First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book that was the author's favourite among his own books: "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero...
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Poison plot is hard to swallow
The Double Life of Dr Lopez
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Fat fingers, juicy pies and Uncle Sam's sorely embarrassing not-so little problem
The Future of Freedom
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Guessing games with large needles
Complications
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Will we be the authors of our lives?
The Future of Human Nature
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Utopia: where pure politicians hand out free money
The Age of Consent
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Twist again on the Continent but just don’t ask for chips
A Dictionary of European Anglicisms - English in Europe
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Laurie Taylor column
Dear Maureen Well, here I am at last relaxing in this out-of-the-way spot in the Gers (I've been here two days and still haven't seen a single soul). Not that I'm complaining about such solitude. I...
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Leader: Make time for a fairer system of admissions
If this is results day, it must be time for the annual exchanges on the dumbing down of A levels. This year, however, the argument has moved on a stage: the focus is on proposed reforms of the exams...
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The lost chapters of a life in love and letters
Kathi Diamant's curiosity about a shared surname led to 20 years' study of the mysterious life of Kafka's last love that revealed new insights into a literary icon and a remarkable woman of strength...
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Monsters bred for vanity of man
Domestication allows humans to produce animals in colours and shapes that would never survive in the wild. Tim Birkhead argues that it is time for us to put a brake on the process The issue of...
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How to make campus a safer haven
Universities are using technology and traditional policing to boost security for staff and students. Lawrence Cohen reports An agitated undergraduate approached Peter after waiting until the rest of...
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'I put my head in the maw of the leviathan - Las Vegas'
Bruce Begout wanted to get below the surface of 'Sin City'. He found a capitalist virtual extravaganza, with no past and no present, bent on forcing everyone into submission or exile So what was I up...
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A hairy tale of how plum jobs can go sour
Producing an official history of a university can be tough. Michael North reports on how a clash of cultures can leave historians and PR departments trading accusations of spin and irrelevance Given...
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Keith Joseph suggested I 'go back and grow bananas'
Geoff Palmer arrived in England from Jamaica barely literate, yet he overcame that and the racism he found at every turn to become a world renowned professor of brewing. Olga Wojtas reports It is...