A measure of myopia
The facts and figures make it clear that investment in education is now imperative, argues Francis Green In a break with tradition, chancellor Gordon Brown has announced in advance of the budget that...
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Why I ...think a dialogue with the public will undermine science
Bill Durodie Research student in political science New College, Oxford Last month I attended the first National Forum for Science organised by the Royal Society under the rubric "Do we trust today's...
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Figures show boom in mature applicants The number of people applying for a university or college place is up 1.5 per cent on last year, according to data released today by the Universities and...
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The cathartic crowd-puller
Dying for the Gods
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Shell-case table gongs and shrapnel ashtrays
Trench Art
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Wage war with words
The Language of War
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How smoking changed course of American history
Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756-63
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An impressionistic account misses the bigger picture
Eyewitnessing
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Enfant terrible is no sheepish customer
Australia and the Global Trade System - Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows
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Surreal dream of ketchup and ale
The Secret File of Joseph Stalin - Everyday Stalinism
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Is Earth just an alien's lab?
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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Heart of the moral matter
Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy
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Don't wimp out of odd marriage
Can a Darwinian Be a Christian?
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a novelist who was once a policeman: "U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma...