A brief history of consumption
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In the shadow of Saatchi
'It could be you!' The glittering figures of Britain's hot young artists tower above this year's graduates. But have Thatcher's children been prepared for reality and how many will hit the jackpot?...
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Russia's redundant revolutionary
The Gorbachev Factor - Life and Reforms
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Power to the regions
SWOT opportunities: A growing focus on the regions, exemplified in Spain and now Scotland, offers new opportunities to UK universities. Paul Heywood hopes they will be able to exploit them. It has...
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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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Pressing a bitter battle of words
The failings of university presses are notorious among academics - but authors have their own shortcomings. Brian Brivati outlines a charter for a better working relationship between both sides....
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Supermarket sweep?
Porridge Ingredients: oats, water, heat. The best porridge is made from pinhead oatmeal, really coarse oatmeal. Put one scoop oatmeal with three scoops water into a pan. Bring to the boil, stirring...
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A blighted nation starved of help
This Great Calamity
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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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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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The very titled deeds
The Fate of the English Country House - The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home
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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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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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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...