A right to be Mr and Mrs
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that a British transsexual can marry. Adam James spoke to Stephen Whittle, the lecturer fighting for UK transsexual rights Transsexual people have...
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that a British transsexual can marry. Adam James spoke to Stephen Whittle, the lecturer fighting for UK transsexual rights Transsexual people have...
As the working week gets shorter, work-related stress appears to be on the rise. David Wainwright and Michael Calnan ask why. In February, an appeal court ruling overturned compensation payments of...
Brussels, 7 April 2003 Executive summary Background: Stem cell research is one of the promising areas of biotechnology, which offers the prospect of developing new methods to repair or replace...
When publishing findings, many researchers tend to omit some of the more pertinent facts, reports Stephen Phillips. A poll published this week of 1,400 science and biomedical journals has renewed US...
Bush and Gore spoke Spanish to woo the US's largest immigrant community. Clare Mar-Molinero explains why. Something is happening to Spanish. The number of people speaking it is growing and, more...
Brussels, 20 February 2002 Proposal for a Council Regulation on the conservation, characterisation, collection and utilisation of genetic resources in agriculture and amending Regulation (EC) No 1258...
A Companion to the City
THES reporters talk to four academics who are candidates in the general election. Robert Collinson Law lecturer Robert Collinson believes he is on track to reverse the thumping 18 per cent swing from...
Britain is the world's second largest arms exporter. Tim Garden explores the murky underside of an industry that employs 400,000 people. Many British manufacturing industries have declined or...
Determined lobbying has led the National Audit Office to turn the spotlight on Hull University's beleaguered business school. Phil Baty reviews the allegations of management school mismanagement The...
As biographer to Gore Vidal, Fred Kaplan not only found himself conversing with giants of film and literature, but also in a legal spat with Vidal himself. Jennifer Wallace reports Fred Kaplan seems...
The French school of contemporary history is in danger of falling behind those of other countries if major disparities over researchers' access to national archives continue. The warning comes in a...
Peace and War
Are genetically modified foods safe? Derek Burke, a former regulator, discusses the evidence and the risks Genetically modified foods have been entering British supermarkets over the past year. The...
Robin Yeates welcomes the latest developments in library information systems but calls for closer collaboration between librarian and user to fulfil demands Libraries may be on the brink of a...