Medical textbooks are a killer, Lords told
A leading health services researcher said this week that he had killed patients as a result of a technique he had been advised to use at medical school. Iain Chalmers, director of the UK Cochrane...
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Post A-level entry on way
The university admissions system looks set for a radical overhaul. It is likely to be replaced by a system in which students apply after they know their A-level grades. A unanimous decision that it...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who was born in El Quds: "If the knowledge of Orientalism has any meaning, it is in being a reminder of the seductive degradation of knowledge, of any...
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Speaking Volumes: New Society (1962-87)
Simon Frith on New Society (1962-87). When New Society was launched (as the social sciences' own New Scientist) on October 4, 1962, I was still at school. I bought the magazine every week and read it...
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Simon Cooke, who is researching the work of Wilkie Collins for a PhD at the University of Exeter, seeks a copy of Collins's I Say No, along with illustrated copies of any of the other novels. If...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON: Doctor of Arts: Michael Young, director of the Centre for Community Studies and trustee of Dartington Hall (1942-92); Harold Pinter, playwright. Doctor of Design: Cedric...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY: Research grants Dr B. Weiss, Pounds 100,161 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (gratings and amplifiers fabricated in planar Si02 structures using ion...
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Events
CAFAS: The Council for Academic Freedom and Standards will hold a meeting tomorrow, Saturday, January 28 in room MB307 at Birkbeck College, Malet Street, WC1 (nearest tube: Goodge Street). The...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN: David Alexander, senior lecturer, now has a personal chair in mental health (psychotherapy). UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON: Personal chairs have been conferred on: Pat Hendra (...
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Writer's past retreat
(Photograph) - Writer's past retreat: playwright Harold Pinter has received an honorary degree from the University of East London. He is pictured here outside his Worthing home in 1965.
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Awards
ENGINEERING: Hayley Gladstone was awarded the title 1994 Young Woman Engineer of the Year. The award is jointly sponsored by the Institution of Electronics and Electrical Incorporated Engineers and...
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Loaves, fishes and cereal yields
Tim Dyson argues that despite the explosion in world population, it will not outpace food production. Newspapers and television often give considerable coverage to those who argue that the world's...
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A blood-soaked land between two rivers
Iraq since the Gulf War - Inside the Arab World - The Shi'as of Iraq
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A thinking deficit
The Goals of Macroeconomic Policy
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Adam Smith altruist
Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics - Egalitarian Perspectives - Profits, Priests and Princes - Adam Smith's Discourse