A mixed bag of buddies
On Friendship
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Digging up the bad taste bath house
Whitehall Palace
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Thoughts of Taj Mahal will leave you as drunk as a fox
The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin
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TLS: totally legendary substance
A mix of philistinism and high-brow makes for a peculiarly English journal, says Terry Eagleton. A conservative intellectual journal has a number of endemic problems. For one thing, conservatism is...
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Joyful buzz from life's work
The Bees of the World
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Are your beans clean and green?
Pesticide Chemistry and Bioscience - Inducible Gene Expression in Plants
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Marvels of our unknown planet
Mapping the Deep
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Extinction is not always for ever
Extinct Birds
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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 work by a contemporary of Dickens, who encouraged her early career: "'Edith!' said Margaret gently...
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Plant life in the round
Principles of Botany - Plant Life
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Laurie Taylor column
From: Maureen It is that time of year again when we deck the hall with boughs of holly and bicker about the departmental Christmas dinner. As you may recall, the Departmental Board decided that the...
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Letter: In brief 1
The point I made to the select committee ("HE 'overfishing a small pool'", THES , November 16) was about extra funding that might become available. I did not suggest that money should be transferred...
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Letter: In brief 2
Two references to Edward John Thompson (1886-1946) in my review of his biography by Mary Lago ("Forgotten role in Raj quartet", THES , November 16) were overzealously edited to become references to...
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Letter: In brief 3
I congratulate your use of the sheep photograph with "A sorry tale of BSE blunders" ( THES , November 2). Sheep are born with long tails, which are integral anatomical components and should not be...
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Letter: Researchers aren't the only elite 1
There are strong arguments for encouraging each university to concentrate on what it does best ("Blair plans to create elite research tier", THES , November 23). But this has to be more than a method...