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Topic: Academia (page 15)

No cures please, we're normal: The defeatist dogma of disability studies

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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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

Douglas Cruickshank

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

Garbage picking 101: I was a Seven Sisters Dumpster diver

Gillian Andrews

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

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