November - 1996 Articles
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Clinics admit they take sperm from dead men
30 November 1996
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Science : Growth blocker stops spinal pain at source
30 November 1996
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Science : Polar lakes watered down by snow
30 November 1996
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Science : Toothy sparkler unearthed in diamond mine
30 November 1996
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Science : Snakes slithered up from the sea
30 November 1996
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Junk food ads target the young
30 November 1996
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Strictly between you, me and Uncle Sam
30 November 1996
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Villagers slam 'Pill for elephants'
30 November 1996
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Satellite sees where the wind blows
30 November 1996
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Science : The odd thing about carbon . . .
30 November 1996
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Netropolitan :
30 November 1996
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Technology : For video-on-demand, move to Hull
30 November 1996
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Technology : Crash diet opens Windows to hand-held PCs
30 November 1996
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Patents : What's in a name?
30 November 1996
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Science : Sex hormone softens the pain
30 November 1996
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Science : Bees play tricks with the light to see at night
30 November 1996
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Technology : Finishing touch for the bionic arm
30 November 1996
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Technology : Japan's winter roads are piping hot
30 November 1996
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Technology : Fermenting faster pints
30 November 1996
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Chernobyl handout
30 November 1996
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Prostate gene
30 November 1996
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Darned good science, but is it any use?
30 November 1996
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Tracks in the snow spell hope for Siberian tiger
30 November 1996
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Danger lurks under the knife
30 November 1996
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Tuna trounces the town mouse
30 November 1996
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Cancer specialists join the rat race
30 November 1996
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Editorial : Where wise men fear to tread - NEVER argue with a fool in public—people might not be able to tell the difference. Such advice would surely be wasted on Ian Plimer, the Australian geologist who has sold his home to take a prominent creati
30 November 1996
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Editorial : Time to come clean on radiation tests - SHOCK reports that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been carrying out secret radiation experiments on humans for the past forty years have dominated the British media this week.
30 November 1996
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Creationism in the dock
30 November 1996
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Science : Why it all sounds like rhubarb in the end
30 November 1996
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Science : Adoring mums raise calmer pups
30 November 1996
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Ozone optimism
30 November 1996
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Upping the anti
30 November 1996
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Earth Centre's woes
30 November 1996
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HRT for dementia
30 November 1996
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Radiation damages
30 November 1996
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Bridge over troubled waters - India and Bangladesh have quarrelled over rights to water from the Ganges for more than two decades. Can they finally agree a deal that would benefit millions?
30 November 1996
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Science : Will a sea change turn up the heat?
30 November 1996
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Science : You must remember Zzzzz...
30 November 1996
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Netropolitan :
30 November 1996
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Technology : Nuclear catalyst goes for cool burn
30 November 1996
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The Last Word
30 November 1996
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AustralAsian : Resource project breaks down Indonesian barriers - Bob Johnstone explores Australia's role in preserving its neighbour's biodiversity
30 November 1996
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Forum : Let's keep the genie in its bottle
30 November 1996
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Washington diary : Mudslinging and backpedalling -
Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill30 November 1996
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Review : Gardner's question time
30 November 1996
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Bestsellers : from Oxford
30 November 1996
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Review : Collected works
30 November 1996
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Forum : Silence of the experts -
Fred Pearce wonders why government advisers never admit they were wrong30 November 1996
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Feedback
30 November 1996
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Letters : . . .
30 November 1996
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Letters : Soviet practices
30 November 1996
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Letters : Europirates
30 November 1996
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Letters : Born to battle
30 November 1996
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Letters : . . .
30 November 1996
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Letters : Speaker speak
30 November 1996
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Letters : Particle particulars
30 November 1996
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Letters : Hells on Earth
30 November 1996
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Letters : Cognac clue
30 November 1996
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Review : Just for the record
30 November 1996
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Review : Bright sparks
30 November 1996
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No pain, more gain
30 November 1996
People often put up with the disabling symptoms of arthritis rather than suffer the side effects of anti-inflammatory drugs. Michael Judge reports on the hunt for less harmful alternatives
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Patents : Elixir of life
30 November 1996
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Patents : Bubbling under
30 November 1996
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Patents : Stolen moments
30 November 1996
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Patents : Shattering truth
30 November 1996
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Patents : Spitting fire
30 November 1996
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Patents : Cry for help
30 November 1996
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101 things to do with an old oil rig - Melt it down as scrap? Turn it into a casino? Slice it up and use the bits as oil tanks?
