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First state school alumnus heads Oxford college The first alumnus of a comprehensive school to head an Oxford college has taken up his post. Andrew Dilnot, 42, former director of the Institute of...
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When is a call for alms a call to arms?
Muslim charities provide extensive humanitarian aid but, writes Jonathan Benthall, critics accuse some of straying into terrorist territory. Birmingham-based Islamic Relief was one of the few aid...
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U21 goes online just as market tumbles
An online university was created last week by Universitas 21, the global consortium of 18 research-intensive universities, and Thomson Learning. The launch comes in the midst of a downturn in world...
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Odyssey of an Asian auteur
Lester James Peries
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Men without a mission make poor soldiers
The drive towards war on Iraq appears unstoppable, but it's not too late to pause to reflect on the justice of the fight - a king once halted a war so his leading thinkers could consider the very...
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Tigers taken to task
Unintended Consequences - The Trouble with Tigers
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Monday: a science lecture at Stanford. Tuesday: Japan. Wednesday: Hong Kong for an honorary degree...
'Back to Japan for more engagements and a lecture on Saturday. Monday: back to the UK for funding council meetings and then off to Poland for two lectures. Today, Wednesday, is the first time I have...
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Fraunhofer Gesellschaft outlines desire to help establish ERA
Brussels, 11 April 2002 Speaking to a Brussels audience on 10 April, President of the German research organisation the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Professor Hans-Jürgen...
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V-cs fear anti-Asian backlash
AUSTRALIAN vice-chancellors fear an anti-Asian immigration party's success in a Queensland state election could damage their overseas student recruiting drives and are trying to limit the damage. The...
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Soaring Deccan, circular Baghdad
The New Cambridge History of India, Part Seven - Islamic Art and Architecture
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The Trini Trinity is found on de line
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Shadows of days gone by
A day of total luna-see: * Records of eclipses can be found in the ancient histories of Babylon, East Asia, Europe and Arabia. * The oldest report of a total eclipse is dated July 17, 709BC. * A...
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Strong case of cultural indigestion
Food and Love
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Clothing firm taken to the cleaners
The Ivy League group of American universities has won a trademark dispute with a New Zealand company over the use of the term for a line of clothing. In January, Patent Office New Zealand ruled that...