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Pennsylvania's polymath
Benjamin Franklin
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When apple pie still tasted good
Grand Expectations
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The mother of intervention
A Revolt Against Liberalism
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Swinging into reaction
Reassessing the Sixties - Making Peace with the 60s - A Tale of Two Utopias
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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 novelist who died in 1991: "Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistent depressive...
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Appointments
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council The president of the board of trade has appointed the following to serve on the council: Wendy Hall, professor of computer science in the department...
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Chairs
University of Aberdeen Graeme Simpson, formerly business analyst and business opportunities group manager with Esso Exploration and Production UK Ltd. has been appointed to the first Schlumberger...
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Honorary degrees
University of Wales DLitt: Anthony Conran, poet, translator and literary critic; Geraint Gruffydd, emeritus professor, director of the University of Wales centre for advanced Welsh and Celtic studies...
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Jag man sees the green light
Car design guru James Randle tells Kam Patel how his taste for speed has been overtaken by concerns about pollution of the planet James Neville Randle leans back in his chair and laughs as he...
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The struggle for equality
The latest figures show that 8 per cent of British professors are women, with older universities among the worst offenders. Sian Griffiths sorts the bad from the slightly better Ann Chant, head of...
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Get rich and save the world
Martin Ince outlines the increasingly influential views of Ernst von Weizsacker, who says we can produce more while using less resources Ernst von Weizsacker has a thing about yoghurt. Not just any...
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Is the truth out there?
Regarded with suspicion by thinkers on both the left and right, who accuse him of vagueness and relativism, Richard Rorty is continuing unabashed with his project to disprove the existence of...
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Proxy wars amid the groves
Richard Clogg explains the 1920s case of the London University professor forced to quit by his Greek paymasters and why the saga may be repeated elsewhere Some years ago I looked into the...
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Success in the stars
The joint Nasa/European Space Agency Cassini-Huygens mission to the planet Saturn will be launched this autumn. John Zarnecki, of Kent University, has spent the past seven years heading a team...