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  1. Cut the complacency

    I was shocked by the article "Hefce plays down closures" (July 1) and, in particular, Sir Howard Newby's belief that there is no need for a "great moral panic". I'd like him to tell that to the...

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  2. Wellies, check. Bolly, check

    The Glastonbury Festival sits uneasily between Disney and democracy, says John Street, who wonders if there is any 'counter' left in its culture. Just four bands played when the first Glastonbury...

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  3. The last stand of Boudicca and the Celtic good guys

    An excavation in East Anglia hints at the Celts' resistance to Roman globalisation. Steve Farrar digs up the evidence. It did not seem like much. Burnt fragments of wattle and daub, a few flint-lined...

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  4. Poems from the academy selected by Christopher Ricks

    The Prelude, by William Wordsworth. Of College labours, of the Lecturer's room All studded round, as thick as chairs could stand, With loyal students faithful to their books, Half-and-half idlers,...

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  5. Poems from the academy selected by Christopher Ricks

    The Prelude , or, Growth of a Poet's Mind. But since the mind of William Wordsworth, over a very long life (1770-1850), never ceased to grow (even if it grew arthritic), it is not surprising that...

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  6. No scrimping, no RAE, no cynical old men...

    Top scientists are being wooed by an oasis of healthy salaries, hi-tech facilities and freedom. Anna Fazackerley joins them in the sun. David Lane discovered p53, the tumour suppressor gene that is...

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  7. It's a blessing to be born in the Garden of Eden

    Ethiopia offers rich ground for exploring the origins of humanity, and a few home-grown experts return after studying in Europe and the US, says Geoff Watts Palaeontologist Berhane Asfaw places a...

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  8. The bloody business of manly pursuits

    An academic victim of a violent attack in interwar London haunts Matt Houlbrook's exploration of a lost era's shifting sexual identities. One night in August 1929, two lives met. Philip was American...

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  10. ESO Very Large Telescopes study comet after impact

    Paris, 06 Jul 2005 Through the night of 4 July 2005, all European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes observed the effects of the impact on Comet 9P/Tempel 1. At sunset in Chile, the seven...

  11. SOHO spacecraft sees two comets plunge into the Sun

    Paris, 06 Jul 2005 As of 6 July 2005, 989 comets have been discovered, using the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, which is expected to discover its 1000th comet this...