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Topic: Academia (page 15)

Tears of a clone: Scientists sue to stake a claim on their multi-million dollar idea.

Are you an incomplete? Exploring the boon and bane of every college student.

Why knot? String theorists gather to find an explanation for gravity

Douglas Merrill

No sweat: Anti-sweatshop activists can handle the media, but can it handle itself?

Machine dreams: Postmodern theorists' obsession with the disappearing body

Virginia Eubanks

Ivory Tower: Campus of blood: Nigeria's mysterious on-campus cults terrorize the student body

Thin air, thin ice: Astronomers, environmentalists and native Hawaiians fight over a 14,000-foot peak

Ivory Tower: Silver scream: Here's your coffee -- would you care to read my screenplay?

Ivory Tower: Dark-eyed and down with the cause: but that didn't make her"of color".

Emily Wise Miller

Ivory Tower: T&A paid for my B.A.: Stripping my way through college beat the hell out of Starbuck's

Literature's battleground: Has the university beaten real readers over the border?

Where protest can kill you: In Iran, dissident students face death

I majored in surfing. Really.

Alien studies: Is it time to take little green men more seriously?

SAT skirmish: Mismeasurement of morons?

Michael Scott Moore

Tyranny of the lecturn: What they never teach professors about teaching

Sherryl Kleinman

Baby-killing philosophers! What the public doesn't understand about Princeton's Peter Singer

Wither success? When leaving academia to write the great American novel turns ugly

Christine Kenneally

Promotional intelligence: How a journalist distorted a scholarly idea -- and ended up a CEO.

Annie Murphy Paul

Slaughterhouse Lit: J.M. Coetzees animal-rights tract, "The Lives of Animals," won't convince anyone that meat is murder

Douglas Cruickshank

Garbage picking 101: I was a Seven Sisters Dumpster diver

Gillian Andrews

A very literary bear: Why shouldn't Winnie-the-Pooh be on the UC-Berkeley reading list?

Ivory Tower: In "The Culture of Fear," Barry Glassner explains what America really should be afraid of

Did toxic drinking water kill the children at Columbine High?

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