You say 'terrorist', I say God-fearing Muslim
As power is handed over in Iraq, academics assess the impact of US foreign policy at home and abroad. Whatever America's intentions in the Middle East, most of the Arab world views the superpower as...
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Utopia: where pure politicians hand out free money
The Age of Consent
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Big History Qs: A perversion of the human will for survival
Why do empires rise? Richard Drayton asks what motivates one nation to subordinate and impose its value system on others All empires are expressions of inequality hidden behind a mask of community....
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It came from the East: the greatest gift of the wise men
Paper before Print
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Melbourne
The first Unesco chair in cultural heritage studies in the Asia Pacific region has been created at Deakin University in Melbourne. A new centre will cooperate with universities in three Indochinese...
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New York
Human Rights Watch this month accused the government of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic of trying to silence political opposition by harassing the student-based Otpor (Resistance) movement....
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'I've gone places others haven't'
Olga Wojtas talks to the Scots academic recently freed from an Indonesian jail. Lesley McCulloch, the Scots-born academic released from an Indonesian jail earlier this month, could have been free in...
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Industrial technologies - Establishing a strategic research agenda for nanoelectronics
Brussels, 14 Jul 2004 Large-scale research funding is crucial to ease the transition from micro- to nanoelectronics, according to a report from leading industrial and research organisations....
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Lord Sainsbury, the science minister, has opened the Genetic Therapies Centre at Imperial College, London. Mumbai (Bombay) in India will house the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Vietnam to get first foreign university
Work is about to start on Vietnam's first foreign-owned university after the Asia Development Bank agreed to pay $7.5 million (£5.3 million) towards the project. The university is being established...
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Beautiful sounds from foul singers
Bats may be ugly and smelly but, Daniel Bennett says, they sound wonderful. Just after dusk we were on a canoe in the Mozambique Bay. Hundreds of bats were flying over the sea and the sound was...
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Easy links to significant others
Shamanism
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Malaysian OU opts for Heriot-Watt expertise
Tan Sri Abdullah Sanusi, president of the fledgling Malaysian Open University, has finalised an e-learning deal with Heriot-Watt University to give new Malaysian students access to Heriot-Watt's...
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Today's news
Cost of university fees is 'two pints of beer a week' Graduates starting off on a salary of £18,000 a year in London would only have to give up two pints of beer a week to repay their top-up fees,...
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No victory in the peace to end peace
The Origins of World War I - Castles of Steel - The Great War - The First World War - Trench Art