Fred Pearce sorts through Shell's options for disposing of Brent Spar30 November 1996
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Take a deep breath and blow
30 November 1996
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Think maths - Is mathematics the grand design for the Universe, or merely a figment of the human imagination, asks
Ian Stewart 30 November 1996
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Review : A look on the small side
30 November 1996
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Review : X-tensions
30 November 1996
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Review : Bon anniversaire
30 November 1996
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Review : Written in the sands
30 November 1996
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Review : Holy war
30 November 1996
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Review : Sex story
30 November 1996
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Review : Visible profit (2)
30 November 1996
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Review : Dial-up feature
30 November 1996
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Review : Popperama
30 November 1996
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Science : Flowers throw out the junk to make a better show
23 November 1996
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Science : Prehistoric toolmakers got off to an early start
23 November 1996
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Technology : Temporary trap for dangerous clots
23 November 1996
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Science : Why you light up when you're drunk
23 November 1996
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Motherly cockroaches suckle their young
23 November 1996
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The crying game
23 November 1996
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Bat woman dies
23 November 1996
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Irish sue Sellafield
23 November 1996
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Science : Choosy yeast knows left from right
23 November 1996
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Science : Keeping perfect pitch in the family
23 November 1996
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Science : Anticipating schizophrenia in twins
23 November 1996
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Technology : Pick-and-mix PC pulls itself together
23 November 1996
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Technology : Virtual war breaks out
23 November 1996
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Technology : Speedy relief for victims of cyanide poisoning
23 November 1996
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Technology : Weaving genes to make a warmer fibre
23 November 1996
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Racing to euphoria
23 November 1996
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Technology : Dial `W' for warning
23 November 1996
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Technology : For that shining smile . . . use a glowing toothbrush
23 November 1996
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Science : Old-timers may still shine brightly
23 November 1996
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Smokers' ruin
23 November 1996
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Midlife terrors
23 November 1996
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Out of their hands - The jury is still out on the Indian air crash, but pilot error is a major cause of over two-thirds of all accidents. Are crew training and cockpit technology pulling in opposite directions?
23 November 1996
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Smart helmets will confuse soldiers
23 November 1996
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Biowar checks hang in the balance
23 November 1996
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Indian red tape holds back vital flood warnings
23 November 1996
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Bureaucrats battle over plant genes
23 November 1996
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Deadly sprays worse than useless
23 November 1996
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Getting to the root of hunger
23 November 1996
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Editorial : A turf war with no winners - ANYONE interested in protecting the genetic resources of the world's crop plants must have been thoroughly confused last week.
23 November 1996
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Toxic sludge flows through the Andes
23 November 1996
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Europe's collapsing grain mountain fuels food scare
23 November 1996
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To feed the world, talk to the farmers
23 November 1996
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Sex secrets of the Pharaohs are all in the genes
23 November 1996
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Singapore's children walk off with academic gold
23 November 1996
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Junk e-mail `is not free speech'
23 November 1996
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Here's a drug to remember
23 November 1996
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Why time flies in old age
23 November 1996
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Priest sheds light on the secret world of drugs
23 November 1996
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Mustard gas found
23 November 1996
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HIV on the rise in inner-city Britain
23 November 1996
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Lost Mars probe casts doubt on Russia's space plans
23 November 1996
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Is there anybody out there?
23 November 1996
The view that life is widespread in the Milky Way is gaining ground, yet ET has so far proved elusive. New Scientist talks to an astronomer who thinks he knows why
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Letters : Rain and grain
23 November 1996
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Letters : Pencilled out
23 November 1996
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Letters : Bad times
23 November 1996
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Letters : The Pohl effect
23 November 1996
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Letters : Aeroflops
23 November 1996
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Letters : Conflict of interest
23 November 1996
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Letters : Less of the loaf
23 November 1996
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Letters : Patently public
23 November 1996
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The Last Word
23 November 1996
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Feedback
23 November 1996
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write of reply : Young eyes on ANZAAS
23 November 1996
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write of reply : . . .
