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Instruction in construction
Advanced Computer Architectures - A Design Space Approach - An Introduction to Assembly Language Programming and Computer Architecture
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It's goodbye He-Man, hello She-Man
Will the 21st century see the end of men as we know them? asks Jeff Hearn The end of the century. The end of ideology. The end of violence. What about the end of men? In the 19th and 20th centuries...
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Master of 'the moment'
Henri Cartier-Bresson, probably the century's greatest photographer, tells Andrew Robinson how chance, instinct and his training as a painter inform his art Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of a handful...
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Just a regulator type of guy
The government has bypassed the business community and appointed academic Derek Morris (above) to chair the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. He talks to David Walker Ya boo," the City commentators...
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At least Nixon kept his nuts...
Frans De Waal revisits some old friends who, 20 years ago, showed him the similarities between chimp rivalry and the power plays of politicians It is said that the best friends are made when you are...
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Islam's unofficial clergy are not people of the Book but slaves of the Book. All has been surrendered not to God but to a text. And it is a text that is gang-raped to yield whatever ephemeral slogan t
When Shabbir Akhtar published his doubts about Islam in The THES, fellow Muslims reacted with sympathy and sadness. Yet he remains convinced that Islam would benefit from a battle between free-...
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Pioneer attacks human cloning
Ian Wilmut was happy to clone Dolly the sheep but he is appalled by the prospect of cloning humans. Justine Burley reports on his Amnesty lecture Ian Wilmut, whose team at the Roslin Institute in...
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Identity crisis for blue-collar dons
Paris Strikes and street protests across France by students and professors at university technical institutes were headed off last week by education and research minister Claude All gre after round-...
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Britain promotes university links
Durban THE END of apartheid opened the doors of Africa's biggest economy to foreign influence and to a greater flow of the development aid South Africa sorely needs. Higher education, a strong but...
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Peer review: democracy, sausages and lotteries
LES ALLEN 'Throw out the panels, throw out the referees and have a lottery for all the funds' My experience with the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council suggests that the concerns about...
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Mini-watch
(Photograph) - Mini-watch: Thai students brazen out Chulalongkorn University's ban on miniskirts for which they face marks deducted from their good behaviour record
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Peer review: democracy, sausages and lotteries
ROYAL SOCIETY `Like democracy, peer review is the least corruptible approach that we have' The main job of peer review is to select the best research, the best papers and the best research workers on...
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Peer review: democracy, sausages and lotteries
MARK GRIFFITHS 'I'm afraid this paper reminds me of the sausages I had in England 35 years ago... ' I have taken a backseat interest in the peer review system for many years, wondering whether it is...
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Fact file
The higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: Of first-degree language graduates who went to work: * 28 per cent went into clerical and secretarial occupations * 24.2 per...