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The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution will Change Our Lives, by Frances Cairncross.
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During two months, in 1951, Cairncross turned over 1, 339 pages some of them important enough to be reviewed by Stalin.
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Those quibbles aside, Frances Cairncross deserves her generous lead in the voting, for having taken a strong position and making it into an even stronger one.
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"A country that can understand and take part in the arguments that we're going to have about climate change in the coming years needs to be well-educated about science, " said Cairncross, speaking to reporters at the launch of the BA festival.
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Even after the many books dealing with the Cambridge Five Burgess, Maclean, Blunt, Cairncross, and Philby it is still chilling to read of Guy Burgess's apparent offer to murder a Welsh academic who was capable of exposing him, or to contemplate the volume of secret material turned over to the Soviets.
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