23 November 1996
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Cellular factories
23 November 1996
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write of reply : Funding woes
23 November 1996
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Changing places :
23 November 1996
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Antipodes Science : Peter Doherty...downloaded
23 November 1996
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Research: in the field : Hooked on bream
23 November 1996
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Letters : . . .
23 November 1996
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Letters : Whether prediction
23 November 1996
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Letters : Insect aliens
23 November 1996
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Thistle diary : Netting a golden goose and famous last words - More comment from Westminster by
Tam Dalyell 23 November 1996
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Review : Quantum bull
23 November 1996
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Review : Special relationship
23 November 1996
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Review : Old friends
23 November 1996
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Review : Just singin' in the brain
23 November 1996
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A tank of the cold stuff - Hydrogen has long been touted as the fuel of the future. If German car makers are to be believed, that future is just a few years away, says
Rob Edwards 23 November 1996
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What goes up. . . - In 1998 NASA is planning the maiden flight of an experimental rocket-plane that must endure the intense heat of re-entry and take off again 24 hours after landing.
Ben Iannotta reports23 November 1996
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Technology : Bags bow out to airtight cardboard
23 November 1996
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Netropolitan :
23 November 1996
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Review : Visible profit?
23 November 1996
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Review : Skulduggery
23 November 1996
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Review : Engineering dreams
23 November 1996
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Forum : The hard and soft option
23 November 1996
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Forum : Testing the gender gap -
Kurt Kleiner takes a look at how the US attempts to sort out its brightest students23 November 1996
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Review : Slash and burn
23 November 1996
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Bestsellers : from Oxford
23 November 1996
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Review : Collected works
23 November 1996
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Review : Here comes the star
23 November 1996
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Review : Splat stories
23 November 1996
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Review : Illuminated Hawking
23 November 1996
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Quick start evens up the odds in digital TV race
16 November 1996
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Culprit found for stolen starlight
16 November 1996
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A good scrub in the sand keeps crab shells clean
16 November 1996
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Malaria reveals a chink in its armour
16 November 1996
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'Guardian of the genome' falls from grace
16 November 1996
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Erratic earthquakes keep forecasters on the hop
16 November 1996
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Minor op gives veteran new lease of life
16 November 1996
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Waste warning
16 November 1996
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Hole over Britain
16 November 1996
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Netropolitan
16 November 1996
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Netropolitan
16 November 1996
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Netropolitan
16 November 1996
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Young blood NEW LIFE
16 November 1996
Drugs that enable the body to produce fetal haemoglobin have revolutionised the lives of people with sickle-cell anaemia. Rosie Mestel explores a new wave of treatments for the disease
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How the parasite learnt to kill
16 November 1996
Bacteria and viruses that cause disease today may not always have done so. Some had virulence thrust upon them, as Phyllida Brown finds out
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Trails of destruction
16 November 1996
Spinning streams of air that trail behind large aircraft have all the ferocity of a hurricane. Taming these deadly vortices is a priority for aircraft designers and air traffic controllers. Justin Mullins reports
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Firefly enzyme will bring dirty food factories to light
16 November 1996
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Ashes to ashes, mould to mould
16 November 1996
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Beaten in spades
16 November 1996
Computers may be able to trounce grandmasters at chess, but you wouldn't want one as a bridge partner. Gabrielle Walker discovers why
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Doctors farm fish for insulin
16 November 1996
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New life for old fighters
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : One flew over
16 November 1996
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Caviar crisis
16 November 1996
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Hormones blamed for sex-change fish
16 November 1996
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Pegasus clings to its satellite cargo
16 November 1996
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Scottish court case could unravel the Web
16 November 1996
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Geologists in hot water as icecap springs a leak
16 November 1996
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Lofty lab frozen out of climate studies
16 November 1996
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Greedy patenting could starve poor of biotech promise
16 November 1996
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Speak, don't hold your peace
16 November 1996
EXPORTING genetic know-how to a regime that sanctions eugenics is about as morally wholesome as selling Semtex to countries that sanction terrorism. Yet this uncomfortable idea seems to have bypassed some people.
