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New Scientist - 02 February 2008
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NEWS
This Week
Upfront
60 Seconds
In Brief
TECHNOLOGY
FEATURES
  • Are political leanings all in the genes?Premium
    Trying to persuade others to your way of thinking may be futile – political positions could be substantially determined by biology, says Jim Giles
  • Super-efficient car to green up the highwayPremium
    Creating a car capable of 100 miles per gallon is not as difficult as you might think. Is this the end of the road for the gas guzzler?
  • Meteorites: How big is safe?Premium
    A meteorite impact in Peru raises disturbing questions about our vulnerability to such threats from space – and sheds light on controversial impacts in human history
  • How to grow a glacierPremium
    The ancient skill of glacier growing is said to guarantee year-round water for mountain villages. Ed Douglas is intrigued
OPINION
REGULARS
Editorial
Editorial: UK physics cuts bite deepPremium Editorial: Getting ready for same-sex reproductionPremium
Comment and Analysis
Comment: Let us celebrate DarwinPremium
Interview
Interview: The Indiana Jones of neurologyPremium
Perspectives
Perspectives: The changing face of terrorismPremium
Bookends
Review: Irreligion by John Allen Paulos; Review: What Bugged the Dinosaurs? by George Poinar Jr. and Roberta Poinar;
Letters
Beast bugging; Reclaim the streets; Traffic pickle; Hidden threat; Misleading maths; Drug not banned; Lucid rules; One-world theory; Smoking gun; All shall have nouns; Gets whose goat?; Spy plane problems; For the record;
Web Letters
Tata, cars; Spellchucker; Moths of war; Yodel-ay-Euskara!;
Feedback
Feedback
Last Word Answers
Sand islands; Flights of fancy;
Last Word Questions
Twisted logic;
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