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'Cleft palate made me who I am'
THE birth of a child is a joyous moment. But one in every 700 births will result in a child born with a cleft lip or palate...or both. For many, the extent of their child’s facial deformity will be unknown until their birth. That
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Museum's 'Fourth Plinth's reveals eccentric heirlooms
ECCENTRIC artwork and unusual heirlooms exhibited on a ‘fourth plinth’ have been winning admiring and puzzled glances at an Oxford University museum. On August 1, curators at the Museum of the History of Science in Broad Street asked the public to dig
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A textbook holiday in Le Mans
“AND that, in a nutshell, is the problem with France.” My classmates and I all nod. It is 1981 and we are in a geography lesson. We are being taught about the economies of Western Europe and – with no little relish – our teacher is explaining “just why
