Perfection in pursuit of a confection
The True History of Chocolate
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Century of heroes in clime of cholera
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ WELLCOME TRUST ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF TROPICAL DISEASES Edited by F. E. G. Cox Wellcome Trust, 452pp, Pounds 35.00 ISBN - 1869835 86 7 As a scientific speciality, tropical medicine is barely 100...
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Too few loaves, hardly any fishes
More people, higher expectations and dwindling food stocks all add up to a disaster we will be unable to ignore. Martin Ince reports Global warming has caused a worldwide argument between the merely...
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Breathing fire at the west
The Dragon, the Lion and the Eagle:
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The petulant, the devious and the truly awful
Uncertain Partners
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Virtually without foundation
Virtual Archaeology
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Keep your huddled masses
'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,' beseeches the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. It is a welcome many in the US would not extend to today's immigrants, whom they see as too...
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The colour purpose
Race - The Meaning of Race
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Visions of a synchronised continent
This week's Royal Society 'Science in Society' meeting, Science Funding: The European Dimension, covered both national and EU-wide issues. You can hear it all at É«ºÐÖ±²¥SIS, The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S Internet Service (...
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Fanfare for common good
As their role becomes more complex and resources more scarce, universities need to forge stronger links, says Michael Gibbons. É«ºÐÖ±²¥ COMMONWEALTH is undergoing a period of considerable change. The...
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Family of man dividedover in-laws
Did modern humansevolve from Neanderthals or wipe them out? Olga Wojtas sifts the latest archaeological evidence For almost the whole of this century, there has been a heated scientific debate about...
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Tashkent masterminds
Nearly three years ago a group of European Union specialists came to Uzbekistan in former Soviet Central Asia to launch a programme to train teachers of business management. The aim was to set in...
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Peeping in people's houses
Encyclopedia of the Vernacular Architecture of the World
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A moderniser who couldn't modernise
As new Labour prepares for its first post-election conference the lives of two old Labourites are to be published. Brian Brivati to Kenneth Morgan about Jim Callaghan Being a vice chancellor was...
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Immaterial observations
The Spiritual Quest