Water and troubled oil
Greenpeace may have won the political battle to stop Shell sinking its oil platform, Brent Spar, at sea but it has not won the scientific debate argues Tony Rice. Brent Spar is safely at anchor in...
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Events
FREDERICK DOUGLASS. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Frederick Douglass's first trip to Britain, The David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University will host an international...
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Chairs
ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL. The following titles have been conferred on: Paola Camici, consultant clinical scientist, now professor of cardiovascular pathophysiology; Raj Thakker, Medical...
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Awards
THE BRITISH ACADEMY. Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies - Professor A. van der Woude. Derek Allen Prize (in Musicology) - P. Holman. Grahame Clark Medal - Dr J. Coles. Kenyon Medal for Classical...
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Promise made real
Chris Hutchison reports from Montpellier on a bold attempt to bring together disparate disciplines at the cutting edge of high technology Forget the Festival de Cannes - it was computer scientists...
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Edinburgh wins Pounds 1m library slot
Edinburgh University's data library has won Pounds 1 million to back its status as the latest United Kingdom National Dataset Centre on the Internet. The designation from the Joint Information...
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Hyped text in context
Simon Jenkins argues that the printed word has little to fear from the Net One of the most common questions put to people in my profession is why is the media so obsessed with grimness? Why is our...
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Credit worthy
Acorn is offering interest-free credit on its computer range. The move comes after the appointment of David Lee as managing director to succeed Sam Wauchope and the alliance with Microsoft as a "...
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Resourceful work
Internet Resources is a Web newsletter from Heriot-Watt University library which points to higher education resources from www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/ irn.html.
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Arabic browser
A new multilingual Internet browser which includes Arabic, VOL 1.0, is available free from www.vol.it/VOLB.browser.html.
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New age data
Beyond the telephone, the television and the PC is a consultative document issued by the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) which seeks views on the "new information age just beginning". Copies...
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Web space
Internauts can use the Web to follow a commercial space mission due to be launched this month. The University of Houston's Wake Shield Facility will be carried into orbit by the Endeavour space...
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Engineering change
The Economic and Social Research Council is funding a Pounds 2.4 million computer-centred programme in cognitive engineering this autumn. Details: Anne Anderson; tel, 0141 339 8855, ext 5033. Email:...
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Antithesis
The phallic function of language also cannot be forgotten. Some chance. Whatever else changes in academic life, the propensity of students to devise disconcertingly sexual imagery in response to the...
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Alexei Sayle judges the Thames Valley University and Trotman and Company Ltd national video competition
(Photograph) - Celebrity stare: Alexei Sayle, one of the judges in the Thames Valley University and Trotman and Company Ltd national video competition for schools, colleges and universities earlier...