The fascination of fear
Weekly, the media highlight another threat to human health - from BSE to powdered baby milk. But how much do we really know about such risks? Since 1987 the Society for Risk Analysis - Europe has...
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A brief history of consumption
Fables of Abundance - Marketing Madness - The Unmanageable Consumer
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Intellectual seeding
Ravi Dayal charts the progress of the world's third largest publisher of books in English No one quite knows how many publishers of books there are in India, but estimates place the number at about...
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A blighted nation starved of help
This Great Calamity
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Russia's redundant revolutionary
The Gorbachev Factor - Life and Reforms
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The very titled deeds
The Fate of the English Country House - The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home
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Praise be Ford
Ken Mortimer argues that staff development in the car company giant is a prerequisite to survival in the brave new world of technology. Twenty-five years ago Ford was known as one of the best...
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United pitch in acut-throat world
Scottish universities are banding together to try to beat hot competition for research cash. John Laver explains. A consortium of the 13 Scottish universities, with Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Cancer Research Campaign 10 Cambridge Terrace London NW1 4JL Tel:...
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Urging a natural enmity
Biological pest control is backing the farmers' struggle against those age-old adversaries, mites, locusts and mealybugs. Tunde Fatunde reports One of the world's leading centres for biological...
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All about Honest Abe
Lincoln
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Profit in diversity
It is next to impossible to assess the true overall value of a species," Norman Myers writes in his review this week of a clutch of books on biodiversity (pages 22-28). We cannot tell what may come...
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The $64m helix
The Golden Helix - Genetic Engineering
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A 'post' man on his rounds
The Meanings of Mass Higher Education
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Jeux sans frontieres
This week The THES debate on Darwinism moves to its impact on subjects outside biology. Here Kam Patel talks to psychologist David Buss (below). Overleaf Tim Ingold considers the relevance to...