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A survey at Indiana's Purdue University says it all about the needs of the modern American student. A sample of 6,000 college rooms found 3,000 answering machines, more than 5,000 televisions, close...
A survey at Indiana's Purdue University says it all about the needs of the modern American student. A sample of 6,000 college rooms found 3,000 answering machines, more than 5,000 televisions, close...
Huw Richards reports from the American Political Studies Association's conference in Chicago. President Clinton has problems that even Britain's beleaguered John Major never dreamt of as he attempts...
Huw Richards reports from the American Political Studies Association's conference in Chicago. Conventional wisdom about the history of party politics in the United States is largely based on the...
Huw Richards reports from the American Political Studies Association's conference in Chicago. The United States Supreme Court, guardians of the country's constitution, does respond to external...
Kay Davies, the leading geneticist, yesterday called for a national debate on the implications of genetic testing for the individual and society. Launching a Ciba Foundation discussion on the issue...
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. The study of top sports performers has a valuable role to play in research into...
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. Nature may operate more like a hippie commune than a Darwinian free market in some...
It was once assumed that molten granite took thousands or even millions of years to travel from its source deep within the earth to just below the surface. But this movement could take place over a...
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. By the end of the century the north-east of England should have a network of...
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. A jellyfish gene has been transplanted into a plant to make it glow when it is...
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. Smokers could avoid getting cancer by taking a chemical that zaps the carcinogens...
Union leaders might find it hard to believe, but the potentially precarious state of their organisations is a major worry for personnel chiefs in higher education. The implications of dwindling union...
(Photograph) - Go-getter: an electric car designed by engineers at the University of Wales, Cardiff, made its racing debut at Britain's first electric vehicle rally earlier this month. The car came...
More than half of Europe's high-flying graduates want to work for a multinational company - but they do not want a foreign boss. The main attractions of multinationals include working in foreign...
"Is economic history in decline?" Like all the best academic conference session titles it invited the response "It all depends what you mean by . .." Any such debate tends to have hints of the...