On the intrinsic elegance of figures with divine proportions
Gnomon
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Murderous side of maternal instincts
Mother Nature
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When politics begot the modern
Dramatic Moments
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Battlegrounds for angry young men and nationalists
The Royal Court Theatre and the Modern Stage - Abbey Theatre 1899-1999
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Why Chinese is not so foreign
Learning to Read and Write
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Feeding frenzy is short of juice
The Predictors
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What's the code for 'We've heard this one before'?
The de Bono Code Book
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Vulcan's legendary landscape
Fire in the Sea
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Who'll be the last to beat the clock?
As the world's top athletes prepare for the Sydney Olympics, Geoff Watts asks if we can continue to set new records or if our species is fast reaching its best. Since 1954, when Roger Bannister ran...
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After fascism, ideological waste disposal,but what now?
Jan-Werner Muller asks if intellectuals in unified Germany are as powerful as their predecessors. Reports about the "crisis" or even the "death" of the intellectual tend to be greatly exaggerated and...
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There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya...
On the centenary of Nietzsche's death, Duncan Large and Richard Smith discuss his place in contemporary debate and ask how a Nietzschean campus might function. The post-structuralist Nietzsche vogue...
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Where lies the true measure of a man?
Jonathan Rutherford argues that a good man is today characterised by the quality of his relationships. In 1992, two academics - Norman Dennis and George Erdos - wrote a tract called Families without...
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Santa Clara
Ecuadorian archaeologists say that a cache of precious objects including more than 11,000 pieces of silver discovered by the Ecuadorian army on the island of Santa Clara in the southern province of...
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University College Scarborough
* University College Scarborough will officially become part of the university of Hull this week following two years of discussions.
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Istanbul
Faculty at Turkey's Dokuz Eylul University have finally had their choice of rector confirmed with the backing of the country's president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer. The higher education authority agreed to...