Galactic gazers predict shake-up
The cost of joining the European Southern Observatory in a bid to put the United Kingdom back in astronomy's premier league spells big cuts in facilities elsewhere. The move is to be discussed at a "...
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Saintly thoughts
(Photograph) - St Luke, pictured in St Augustine's AD 580 copy of the gospels, is the oldest manuscript in the Parker library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The college is raising Pounds 20...
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US offers haven for refugee scholars
An academic fired by the University of Belgrade has spoken out about his shame in an open protest against the oppressive climate in Serbia. A letter from chemical engineer Obrad Savic was to be read...
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Wicks warns colleges
Too many further education colleges are "coasting" along in quality and standards, lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks warned this week. Inspection reports showed a growing number of colleges...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a regal-sounding work by a satirist born in Bengal: " As I write, highly civilised human beings are...
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The threat posed by insensate power lust
The Rape of the Constitution? - Controlling the State
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When common sense and philosophy fail...
An Anatomy of Thought
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Things that were better not left unsaid
The Harvard Guide to Psychiatry
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Deep into the bison's eye
The Cave at Altamira
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Nomads who left few clues
Scythian Gold
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Looking eastwards for links to three cultures
Aegean Art and Architecture
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Woken by deciphering kiss
The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings
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Unlocking the past with a ceramic key
The Maya Vase Book, Volumes I-V
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Wannabe wanaks' power rise
Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces
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Dynastic upheavals in the shadow of the pharaohs
The Kingdom of Kush