World awaits answer to $400m gene question
Researchers around the world are set to announce on Monday the completion of 90 per cent of one of the most exciting projects in the history of science: the sequencing of the human genome. Costing...
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Five-year plan is a ray of light
A programme investigating rain forest dynamics has won new funding. Wendy Barnaby reports A new paradigm in tropical ecology research is emerging from work in Southeast Asia, and is so successful it...
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Dazzling tail lights
There is a new Moon on Tuesday, so the sky should be at its darkest. That will be perfect for viewing one of the most dazzling phenomena the heavens can offer - if it turns up. At about 10pm that...
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Shaping the land that has shaped us
Remaking the Landscape
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Locked in free market's embrace
India Unbound
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Still want sun, sand and sex on the beach?
In the last of our series on tourism, Chris Ryan considers how academic studies of sex tourism can help sex workers gain human rights and promote responsible travelling Sex tourism as a topic of...
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Posing secular questions for certain zealots
Jihad - Jihad - The Shade of Swords - Inside Al-Qaeda - The Clash of Fundamentalisms
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Exiled son who saved the state
The Generalissimo's Son
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Divergent views of a Chinese sage
An Introduction to Confucianism . First Edition
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We will undermine the principle of equality'
Will it deliver designer babies to the wealthy or eradicate disease among the poor? Stephen Phillips ponders biotechnology's potential to shape our future, Francis Fukuyama (below, left) urges...
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AUST quality defended
Whistleblowers was critical of the Asian University of Science and Technology and its association with Imperial College (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, February 25). I am proud to have been the founding dean of engineering...
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Beaten, banged up but still unbowed
Pramoedya Ananta Toer has endured prison and had his books banned. But at 75, international recognition has finally beckoned. C. W. Watson reports. Book burnings and raids on libraries have been the...
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Out of India
Contemporary South Asia (three times a year) - South Asia Research (two issues a year)
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Asian crisis to cost Pounds 300m
British universities are redirecting their overseas recruitment efforts as they prepare for a collapse in their Asian Tigers market. Institutions in the United Kingdom stand to lose over Pounds 300...
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US schools feel the pinch
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia Jae Lee is studying international relations at Boston University. But the 20-year-old South Korean student...