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UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Charities. Dr J. Franklin, Pounds 66,159 from West Midlands Health (hormone receptor expression and function in human pituitary tumours); Drs Nicholl and Ramsden, Professor A...
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Hear, hear and over there
Samuel Beer discerns the Americanisation of British politics and the decline of party government. Recently a British journalist recalled that Baroness Thatcher had once said that it would be a great...
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Beveridge retreaded
Last week in Prague, at a meeting organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, experts from the World Bank and the London c states to policy makers from 15 central and eastern...
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On a clear day you can see to the multiplex
The citizens of Oxford may soon see new bingo halls, bowling alleys and car parks among their dreaming spires. Lucy Hodges asks whether colleges keen to profit from their land are responsible. Oxford...
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NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY. Research contracts: Professor C. Ferguson, Pounds 80,628 from the DoE (sampling strategies); Dr G. Sanders, Pounds 257,700 from the DoE (effect of air pollution on crops...
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Catching the wave of opportunity
The Council for Industry and Higher Education publishes its advice to the Shephard review today. Patrick Coldstream summarises its report. More young people than ever before now believe that it is...
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Sawing off the limbs we are standing on
World Resources 1994-1995 - People and the Environment: - The World at the Crossroads - The Gnat is Older than Man - Blueprint Three - Development and Environment: - The Ecology of Commerce
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Power plays and sister acts
David Walker talks to Partha Dasgupta (right), the Cambridge economist who has focused on the third world's economic dynamos: women. Squatting; cooking; suckling; spinning; water-carrying; herding;...
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The man who got things done
Lenin - Lenin
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Search for a pharmacy set which works
David Mottram asks if there is a formula for computer-assisted learning in pharmacology that works for both student and teacher. Undergraduate pharmacy degree courses encompass a wide range of...
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So what do you do, Mr Major?
As John Major resumes normal life at No 10, Peter Hennessy helpfully shows how the function of premiership has changed since the 1940s. This is a very odd moment to be discussing the power of the...
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Selfish rebels in a parliament of genes
The Major Transitions in Evolution
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Gambling on visions
As life becomes more complex, understanding its new risks requires greater ingenuity. Eva Pascoe explains. Suddenly, people have to deal with new, difficult problems such as DNA-based testing for...
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Expert help for angst
At this moment in German history no one is certain whether the new (and in all likelihood, last) government led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl will survive the four years until our next elections. The...
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The sages of reason
Critical Theory - Critical Theory and the Novel - Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists