Ill-starred treks
A spate of high-profile expedition disasters has unleashed a wave of rule-tightening across campuses and is endangering the future of a brave tradition. Aisling Irwin reports They were four blithe...
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The sound in the symbol
The World's Writing Systems - The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems - The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System
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Sound facts and flimsy covers
International Book Publishing
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British PhDs runners up in cost league
Fees charged by United Kingdom universities for foreign students undertaking postgraduate courses tend to be higher than those of the UK's main competitors in Asia, according to an international...
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Open season on the child crippler
A Summer Plague
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The influence of valence
Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry II: A Review of the Literature 1982-94. Editors-in-chief: Edward W. Abel, F. Gordon A. Stone and Geoffrey Wilkinson. Pergamon Press. ?2,795.00 (14 volumes)....
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The influence of valence
Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry II
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Dusk heralds the night
Writer Taslima Nasreen, who fled Bangladesh for the West after fundamentalists threatened to put her to death for her views on the Koran, asks if we are returning to an age of barbarism. We hear, we...
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Balance of power
Source: Getty There seems little doubt that Asia¡¯s star is rising, but reports of its imminent academic hegemony are greatly exaggerated, argues Miguel Lim. ¡°The 21st century will be the Asian...
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Continental drift
Migration - Nation and Migration - Migration and Identity - Desh Pardesh
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In search of Adam
Ancestral Passions
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Cutting costs at a stroke abroad
Frank Booty investigates how Europe's heritage is being digitised in Asia and the Caribbean. What have Euromoney magazine, HMSO publications, The Bible in English, Diploma of Achievement student book...
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Foresight study puts biology in top place
Biology will be the dominant science of the 21st century and Britain should commit itself to a big drive in research and exploitation of areas such as ageing and disabling degenerative diseases, the...
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Software founders in postmodern age
Software has become too complex and even accidentally killed people. The way ahead is to produce simpler, user-friendly technology, argues Patrick Hall. I have practised as a software engineer for...
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Terra infirma
A royal commission has just concluded that we do not know much about the ground beneath our feet. Kam Patel unearths some disturbing facts about soil, and three experts explain why its degradation...