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Cast-off drugs harm wildlife
Pharmaceuticals working their way into nature put plants and animals in danger. Steve Farrar reports Scientists are becoming concerned that pharmaceuticals may be slowly poisoning British wildlife. A...
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Asian insider's eye on a split-level society
Indonesian Destinies
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a work by a travel writer best known for his books about Asia: "I had been afraid of Russia ever...
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World Education Market 2003
"Advancing the Millennium of Learning" is the theme of this year's WEM conference and exhibition (Lisbon, Portugal: May 20-23, 2003), of which The THES is a media partner. Now in its fourth year, WEM...
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World Education Market 2003
"Advancing the Millennium of Learning" is the theme of this year's WEM conference and exhibition (Lisbon, Portugal: May 20-23, 2003), of which The THES is a media partner. Now in its fourth year, WEM...
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Cue the praying hands and ill-informed bow
Well-intentioned ignorance characterises British attitudes to foreign students, says Ayako Yoshino. About two years ago, while researching my PhD, I spent a few days at a provincial library. Every...
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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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Why an ideology received its marching orders...
'Fascist!' may survive as a term of abuse, but current neo-Nazi and clerical thuggery cannot disguise the fact that fascism is dead, says Michael Mann. In the early 20th century, fascism dominated...
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Commission encourages international solidarity when utilizing exotic plants
Brussels, 7 January 2004 When an EU company uses exotic plants like Aloe Vera for producing cosmetics it should share the benefits of this use with the country where the plant came from. This is the...
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Commission encourages international solidarity when utilizing exotic plants
Brussels, 7 January 2004 When an EU company uses exotic plants like Aloe Vera for producing cosmetics it should share the benefits of this use with the country where the plant came from. This is the...
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New interest in old powers
As the colonial past recedes, Asia is taking a fresh look at what Europe has to offer, writes Wang Gungwu. A shift in the way Asians study Europe has changed for the first time in a century....
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Romano Prodi: Research, innovation and competitiveness: the global challenge facing Europe, University of Genoa Opening of the 2003/04 Academic Year Genoa, 9 January 2004
Genoa, 9 January 2004 Mr Vice-Chancellor, Distinguished visitors, Professors, Ladies and gentlemen, Dear students, 2004 is a special year for Europe, as it is for Genoa. This year Genoa is the...
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Romano Prodi: Research, innovation and competitiveness: the global challenge facing Europe, University of Genoa Opening of the 2003/04 Academic Year Genoa, 9 January 2004
Genoa, 9 January 2004 Mr Vice-Chancellor, Distinguished visitors, Professors, Ladies and gentlemen, Dear students, 2004 is a special year for Europe, as it is for Genoa. This year Genoa is the...
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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...