Slicing the baby in half
Screen Violence
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Straight furrows in heavy ground
Agriculture and the Citizen
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Take-off gives bugs the shiver
The Thermal Warriors
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The state-of-the-art snake
Rattler!
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The struggle for nutmeg
Plants, People, and Culture
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What lurks beneath the skin
Franz Kafka
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Trees of life run rings round creationists
New Uses for New Phylogenies
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Trees of life run rings round creationists
NEW USES FOR NEW PHYLOGENIES Edited by Paul H. Harvey, Andrew J. Leigh-Brown, John Maynard Smith, and Sean Nee Oxford University Press, 349pp, Pounds 39.50 and Pounds 19.99. ISBN 0 19 854985 7 and...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions was probably written at night: "For a long time I used to go to bed early." The winner of last week's competition, who correctly identified J. D. Salinger's The Catcher...
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Awards
SCOTTISH COLLEGE OF TEXTILES Christopher Maddox, professor and principal of the Scottish College of Textiles, was awarded the Weavers' Company Silver Medal at an international Textile Institute...
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The Korean connection
Foreign investment in manufacturing industry can have a huge pay-off for British universities and research if all sides are willing to build a partnership, Yong-Doo Cho argues. The Koreans are coming...
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Firm foothold for leap to Europe
Already 130 South Korean companies are operating in Britain and there are more to come. Elaine Carlton reports on how universities have greeted the newcomers. British universities expect significant...
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The temptation for Taiwan
The number of Taiwanese students at university in Britain has soared over the past ten years. In 1986, only 167 were studying here. This year there are more than 12,000. The explosion reflects the...
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Keeping a welcome in the valleys
Brian Morgan reports on the secret meeting to build a South Korean plant for making semiconductors in Newport, Wales. Welsh academic institutions have yet to see evidence of any financial benefit...
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People who put the widget in a can of ale
Success breeds success, argues Frank Hartley. And the cash pouring into Cranfield University from industry is proof. This year's figures of university earnings from industry revealed two interesting...