A free-floating captain salvaging sunken past
Michael North meets the underwater archaeologist who discovered the legendary lost Egyptian city of Heracleion. It was an almost 2m-high stele, black granite, absolutely intact," says Franck Goddio,...
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Avian influenza: expectations surpassed as international community pledges US$1.9 bn in Beijing (plus links to other Rapid items)
Brussels, 18 January 2006 The international community has pledged a total amount of $1.9 billion dollars to fight avian influenza and prepare for a possible human influenza pandemic, EU Health and...
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Payments spark off row over sins of commission
Admissions ethics are in the spotlight after revelations that US universities recruiting abroad pay incentives to agents who sign students, a practice banned at home. Jon Marcus reports. When the...
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Cheese parties, without the wine
Negotiate the minefield of local customs and you can gain personal and professional benefits from teaching abroad, finds Anthea Lipsett. When Diana Leonard signed up to teach at Fatima Jinnah Women...
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Female students outnumber men across the board Female university students now outnumber men across all subject areas, from engineering to medicine and law to physical sciences. New figures from...
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International cohort grows
Britain's universities are becoming increasingly dependent on overseas students, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. With 13.4 per cent of students from abroad,...
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In becoming a eunuch, I became a better man
The once exalted status of castrati helped Richard Wassersug accept the changes caused by his cancer treatment My daughter and I were talking about outing oneself - the act of disclosing one's inner...
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China not a threat to EU and US research, Potocnik says
Brussels, October 2006 Europe and the US have nothing to fear from globalisation, and can in fact use it to their advantage, EU Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik told an audience at...
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EU and the Republic of Korea seal their agreement on GALILEO
Brussels, 11 september 2006. During the EU/South Korea summit held in Helsinki today, the two parties formally signed an agreement on co-operation on the European satellite radio navigation programme...
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Human misery's growth industry
The Bottom Billion
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Today's news
Oxford targets bright young things of eastern Europe Oxford University hopes to entice eastern Europe's brightest students with scholarships worth £25,000 a year from October. The university has...
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Embedding ethics in scientific practice
Brussels, 18 Oct 2005 As a satellite event to the World Science Forum, the meeting 'Embedding ethics in scientific practice' will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from 6 to 8 November. This event, a...
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Staking claims on the landscape
Nature in the Global South
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Ariane 5 launches two telecommunications satellites
Paris, 11 Aug 2006 On 11 August 2006, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary...
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Soas disrupted by protest over loss of two librarians
London's School of Oriental and African Studies faced severe disruption this week after the escalation of a protest about the redundancies of two specialist librarians. The school confirmed that 18...