What's in a name?
Relief all round at victory for the Ivy League in its long-running trademark battle against a New Zealand company. Pacific Dunlop Asia tried to launch a range of "Ivy League" fashion accessories, but...
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Slabs of data worth mining for the gold
Tired of indifferent, unanalytical history textbooks? Jeremy Black opts for surprising alternatives that first appeared in 1902 - the Cambridge Histories. Textbooks. We all think we know what they...
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Labyrinthine voyage to the origin of time
The Great Barrier Reef
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Labyrinthine voyage to the origin of time
The Great Barrier Reef
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Subtle origins of Indo-China
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization
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Strong link between climate change and cholera outbreaks
Brussels, 24 Sep 2002 The link between climate change and cholera is three times as strong as first thought, according to researchers in Spain, Bangladesh and the USA. The relationship between...
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Change and omission
Foreign Policy in a Transformed World. First edition
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How UK can sell more '1st class tickets for life'
It is now more than two years since prime minister Tony Blair launched his initiative to attract more international students to the United Kingdom from non-European Union countries. The package of...
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Will plague and pox be the weapons of choice in future?
Lessons from the Soviet biological weapons programme are relevant to today's efforts to prevent the offensive use of disease, says John Hart The threat of biological warfare has been much debated...
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Vladivostok basks in its freedom
The insistence of the old Soviet regime that it approve any new university programmes no longer hangs heavily on a rejuvenated Far Eastern State University. President Vladimir Kurilov's Vladivostok...
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Oz gets tough on study visa
Following a huge increase in the number of foreign students seeking to enrol in Australian education institutions, the federal government last week adopted tighter visa regulations. During the past...
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Second tongue causes strife
Students in East Timor are finding their country's second official language tough to learn because there are so few opportunities to practice. After voting for independence from Indonesia in...
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New INNOGEN centre will help shape future science and technology policy.
Brussels, 14 Nov 2002 Experts in science, technology, economics and law will explore the impact of genomics on society, and of society on genomics, at a new centre based at the University of...
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Lifestyle lures Brits to study Down Under
The number of students leaving Britain's rainy shores to study at Australian universities has leapt by 44 per cent in the past year, new figures show. This year, 1,710 UK students opted for courses...
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The human-nature game
Environmental Movements in Asia