Don's diary: Filming Shanghai boom
Tuesday Below a fog of pollution and moisture, the Beijing summer is in full swing. We are on our way to shoot Shanghai Boom , the video for an Open University interdisciplinary course on the...
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In the news: Chris Higgins
World leaders at the Earth summit in Johannesburg heard yesterday from a trustee of Future Harvest UK, a charity that aims to understand how to feed the world while preserving its fragile environment...
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The benefits of bringing your husband to work
It's timwe for universities to recognise the needs of academic couples, say Phyllis Moen and Stephen Sweet. In the US and the UK, two in three couples with a child under the age of six are in dual-...
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Child trade on rise, study finds
International trafficking of children for adoption has reached unprecedented levels and will continue to rise, an academic study says. More than 32,000 infants, far more than previously thought,...
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NI celebrations mark students' peace efforts
Students and academics in Northern Ireland are celebrating the 30th anniversary of a unique partnership in which students led the fight against sectarianism. As the province erupted in violence in...
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Cambridge building Eden in the east
A decade after it seemed to be wilting as funding dried up, Cambridge Botanic Garden has marked its return to rude health with the unveiling of plans for a £16 million visitor centre, writes Steve...
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The Soviet Himmler
Beria; My Father
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New cynics will never flourish
A Question of Trust - Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics
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Reason from one who kept his head
Defying Hitler
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Warts of the war leaders
Allies at War - The War Within World War II
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Mud and a medieval Ricki Lake
The New Cambridge Medieval History
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Tearing up the 'Bible for illiterates'
The Forbidden Image
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a former lecturer at Oxford University: "'Good man,' said Dalmire, gratefully accepting the...
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The pain that made it possible for all Europe to gain
A History in Fragments
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Contested tales in a storied country
The Irish Story