You say 'terrorist', I say God-fearing Muslim
As power is handed over in Iraq, academics assess the impact of US foreign policy at home and abroad. Whatever America's intentions in the Middle East, most of the Arab world views the superpower as...
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Big History Qs: A perversion of the human will for survival
Why do empires rise? Richard Drayton asks what motivates one nation to subordinate and impose its value system on others All empires are expressions of inequality hidden behind a mask of community....
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Could our genes be a vaccine for Aids?
Can we use evolution to our advantage in the fight against disease? Martin Ince speaks to Sir David Weatherall (pictured) about the potential of molecular medicine Evolution by natural selection is...
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Statistical myths give lie to white-paper policy
The government hasn't noticed, but access is expanding, and the case for fees is unsound, argues Tim Curtin As the period for consultation on the government's higher education white paper ends, two...
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Commission publishes action plan for achieving three per cent objective
Brussels, 30 Apr 2003 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin presented on 29 April a new action plan containing a number of measures aimed at helping the EU to meet the three per cent target by...
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Utopia: where pure politicians hand out free money
The Age of Consent
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Industrial technologies - Establishing a strategic research agenda for nanoelectronics
Brussels, 14 Jul 2004 Large-scale research funding is crucial to ease the transition from micro- to nanoelectronics, according to a report from leading industrial and research organisations....
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It came from the East: the greatest gift of the wise men
Paper before Print
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Claims on armies of the dead
The Tarim Mummies
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'I've gone places others haven't'
Olga Wojtas talks to the Scots academic recently freed from an Indonesian jail. Lesley McCulloch, the Scots-born academic released from an Indonesian jail earlier this month, could have been free in...
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Easy links to significant others
Shamanism
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Melbourne
The first Unesco chair in cultural heritage studies in the Asia Pacific region has been created at Deakin University in Melbourne. A new centre will cooperate with universities in three Indochinese...
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New York
Human Rights Watch this month accused the government of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic of trying to silence political opposition by harassing the student-based Otpor (Resistance) movement....
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No victory in the peace to end peace
The Origins of World War I - Castles of Steel - The Great War - The First World War - Trench Art
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Lord Sainsbury, the science minister, has opened the Genetic Therapies Centre at Imperial College, London. Mumbai (Bombay) in India will house the Massachusetts Institute of...