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Lost in the global village
16 November 1996
IN days of old, when land and kinship was all, Scotland's feuding clans hurled rocks and spilt blood. Now they go to court to protect their Web sites from invasion. The Shetland Times wants to prevent its arch rival the Shetland News (which
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'Red' genes get the green light
16 November 1996
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Pump up the volume
16 November 1996
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Did cataclysm 'jump-start' the Gulf Stream?
16 November 1996
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Plant blueprint
16 November 1996
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CJD cash plea
16 November 1996
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Nuclear meltdown
16 November 1996
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Plagued by noise
16 November 1996
The WHO is introducing tougher noise guidelines. But will anybody listen?
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Full fat milk may prevent common cancers
16 November 1996
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Rampant sex solves telephone traffic problem
16 November 1996
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Bat virus stalks fruit pickers
16 November 1996
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Mother Nature could break US clean air law
16 November 1996
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Chinese deal sparks eugenics protests
16 November 1996
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Correction
16 November 1996
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Tied but unfed
16 November 1996
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Antipodes : Motorists in a political haze
16 November 1996
Ian Lowe analyses a survey of car owners in New South Wales
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Guy Fawkes effect
16 November 1996
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League of their own
16 November 1996
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Reasonable question
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Animals please
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : What a floribunderful world
16 November 1996
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Thistle diary : Brickbats and sanctuaries for wildlife
16 November 1996
More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Knot right
16 November 1996
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Volcanic jam jar
16 November 1996
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Peculiar pest
16 November 1996
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Feedback
16 November 1996
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Road code
16 November 1996
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Porcine pranksters
16 November 1996
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16 November 1996
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Tongue-tied tech
16 November 1996
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Pens from heaven
16 November 1996
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Safe from quakes?
16 November 1996
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Inventing the future
16 November 1996
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The story so far …
16 November 1996
Bernard Dixon, a former editor of New Scientist, traces 40 years of the magazine's evolution
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Christmas books : Beware the hype
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : The curse of the spirit
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Reflections on self
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Magical mystery tour
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Mental mapping
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : All things bright
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Our fossil family album
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Survival of the hottest
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Final frontier
16 November 1996
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Bestsellers : from Oxford
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : What's on the box?
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Bald truth
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : The creepies …
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : … and the crawlies
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Confusing fact with fiction
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Big breath
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Born boneless
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Collected works
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Body bits
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Dynamic possibilities
16 November 1996
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Christmas books : Cooking up the past
16 November 1996
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Science : Sunshine sets the sea spinning
02 November 1996
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Science : Butterflies keep their bearings
02 November 1996
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Science : Baby sharks shed teeth in the womb
02 November 1996
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Science : Yes, it's your legs that stop you falling over
02 November 1996
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Technology : Blasting off on the cheap
02 November 1996
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Technology : Little tubes have more six-appeal
02 November 1996
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Technology : Look at the screen and say `aah'
02 November 1996
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Technology : Speeding up production lines in the nanoworld
02 November 1996
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Science : Odd orbit of a far-flung world
02 November 1996
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Fireball from the deepfreeze
02 November 1996
Early next year we could be in for a rare treat as Comet Hale-Bopp pays a visit from the outer reaches of the Solar System. Will it live up to the hype?
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Dirty secrets - Vaccines won't work unless some pretty crude ingredients are thrown into the brew. But what are they doing there?
Phyllida Brown finds out02 November 1996
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Review : Big issue
02 November 1996
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Review : Quantum ghosts get real
02 November 1996
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Software, who needs it?
02 November 1996
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Mouldering monuments
02 November 1996
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Technology : Wherever you are, foil will fix it
02 November 1996
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Netropolitan :
02 November 1996
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Netropolitan :
02 November 1996
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Technology : Tailor-made vaccine primes body's defences
02 November 1996
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Technology : Why it pays to shop late for Christmas
02 November 1996
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Flying sub
02 November 1996
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A plateful of medicine - More and more foods in the shops come with additives that the manufacturers say are beneficial to health. Now the industry is being told it will have to work harder to justify such claims
02 November 1996
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Brazil's caymans succumb to gold fever
02 November 1996
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Chickens could save rabbits from painful tests
02 November 1996
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Editorial : Too much too soon - WHO but a group of lawyers could present a draft international convention under the headline "Freedom of genomic expression"?
