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Fast-paced story without a plot
A History of Modern Computing
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Level-headed work
The Pattern on the Stone
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Show me the science
TV's science programming is a joke, says Nobel prizewinning chemistry professor Harry Kroto. That's why he has set up an alternative - with proper science and real experts. Is the time right for an...
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Surfing past terrestrial television
Recently, direct streaming of video images over the worldwide web has moved from the realm of science fantasy into one of today's most exciting internet technologies. Although still in its infancy,...
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Of uncertain tomorrows
A son of Palestine, a citizen of the US; respected by academe, demonised by Zionists; embroiled in a nine-year battle with leukaemia, Edward Said's life has been marked by uncertainty. Here he tells...
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The cancer in our charities
US cancer specialist Samuel Epstein has sparked a row with UK cancer charities by suggesting they are riddled with conflicts of interest -an accusation that they vigorously deny. Ayala Ochert reports...
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How hard-wearing is your software?
HYPERMEDIA AND THE WEB:An Engineering approach. David Lowe and Wendy Hall. Wiley. 623pp. Pounds .50. - ISBN 0 471 98312 8. Thirty years ago there was a series of software disasters. As a result...
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No fees for first-years is ruling party pledge on Canadian election trail
MONTREAL As Canadian tuition fees continue to soar, a provincial government that hopes to be re-elected next Thursday is offering a free year of university to high-school graduates. Saskatchewan's...
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Interest falls in benign orphan
When discovered in humans, the TT-virus caused a scare. Now that it is seen as harmless, the medical community's interest has waned. But this could be a mistake, Steve Farrar hears It is the disease...
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Top French institute censored
PARIS Lax administration, falsified payments and excessive granting of sick leave are among charges made in a damning report on France's principal education research institute. Philippe Meirieu,...
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Top unis link in distance battle
BOSTON Twenty-six top universities in the United States and Canada have united to promote their distance-learning courses in a single giant online catalogue for students in an effort to stave off big...
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Exclusive grant acts to tempt women
MELBOURNE An Australian university keen to bring more women into engineering has won a rare concession from equal opportunity bosses - the right to advertise and offer posts just for women. RMIT...
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Eyewitness
New Mexico's supreme court is considering whether the author of a critical biography of Jack Kerouac can continue to act as literary executor to the Beat writer's daughter, Jan Kerouac. The case is...
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Light my fire
About 2,000 years ago Plutarch observed that the student's mind was a fire to be lit, not a vessel to be filled (Teaching, "The fallacy of facts", THES, September 3). Dave Radlett Firelighter in law...