Real world, virtual risk
Against the Gods
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From bedazzled to besmirched
Anthony Eden
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Leaders of the pack set the pace
Our economic performance has improved markedly only since we started to offer opportunities for advanced professional and vocational training to a much larger slice of the population Nineteen ninety-...
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Liberty, neutrality, equity
Justice as Impartiality
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The brutal test of civilisation
Inhuman States
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Speaking Volumes: Edmund Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma
On Edmund Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma. What is the most influential book I have ever read? No contest: it has to be Edmund Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma. My copy is the...
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Substantial fare from meagre sources
The New Cambridge Medieval History
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Israel's lost PM
Moshe Sharett - Ben-Gurion's Spy
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from a novel published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and...
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In with the new
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch CELL DIVISION In Cell division is a delicate...
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In with the new
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch SOLAR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENT Some 6,800 feet...
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Red, white and blue
What is British art? Marcia Pointon thinks the answer should be found in the new Tate Gallery The Tate Gallery is facing its greatest challenge since the collection opened its doors to the public in...
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In with the new
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch The big biological news of 1996 looks likely...
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In with the new
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch The new year will be one of celebration for...
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The Qu'ran's call to arms
Jonathan Benthall examines zakat, the Muslim tradition of alms-giving It is a mass-produced plastic model of the octagonal Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem. Two circular strips of paper glued...