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  1. Food Fight breaks out over carbs research

    As the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting begins, we talk to the society's outgoing president and survey some hot topics "A calorie is a calorie is a calorie" no...

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  2. Maths model tells if couple can go on ad infinitum

    As the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting begins, we talk to the society's outgoing president and survey some hot topics Valentine's Day may be near, but with the...

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  3. Sceptics who needled doctors into making sure shots

    Although millions owe their lives to immunisations, anti-vaccine movements rise up regularly - but their effect is not all bad, writes Ray Spier As the American Association for the Advancement of...

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  4. A land cursed by despots and warlords

    Saddam has gone but the threat of a return to tyranny and an increase in anarchy still haunts Iraq, says Charles Tripp Until his capture in mid-December, the spectre of Saddam Hussein was a...

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  5. Please don go breaking my heart

    Stupid Cupid! Steve Farrar relates the pain of academic couples whose love must be a long-distance one The journey from Wales to Sheffield takes some four hours by train. It is not an especially...

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  7. G5's special pleading 1

    While vice-chancellors understandably seek the best for their institutions, it is difficult to see the rationale behind special financial treatment for undergraduate education at G5 universities ("...

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  8. G5's special pleading 2

    If the G5 universities recruit European Union and foreign students only at the expense of UK applicants, then perhaps the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England should at least reduce pro rata...

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  9. Rightwing 'insult'

    The accusations of the UK Independence Party about the UK's Jean Monnet Centres ("Shut Euro 'propaganda outlets', critics demand", February 6) are an insult to the staff's integrity. The problem...

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  10. Painful poses

    A crippling affliction is spreading among the academic profession, to judge by photos in The Times Higher . It is the Fingers Fixed to Famous Faces (FFFF) phenomenon. On January 30, it was Rita Levi-...

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  11. Book aid

    Reader sells Machiavelli book given away by The Times Higher for £10 on eBay ("Princely sum paid for THES freebie", February 6) - is this a sign of the paucity of academic salaries? Discuss. Hugh...

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  12. The ideal blend

    The difference between "academic" and "vocational" degrees would be clear enough if the adjective "vocational" were replaced by, say, "experiential" (Leader, January 16; Letters, January 23; 30)....

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  13. RS 'fatheads' 1

    I have a question for the anonymous fellow who said Susan Greenfield's possible appointment to the Royal Society was "an insult to the world-class scientists who are still on the waiting list" ("...

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  14. RS 'fatheads' 2

    Perhaps those prejudiced obscurantists who are seeking to block Susan Greenfield's election as a fellow should be dissuaded from their threatened resignations. Instead their titles should be changed...

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  15. Fool's words endure 1

    Mo Dodson's tirade against Paul Ormerod's review of Michael Albert's Parecon (Letters, January 30; Books, January 23) can't go unchallenged. Ormerod criticises Albert for his failure to provide...

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