Hat trick
(Photograph) - Hat trick: in Philip Treacy's design the embryo's developing heart tubes spout out of a creation fashioned from milliner's straw
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Appointments
The Rockefeller Foundation. Gordon Conway, vice chancellor of the University of Sussex, has been named the 12th president of the foundation, effective April 1, 1998. University of Wolverhampton John...
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Killing them softly
Our archaic murder laws should be modernised to encompass mercy killing, argues Mary Warnock whose husband, Geoffrey, was helped to die in 1995 In discussing whether to permit euthanasia, the first...
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Sir Geoffrey Warnock
Sir Geoffrey Warnock, distinguished philosopher, former vice chancellor of Oxford University and Mary Warnock's husband, died in 1995, aged 72. He was suffering from a rare lung disease which was, in...
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The neuron in black Lycra
Out of the whole collection, writes Perminder Kalsi, my favourite design to work on was the black "neuron" dress made from black Lycra jersey with an asymmetric hem and embroidered twisted yarns...
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Witches and wisdom
Does a first-rate education necessarily produce a great thinker? A witchcraft trial in the 17th century suggests not. Gilbert Geis explains Halloween puts broom-riding witches into the limelight one...
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Clothes for the creation
Science and art met in a fashion show to represent the first 1,000 hours of a human's life on earth. Fashion designer Helen Storey explains No fashion collection can exist without the "invisible...
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From the plough to the plate
Killer diseases will only be eradicated from food by the advent of a regulatory agency which puts the interests of consumers above those of farmers, argue Tim Lang, Erik Millstone and Mike Rayner...
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Indicted States of America
Historian Francis Jennings tells Harriet Swain why he delights in debunking the official history of America and why he feels that political correctness on US campuses is in fact racist Francis "Fritz...
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The stress dissident
Yvonne McEwen has angered the counselling world by claiming that trauma victims do not need a talking cure. But what are her own qualifications? Olga Wojtas reports When Yvonne McEwen was appointed...
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Chairs
Queen Mary and Westfield College Stefan Priebe, professor of psychiatry at Freie University of Berlin, chair of social and community psychiatry; I. Sanderson, Harvard Medical School, Genegal Hospital...
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Fellowships
Sheffield Hallam University Fellowships have been awarded to: Dorothy Dixon-Barrow, founder member of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination and the Sheffield and District Afro-Caribbean...
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Honorary degrees
University of Leeds. Honorary doctor of science degrees were awarded to the following on the opening day of the British Association Annual Festival of Science: Richard Sykes, director and chief...
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Dance and drama crisis
Dance and drama schools' intakes are up to 50 per cent below target because students cannot afford to take up places, ministers have been told. The failure of an interim support scheme for dance and...
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Waves help reveal the Sun's secrets
Astronomical figures provide rays of hope Applied mathematics has proved a key research tool in investigating the mysteries of the Sun. It has been known for about two decades that the Sun is an...