24 FEBRUARY 1990, page 39

Television

How time flies... Wendy Cope S ome scientists did an experiment. They put an atomic clock in a jet plane and sent it round the world. They kept an identical clock in the......

High Life

Frank, fearless and fined Taki n Armenian philosopher once com- pared Austria to an opera performed by the understudies. If that's the case, then Greece is like a police station......

Sale-rooms

Going for the bronzes Peter Watson Y u could be forgiven for thinking that mad cow disease has afflicted the art market. Herds of collectors, awash in milk and honey, lock horns......