Next Year Marks the EU’s 50th Anniversary of the TreatyA. After a period of introversion and stunned self-disbelief, continental European governments will recover their enthusiasm for pan-European i
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Talc PowderA Peter Brigg discovers how talc from Luzenac’s Trimouns in France find its way into food and agricultural products - from chewing gum to olive oil. High in the French Pyrenees, some 1,70
Antarctica-in from the cold?A A little over a century ago, men of the ilk of Scott, Shackleton and Mawson battled against Antarctica’s blizzards, cold and deprivation. In the name of Empire and in a
Paper or Computer?A Computer technology was supposed to replace paper. But that hasn’t happened. Every country in the Western world uses more paper today, on a per-capita basis, than it did ten year
Thanks to modern remote-sensing techniques, a ruined city in Turkey is slowly revealing itself as one of the greatest and most mysterious cities of the ancient world. Sally Palmer uncovers more.AThe l
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