Ice age overdue, says vulcanologist
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham. A volcanic eruption powerful enough to trigger another ice age is long overdue, a...
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Payoff for do-gooders
As Volunteers Week gets under way, Alison Utley looks at the personal benefits of helping others. PREPARING an attention-grabbing CV is often the most difficult obstacle facing students applying for...
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Exploring pathways in the east
THE conventional view that land, capital and labour provide the keys to economic development has been augmented by economic theories which stress that updated knowledge and skills through education...
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New life in e-books
Academics cannot get their books published. Is electronic publishing the answer? asks Robert Darnton Are scholarly monographs -learned treatises on specific subjects - in danger of extinction,...
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Moscow centre for British skills
Links between universities in Britain and the countries of the former Soviet Union are to be boosted through a Pounds 4.5 million project over three years designed to cement key educational and...
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Clean air, hazy vision
Smog Alert
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Prayers for today
Journal of Contemporary Religion (three times a year)
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Across the social-ecological divide
Linking Social and Ecological Systems
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Family fortunes of Bronze Age mint
The East in the West
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Boris's brutal little war
Chechnya
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Upholders of the five K's
Sikhism
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Tubercular alarm bells
Aisling Irwin reports on the Tuberculosis 2000 conference at the Royal Society of Medicine. The growing scourge of tuberculosis, could be eliminated worldwide if doctors and governments were to act...
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Why it's sayonara, Japan
Trisha Walker looks at why more and more Japanese students are choosing to study abroad Although the Japanese have been going abroad to study since the first century AD, it is only since the mid-...
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Get the CVs right first, EU trainers told
The European Union must guard against being over-ambitious in its plans to help reform vocational education and training in the former Eastern bloc. The warning came from Anne Jones, professor of...
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High hopes dashed at Summit
Summit II - Earth Climate