and polytechnic spending by $NZ103 million (Pounds 33 million). Prime minister Jenny Shipley said a...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a colourful tale of Washington intrigue written by an unidentified source...
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Europe's identity crisis
Dark Continent
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Past walks with the present in Algeria's bloodletting
The Agony of Algeria
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Apartheid Japan-style
Cartels of the Mind
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From Abakwa to Zydeco
The Dictionary of Global Culture
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First and last Romantics
The Romantics
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The myth of liberal conquest
Liberalism and its Discontents
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Jeeves, Smarties and arch aliens
From Wodehouse to Wittgenstein
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Liberty's flawed apostle
Reason and Republicanism
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How genetics can be good for health
A puree genius at his work Healthier chips: potato plants can be genetically modified to make firmer potatoes. When these are fried, they absorb less fat. This results in a crisper, lower-fat chip...