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From Abakwa to Zydeco
The Dictionary of Global Culture
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First and last Romantics
The Romantics
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The myth of liberal conquest
Liberalism and its Discontents
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Jeeves, Smarties and arch aliens
From Wodehouse to Wittgenstein
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Liberty's flawed apostle
Reason and Republicanism
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How genetics can be good for health
A puree genius at his work Healthier chips: potato plants can be genetically modified to make firmer potatoes. When these are fried, they absorb less fat. This results in a crisper, lower-fat chip...
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Time and notion
He may have a Nobel prize, countless honorary doctorates and a viscountcy from the king of Belgium, but Ilya Prigogine's belief that time really does exist has alienated the physics community. Andrew...
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Regrets, he's had a few ...
Huw Richards talks to one ex-student union leader who is about to become president of his old university, Neil Kinnock Neil Kinnock was famously the first of a 1,000 generations of Kinnocks to go to...
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Who killed fair reporting?
Eighteen months ago six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was brutally murdered. The killer has never been found, so the media provided some suspects - her parents. The subsequent trial by TV so infuriated...
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How I fell out with Fat Puff and Bonbon
Alan Tormaid Campbell was a brilliant lecturer, a respected academic and a fine writer. So why, an industrial tribunal will hear, was he still a junior lecturer at Edinburgh University after 20 years...
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A puree genius at his work
Biologist Don Grierson (right) tells Alison Goddard about his race against the Americans to genetically engineer tomatoes and why his resulting tomato puree was such a success. But, below, in the...
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People's jury out on science
A puree genius at work. Tom Wakeford warns that the government must rethink the relationship between scientists and the public I believe that scientists have as much to learn about the needs of...
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Honorary degrees
University of Wales LLD: Edward Heath, member of parliament for Old Bexley and Sidcup, former prime minister (1970-74); Jacques Santer, president of the European Commission since 1995, prime minister...
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Chairs
London Institute Full professorships have been awarded to: Central St Martins College of Art and Design - Malcolm Le Grice, head of research; Caroline Dakers, cultural studies co-ordinator; Wendy...