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Portrait of a doomed Sea
Paris, 28 Jul 2003 Earth's youngest desert is shown in this July MERIS satellite image of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, over the last 40 years the Aral Sea...
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Jobwatch: reheat your career
As Europe faces the chill of winter, academics may warm to a job in the statistical sciences department at the University of Cape Town, or a post as halls administrator in the West Indies, writes...
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Jobwatch: reheat your career
As Europe faces the chill of winter, academics may warm to a job in the statistical sciences department at the University of Cape Town, or a post as halls administrator in the West Indies, writes...
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The paradigms of people power
The global anticapitalist movement links millions of ordinary people worldwide and has no historical precedent. So why are so few anthropologists involved? asks Nancy Lindisfarne. The third European...
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Will plague and pox be the weapons of choice in future?
Lessons from the Soviet biological weapons programme are relevant to today's efforts to prevent the offensive use of disease, says John Hart The threat of biological warfare has been much debated...
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The world stops with Europe
Vinita Damodaran and Richard Grove detect a worrying move towards Eurocentrism When visitors walk into the London headquarters of the British Academy the first thing they see is a fine bust of...
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The world stops with Europe
Vinita Damodaran and Richard Grove detect a worrying move towards Eurocentrism When visitors walk into the London headquarters of the British Academy the first thing they see is a fine bust of...
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From the outside looking in
India Abroad
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From the outside looking in
India Abroad
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New boss ready to rattle Manchester
The preoccupation with variable tuition fees is a damaging distraction to the wider debate over the future of higher education, according to the incoming president of the newly expanded Manchester...
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Can't stem progress
The UK could profit from the US' politicking with basic biomedical research, says Roger Pedersen If you've seen the movie The Graduate, you'll remember the scene in which the financier walks over to...
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Could the sun set in the East?
Talk of 'miracles' in the hot house economies of the Far East is inflated, argues Gerald Segal. Indeed, these 'Tigers' may soon be having trouble paying for pensions There is something about an...
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IAA's vision for the next steps in exploring deep space
Paris, 13 Jul 2004 The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) announces the release of its cosmic study, 'The Next Steps In Exploring Deep Space', a vision for the scientific exploration of...
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Intellectual property rights are key for competitiveness in Europe, says European business
Brussels, 12 Mar 2004 'Walk the talk' was the message sent to politicians at the European Business Summit taking place in Brussels on 11 March. If European leaders want a competitive Europe, they...