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REPORTS FROM THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Is genetic modification of crops the hope for the future or a sure-fire route to bankruptcy? The issue was debated at this week's...
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Napoleon's Persian 'passade'
Napoleon and Persia
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The appearance of incoherence
Contemporary Higher Education - Volume Five - Contemporary Higher Education - Volume Four - Contemporary Higher Education - Volume Six - Contemporary Higher Education - Volume Two - Contemporary...
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Stylish theory kinda guy
Worldly Wise: 13. Economist Paul Krugman is pugnacious, contrary - and often right. He forecast East Asia's crisis and he has a controversial prescription. Huw Richards reports Economist Paul Krugman...
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A valuable source, bar the odd dig
A Dictionary of Archaeology
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Asian forces alter the status quo
The Global Competitiveness of the Asian Firm
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V-cs go on election offensive for youth
AUSTRALIAN vice-chancellors are mounting a big publicity campaign for the October 3 general election to get voters' backing for a bigger universities' budget. The AVCC said it would be advertising in...
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Waseda hunts for graduates
Waseda University, one of Japan's oldest and most prestigious private institutions, has applied to the ministry of education in Tokyo for permission to open a new graduate school. The school will...
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Robust Nile fish to aid sick salmon
The observation by fish farmers that some fish families are more resistant to disease than others is to be exploited by researchers at Stirling University. Randolph Richards, John Sargent and Brendan...
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White man who speaks in many dark tongues
Nottingham-born Bob Dixon speaks five Aboriginal languages - just 245 to go. Julia Hinde reports There were probably 250 separate languages - each as different as French and German," explains Bob...
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Pacific perspectives
Journal of Far Eastern Business:
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English in alien attack
Radhakrishnan Nayar (THES, June ) seems rather upset by Arundhati Roy, Ian Jack and Salman Rushdie because he suspects that English is an alien medium, and therefore quite incapable of representing...
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First-class degrees on wane
THE NUMBER of students gaining top honours is falling, according to statistics published today. But the male/female divide remains, with 7.7 per cent of male students who achieved degrees in 1995/96...
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Yen crisis prompts aid for students
THE Japanese government has produced an emergency package to help thousands of foreign students who are in financial difficulties because of the East Asian currency crisis. About 30 per cent of Japan...