O come on all ye faithful, away with the manger
Peter Atkins rejoices as Christmas's religious trappings are overwhelmed by the tidal wave of commercial excess Thank goodness it is Christmas. For those of us who regard Christianity (like all...
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Study abroad threat
Jim Coleman has drawn attention to the Sorbonne declaration, signed by the UK, that commits its signatories to encouraging students to spend a part of their course studying in another country ("Make...
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Theology and equality
Objections to theology in British universities are sometimes hysterical and preposterous, but Manfredi La Manna (THES, Letters, November 20) presents a sober and interesting argument. It goes like...
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Animal tests: facts not emotion
Colin Blakemore's statement that "without animals medical research would simply stop" ("We're all scared to death", THES, December 11) clearly needs qualification. The cry of an anxious and fearful...
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Animal tests: facts not emotion
Generalising research findings across different populations is, as trained scientists ought to know, methodologically unsound guesswork. In the case of human medicine the real, the only, test is the...
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UN hit by vigilantes
The US and UK's unilateral strikes against Iraq have undermined the UN's mission, say Iraq represents a clear and present danger to the United States and the world. These words were invoked...
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Why I ...
I think children should learn economics well before Christmas There is a link between the toys children pester their parents for at Christmas, how the economy works and how it can manipulate us....
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Canaries to Turkey
The Complete Birds of the Western Palearctic on CD-Rom. Edited by David Snow & Christopher Perrins. Oxford University Press, +44 1865 267979 ISBN 0 19 268579 1 - Pounds 199+VAT. Windows 3.1,...
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Innocence rewarded
Top prize in the Europrix 98 multimedia art contest (www.europrix.org) has gone to Real World Multimedia for the CD-Rom Ceremony of Innocence, which won two Bafta awards in October. More than 100...
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Mind matters
The University of Arizona's web-based course on modern science and the mind, organised by Alwyn Scott, will run from January 19 to May 15, 1999. Leading thinkers in physical science, biology, social...
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Reviews
WHITE NOISE: an A-Z of the Contradictions in Cyberculture. By Andrew Calcutt. Macmillan, 192pp, Pounds 40.00 - ISBN 0 333 69955 6. Calcutt, commissioning editor for Channel Cyberia, figures that it...
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University deprived lecturer of her 'legs'
A lecturer at the University of Hull was awarded damages this week for "unnecessary stress" caused by her employer's "total lack of understanding of her disability". Joyce Field uses an electronic...
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If Sharon Stone does it, so will I
Hollywood's smoking stars are being copied by America's college youth. Jon Marcus reports from Boston United States public health officials have blamed a dramatic increase in the number of college...
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World watch
Malan Marnersdottir has become the first woman rector of the University of the Faroe Islands. The University of the Faroe Islands has faculties in Faroese language and literature, history, society,...
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World watch
Israel's university students have ended their 44-day nationwide strike and returned to classes last week, a week before the semester was due to be cancelled. Student representatives, who failed to...