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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a researcher into dark times: "'Beth Hamishpath' - the House of Justice: these words shouted by the...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Charities Dr W. Siebert, Pounds ,571 from Joseph Rowntree Foundation (company recruitment policies - implications for unskilled workers); Mr J. Visser, Pounds 45,167 from...
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Honorary degrees
University of Bristol DLit: Basil Davidson, veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, author and historian University of Aberdeen LLD: Marianne Bastid-Bruguiere, professor and director of research at the...
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Appointments
University of Glasgow Mungo Campbell (above) has been appointed deputy director of the Hunterian Art Gallery at the university. He is the former assistant keeper of prints and drawings at the...
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Tense, nervous headache? Take Stoics
Forget psychiatry andother modern approachesto relieving depression. Ancient Greek philosophy holds the key to a happy life, as Richard Sorabji explains to Lucy Hodges Overwhelmed by events? Help may...
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Chutzpah on the scales of justice
Alan Dershowitz defended Claus von Bulow and helped O. J. Simpson beat a murder rap. Here hetalks to Tim Cornwell about hislatest concern, the future of the Jewish race Today is Wednesday," Alan...
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How a tribal chief got buried in Liverpool
A 19th-century Aboriginal leader's skull lies in Everton cemetery, but attempts to repatriate it have so far foundered. Chris Johnston reports Cressida Fforde is calm, rational, if not a little...
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Starter for ten: why does a quiz show matter?
Is the TV quiz show University Challenge just a game or an important shop window for universities? Phil Baty reports It's just a bit of fun," insists Peter Gwyn, producer of Granada Television's...
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Can this man go where no physicist has gone before?
Lee Smolin aims to breathe new life into cosmology by borrowing concepts from biology, notably natural selection. Ayala Ochert reports When cosmologist Lee Smolin turned to biology for inspiration...
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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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Awards
American Society of Limnology & Oceanography The 1996 Raymond L. Lindeman award for the most outstanding paper in English on an aspect of aquatic science went to Chris Freeman, school of...
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Chairs
University of Bristol K. Johnson, associate professor in the department of surgical sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been appointed to the chair in companion animal studies. Queen...
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Tourists threaten Mauritius coral reefs
Julia Hinde marks World Oceans’ Day with a trawl of marine researchTourism in the tropics may be killing the very thing which is its life blood, say marine biologists from the University of Wales,...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: *Staff costs at higher education institutions represented 57.9 per cent of total expenditure *There was a 26 per cent...