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  1. Bias inquiry a waste

    Either the research assessment exercise is an objective assessment of research excellence, and so there can be no inherent sex bias ("Sex bias limits women in RAE", July 16). Or it is a fraudulent...

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  2. Cause and effect 1

    Pat Rattigan's argument (Letters, July 16) would not pass muster in a sixth-form debate. What is he saying, that vivisection research has resulted in a reduction in human health? Take any developing...

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  3. Cause and effect 2

    I'm a literature student not a medic, but it is obvious to me that it is Pat Rattigan who is living in a "fantasy world". If he hates modern medicine so much, then he is free to refuse to be treated...

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  4. Sordid subheading

    The subheading of Jeffrey Meyers' review of Peter Parker's biography of Christopher Isherwood (Books, July 16) describes him as "a sordid homosexual with 400 lovers". To conjoin "sordid" and "...

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  5. Overgeneralised and over here 2

    I am, of course, sorry to hear that Ayako Yoshino feels that some universities and individuals are not sufficiently sensitive to "foreign" students and their countries of origin. I am surprised,...

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  6. Overgeneralised and over here 3

    Having spent 25 years working with international students, I was interested to read Ayako YoshinoÕs article. But I wish that she had done her research before making the statements about academic...

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  7. Worrying case of can't write, won't write?

    Is dyslexia being used as a convenient excuse by lazy students who want to gain access to extra exam time and one-to-one tuition? The experts are divided. Chris Bunting reports. Peter Shaw has...

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  8. Hey! We're entitled to a Bill of Rights, too

    The Butler report has thrown up concerns about the state of British democracy. Huw Richards investigates as part of our series on democracies around the world. "It took me a long time to understand...

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  9. Come all ye control freaks, egomaniacs and anoraks

    As Prospect magazine publishes its list of the UK's greatest public intellectuals, Sean Coughlan asks why we are so obsessed with the top 100 of just about everything. What's the latest top 100 list...

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  10. Where Hippocrates meets Socrates

    Ray Tallis holds a chair in geriatric medicine and a fascination for philosophy. Geoff Watts meets a man of many talents. From the titles alone of his past half-dozen books you would know that Ray...

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  11. And the ones who got away

    Laurie Taylor gets a peek at the minds Prospect turned down and finds out why. It was not an easy matter for Prospect to compile its list of Britain's top 100 public intellectuals. Extensive...

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  12. Squeaky wheels get the grease

    With funding in short supply, social work must speak up for itself or it will go without. Terry Philpot reports. Despite the headlines about child abuse cases and the urgent calls for research into...

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  13. FP6 new instruments up for review

    Brussels, 21 Jul 2004 Two years into the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) and – as agreed with the Council of Ministers during its negotiation in 2002 – a mid-term evaluation has been carried out on...

  15. Ship-sinking monster waves revealed by ESA satellites

    Paris, 21 Jul 2004 Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment blocks have been accepted as a leading cause of large ship sinkings. Results from...