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Science profits from 'hot' fossils
European palaeontologists are benefiting from the illegal side of the international fossil trade. Rare specimens of extinct life, such as Brazilian Pterosaurs and Chinese dinosaur eggs, are being...
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Tigers, tigers spurning rights
The West may believe that its concept of democracy should be applied universally but many in East Asia insist on an alternative model. Michael Leifer reports. When the Cold War ended the ideological...
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The Edward Said of the ancient world
Heresy in the University - Afrocentrism
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Saving fragile forests
David Thomas reports on the international effort to preserve the lifeblood of Vietnamese coastal communities from further destruction Between 1961 and 1971, 19 million gallons of the deadly herbicide...
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Warwick's industry turns profit from academic expertise
Tony Tysome and Harriet Swain go in search of the Midlands, a region that is busy bridging an east-west divide, increasing participation rates and developing links The University of Warwick is...
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Lessons closer to home
The Bangkok gathering of heads of Asian and European governments earlier this month was unusual. It took one regional grouping, the Association of Southeast Asian States (ASEAN), to bring another,...
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Asian forces alter the status quo
The Global Competitiveness of the Asian Firm
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New power generation
A lightweight electricity generator developed by Imperial College engineers is set torevolutionise industry. Kam Patel reports A company formed on the back of revolutionary lightweight electricity...
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Afghan intellect blossoms in exile
Despite a Taliban crackdown on secular education, Afghan intellectuals are fighting back, albeit by establishing a university in neighbouring Pakistan. Chris Bunting reports. Mohammad Akbar Kargar's...
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Hogmanay kiss mixes emotions
Wanseo Koo's introduction to the traditional British Christmas dinner was a festive Yorkshire pudding. Mr Koo, a Heriot-Watt student from South Korea, spent Christmas with friends whose oven broke...
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Mature keep away in droves
EFFORTS to improve the range of students at university appear under threat from latest application figures, which show continued steep falls in mature, overseas and sub-degree applicants. Data from...
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Teeming pressures of the new urban jungles
Mega-City Growth and the Future
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Singular failure to tackle plurality
The under-representation of non-white academics in British universities ("The colour blind spot", THES, March 5) is little short of a scandal, but by focusing almost exclusively on recruitment...
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Eye Witness
Violent demonstrations in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, are a daily reminder that the result of the July general elections is still contested and that the country's bloody history cannot be easily...