02 November 1996
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Editorial : Good news or bad? - DIRECT evidence that humans have been infected by the agent causing BSE finally appeared last week. A new method of characterising the prion proteins that cause the disease in cattle shows that they are the same as those fo
02 November 1996
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Test could pin down `mad sheep' risk
02 November 1996
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Anticancer drug slows down prion disease
02 November 1996
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Room with a reactive view in a rural German pile…
02 November 1996
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Flood gave birth to world's oldest religion
02 November 1996
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Nicotine may block formation of Alzheimer's plaques
02 November 1996
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Gene treaty promises rewards for unique peoples
02 November 1996
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Piracy lawsuits alarm Internet companies
02 November 1996
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Science : Pain discriminates between the sexes
02 November 1996
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Science : Why cold turkey is molecular murder
02 November 1996
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Los Alamos faces `bodysnatch' lawsuit
02 November 1996
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Rare beetles follow the plough
02 November 1996
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Leukaemia cluster
02 November 1996
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Calling all angels
02 November 1996
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Lottery loser
02 November 1996
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Pork with garlic
02 November 1996
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Losers show their colours at the starting gate
02 November 1996
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Review : What a relief
02 November 1996
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Antipodes : Bombing raids target Auckland's unwanted moth - Ian Lowe finds more than he bargained for in New Zealand
02 November 1996
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Letters : Bang on
02 November 1996
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Letters : Red peril
02 November 1996
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Letters : Heads or tails?
02 November 1996
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Feedback
02 November 1996
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The Last Word
02 November 1996
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Letters : Creative writing
02 November 1996
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Letters : . . .
02 November 1996
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Letters : Expensive mistake
02 November 1996
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Thistle diary : Poisoned land and playing safe - More comment from Westminster by
Tam Dalyell 02 November 1996
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Letters : Cosmic solitude
02 November 1996
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Letters : Patent myth
02 November 1996
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Fish TV presents . . . - If you want to understand the tiny plants and animals of the plankton, you need to zoom in for the close-ups
02 November 1996
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The big thaw - For years, US Navy scientists have been the envy of their poorer civilian cousins. Now the caring, sharing Pentagon is unlocking some of its most closely guarded secrets
02 November 1996
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Monster journeys - How does an animal that lives fixed to the spot on one side of the ocean suddenly appear on the other? Can a handbag, a shipwreck and a lab full of monsters give us some clues?
02 November 1996
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Mission to Marianas - If Mount Everest was dropped into the world's deepest trench, it would drown. Kaiko hit bottom . . . and came back to tell the tale
02 November 1996
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A feel for shells - Ever since his fingers first encountered the drab, chalky shells of the North Sea, Geerat Vermeij has had a passion for the natural world
02 November 1996
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Mud, glorious mud
02 November 1996
To human eyes the deep sea looks a singularly unpromising place for life to flourish. To the millions of tiny creatures that live there, it's every bit as rich as a tropical rainforest
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Deep sea revolution - It's tough at the bottom. But now, with the help of robot subs, seafaring ecologists can join the 20th century
02 November 1996
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Who rules the waves? - Viruses might just be bit players in the drama of the seas. Then again, they could be major actors
02 November 1996
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Letters : Doomsday doubts
02 November 1996
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02 November 1996
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Review : Fully briefed
02 November 1996
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Review : A head for hype
02 November 1996
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Review : Postoperative trauma
02 November 1996
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Review : Aping culture
02 November 1996
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The Invention that Changed the World by Robert Buderi
02 November 1996
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Review : Everything's going to be alright
02 November 1996
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Review : Going nuts over numbers
02 November 1996
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Review : Malice in memoryland
02 November 1996
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Review : Wide-eyed
02 November 1996
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Review : Skull now showing
02 November 1996
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Forum : Five apples a day . . . -
Gail Vines goes searching for the secret of healthy eating02 November 1996
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Letters : . . .
02 November 1996
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Letters : Alive and kicking
02 November 1996
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Letters : . . .
02 November 1996
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Forum : Footprints in the sandstone
02 November 1996
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Review : The words to think it
02 November 1996
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Review : Waiting for the weird
02 November 1996
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Bestsellers : from Washington
02 November 1996
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Review : Collected works
02 November 1996
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Review : Sacks in series
02 November 1996