Those fallible followed fellows
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Grants
University of Edinburgh Research grants Dr B. Sheldon, Pounds 78,343 from NERC (research fellowship); Professor W. Hill, Pounds 30,302 from MRC (supplement); Dr M. Fransman, Pounds 34,292 from the...
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Honorary Degrees
University of East London DSc: James Lovelock, independent scientist, visiting fellow at Green College, Oxford, originator of the Gaia hypothesis; Clement Ramsdale, expert entomologist with the World...
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Appointments
University of Buckingham Robert Taylor, pro-director at the School of Oriental and African Studies, will succeed Richard Luce in January 1997 as vice chancellor. University of Kent at Canterbury...
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Fellowships
Royal Northern College of Music John Casken, composer and professor of music at Manchester University, member of the RCNM board of governors; Kent Nagano, musical director of the Halle Orchestra;...
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Can a foetus feel pain?
Research into what foetuses feel is all too often prey to distortion by political propagandists, argues Sara Abdulla. Modern medicine throws up just as many questions as it does answers. In few other...
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A human foetus at around 20 weeks
(Photograph) - A human foetus at around 20 weeks. Foetuses undergoing operations have shown signs of stress, but an anaesthetised adult patient would respond in exactly the same way and clearly feel...
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A collision course with censorship
The recent banning of the film Crash illustrates the need for protection from growing state interference with what is shown on screen, argue Julian Petley and Martin Barker. Bottomley launches TV...
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Confessions of a sculptor
Anthony Gormley's figures can be found in such disparate places as a fjord and a cathedral crypt. Elaine Williams talks to him about the sources of his creativity. Anthony Gormley is sitting in the...
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Out of African America
Academic Richard Majors tells Katrina Wishart about his pioneering work on race relations which started in the United States and is continuing at Manchester University. As soon as Richard Majors...
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The boys from Via Panisperna
A newly discovered diary reveals how Mussolini's race laws killed Italian physics. Paul Bompard reports. In the mid-1930s, Italy was a world leader in nuclear research. A generation of Italian...
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Deconstructive dismissal
Introductory courses in literary theory are failing to inspire students to produce new and exciting readings of texts and a growing number of critics want it abolished for first-year English students...
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Unsatisfying textual encounters
Robert Waugh concludes that literary theory leaves many students with more thinking and reading than they can digest and a huge gap between their critical beliefs and their critical performance. My...
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Spiritual settlement
Glasgow University apparently believes the only way of settling the pay dispute is to appeal to a higher power. The stop press in its staff newsletter announces that ACAS is set to "to meditate''.
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Oxbridge twist
There is doubtless a good reason for it, but we cannot help being a little bit surprised that the new Cambridge Journal of Economics is to be published by the Oxford University Press.