Vova Galchenko, one of the world’s best jugglers, approaches his craft like an athlete.
No Road Map for the Democrats as Race Nears End
New York Times - By ADAM NAGOURNEY, CARL HULSE and JEFF ZELENY The most fiery and exhausting presidential primary campaign in at least a generation is coming to an end, with Senator Barack Obama likely to wheeze over the finish line and claim the Democratic nomination ...
Private school chief: some state pupils are unteachable Fury as former admiral talks of poor leadership and ignorant parents
State schools 'struggle with bullies' Teachers are having difficulty coping with the behaviour of children who are "out of control" and criticism of ignorant parents, a leader of Britain's private schools said.
Cameron to let companies run schools Private companies would be allowed to take over state schools under radical Conservative plans.
Learn by brain download Lessons to become pointless: schools chief.
Chinese 'stole data' from US laptop Washington accuses Chinese officials of secretly copying files during Beijing visit by American trade secretary.
The daily grind Pepper is ubiquitous but rarely takes culinary centre-stage, says Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Broad-bean minded Yotam Ottolenghi prepares artichokes with broad beans and lemon
The battle of the bottle: brewing dynasties fight to be king of beers All the bar talk is of who will take over Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Budweiser

Why don't we do it in the lab?
When Mary Roach heard about the latest advances in the study of sex, she decided to persuade her husband to volunteer ...
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Authors rebel against age ranges on books
May 30: The controversy over plans to put recommended age ranges on the covers of children's books ignited at the Hay festival yesterday
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Trial-and-error evolution
According to Gary Marcus's Kluge our brains are an engineering nightmare, says Steven Rose
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Master builders
Lisa Jardine considers Leo Hollis's group biography centred on Wren's great cathedral, The Phoenix
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One foot in Eden
Jay Parini welcomes a stringent new selection of Edwin Muir's dreamlike verse in Selected Poems
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Cyberspaced out
What will future minds be like? Jane O'Grady is not convinced by Susan Greenfield's predictions in ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century
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