May - 1996 Articles
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Editorial : Think global, act local - WHETHER you live in London, Tokyo or New York, it's hard to find anyone who will admit that they enjoy living in a big city. Even in the 18th century, when Samuel Johnson defended the pleasures of urban living with th
01 June 1996
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Science : Tadpole galaxies are lightweights
01 June 1996
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Science : Whooping cough paves the way for malaria vaccine
01 June 1996
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Science : Cancer's many points of departure
01 June 1996
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Japan takes its medicine - The fate of hundreds of haemophiliacs has struck at the very heart of the cosy relationship between Japanese doctors, drug companies and government
01 June 1996
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In the blood
01 June 1996
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Child smokers
01 June 1996
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Shaky engineering
01 June 1996
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Murky waters
01 June 1996
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Hastening death
01 June 1996
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Daytime view of northern lights
01 June 1996
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Technology : Bubbles give a sharper image
01 June 1996
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Science : Not-guilty verdict on cancer gene
01 June 1996
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Science : New state of matter pictured at last
01 June 1996
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Technology : Many hands make the robot work
01 June 1996
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Technology : Gadget will put Channel 5 viewers in the picture
01 June 1996
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Technology : Bionic brain cells teach the language of nerves
01 June 1996
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Science : Getting nowhere upsets the brain
01 June 1996
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Science : Early whales had no taste for salt
01 June 1996
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Editorial : Beware the juggernaut, my son - LAST WEEK, the British government announced that another six public research institutes are to be sent down the privatisation track.
01 June 1996
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Urban apocalypse postponed?
01 June 1996
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Living sea walls keep floods at bay
01 June 1996
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Hackers play war games with the Pentagon
01 June 1996
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Germans pull plug on Britain's batteries
01 June 1996
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Minamata victims win cash at last
01 June 1996
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Giant leap for Californian frog
01 June 1996
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The iceman cometh from Italy
01 June 1996
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Icelanders argue over their ancestors
01 June 1996
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`Piracy' law leaves Brazil open to exploitation
01 June 1996
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Fickle greens undermine consumer power
01 June 1996
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The fall and fall of British research funding
01 June 1996
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Wealthy nations face drinking water crisis
01 June 1996
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Oil prospectors pose threat to Amazon's ancient tribes
01 June 1996
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Science : Schrödinger's cation leaps into reality
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Science : Dozing echidnas sleep like newborn babies
01 June 1996
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Netropolitan :
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The Last Word
01 June 1996
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Review : A crisis of credibility
01 June 1996
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Forum : Many happy recoveries
01 June 1996
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Forum : Digging away at the foundations -
Haim Watzman explains why science and religion in Israel are at odds01 June 1996
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Thistle diary : Slow justice and a killer on the loose - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
01 June 1996
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Antipodes : Geoscience on shaky ground - Ian Lowe finds another target of Australia's razor gang
01 June 1996
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Enigma 877 : Fantastic football
01 June 1996
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Letters : Heavy duty
01 June 1996
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Letters : Up in smoke
01 June 1996
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Letters : Sperm and diet
01 June 1996
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Letters : Monkey madness
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Feedback
01 June 1996
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Letters : Centre that glitters
01 June 1996
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Letters : Magnificent machine
01 June 1996
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Letters : Now you see it...
01 June 1996
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Review : Collected works
01 June 1996
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Review : BESTSELLERS from Sydney
01 June 1996
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Technology : Surgeons hatch a better skin graft
01 June 1996
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Technology : Titchy scanners for your PET mouse
01 June 1996
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Noises on
01 June 1996
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Stranger in a strange land
01 June 1996
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Technology : Microwave will keep the weevils out of wheat
01 June 1996
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Technology : Flight plans for `doc-in-a-box'
01 June 1996
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Squatters take control - What started with a scheme for building sewers has grown into an all-embracing philosophy. Fred Pearce visited Karachi to see how local effort and basic technology succeeded where governments have failed
01 June 1996
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The zero option
01 June 1996
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Review : United they stood . . .
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Review : Building bridges
01 June 1996
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Review : Doctor Death
01 June 1996
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Review : Heavy conversations
01 June 1996
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Review : Liberating ideas
01 June 1996
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Review : Sticks like glue
01 June 1996
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Review : Fossils that New York forgot
01 June 1996
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Review : Dreams are made of this
01 June 1996
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Review : Crystal-ball gazing
01 June 1996
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Science : Glowing embers at the edge of time
25 May 1996
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Technology : Do-it-all protein helps kidney repair
25 May 1996
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Technology : Second-hand PCs `will sink Internet machines'
25 May 1996
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Technology : Big fat tokamak gets thumbs-up
25 May 1996
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Science : Sunspots send winter storms flying north
25 May 1996
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Science : Consensus emerges on age of the Universe
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Science : Squaring HIV's vicious circle
25 May 1996
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Science : Larvae give dancing bees bad vibes
25 May 1996
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Science : Fossil finds don't toe the line
25 May 1996
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Science : How to give a dinosaur the hump
25 May 1996
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Technology : Look out, it's behind you
25 May 1996
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Netropolitan :
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Technology : What goes up stays up a little longer
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Patents : Plea for more cash for innovators
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Patents : Light brigade
25 May 1996
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Patents : Gotta chew
25 May 1996
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Patents : See hear
25 May 1996
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Patents : Pop-up TV
25 May 1996
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Patents : Mary, Mary
25 May 1996
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Technology : One step nearer the Sun
25 May 1996
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US feed ban
25 May 1996
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Safe weight loss
25 May 1996
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France ignores benefits of folic acid
25 May 1996
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Military cash tempts more universities
25 May 1996
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Wide awake surgery keeps killer cells on the alert
25 May 1996
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Navy's bureaucrats cling to `open secrets'
25 May 1996
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Mexico fishes for end to tuna ban
25 May 1996
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Cold shoulder for climate research
25 May 1996
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Forensic lab awash with Semtex
25 May 1996
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Editorial : Why Semtex needs a room of its own - FORENSIC scientists at Fort Halstead, near Sevenoaks in Kent, bear a heavy responsibility.
25 May 1996
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What's it like to be a gorilla?
25 May 1996
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Plug a leak and save the world
25 May 1996
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LA's garden gas guzzlers die for a good cause
25 May 1996
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Gene battle
25 May 1996
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Fire alarm
25 May 1996
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Record breaker
25 May 1996
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Farming for distant degrees - Students on remote crofts in Scotland's Highlands and Islands are about to join the 21st century as education's electronic revolution brings lectures into their homes
25 May 1996
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Science : Mutants tear up nature's timetable
25 May 1996
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Swiss planned a nuclear bomb
25 May 1996
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All eyes on near-miss asteroid
25 May 1996
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Scourge of infections kills Third World's young
25 May 1996
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Editorial : Time to bury inflation? - ASTRONOMERS should be breathing a sigh of relief with the release of the latest measurements of the Hubble constant, which sets the size and age of the Universe. The good news is that it now appears to be older than t
25 May 1996
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The Milky Way
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Letters : Phantom feeling
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Letters : Micro Universe
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Washington diary : Under wraps and on the rocks -
Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill25 May 1996
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AustralAsian : Telemedicine in need of a check-up - Bob Johnstone finds Australia is unprepared for Asian health boom
25 May 1996
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Enigma 876 : Short circuit
25 May 1996
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Letters : Crash program
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Letters : Snowed under
25 May 1996
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Letters : Radiant Cornwall
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The Last Word
25 May 1996
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Feedback
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Letters : What a gas
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Letters : No drought of ideas
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Letters : Seal of contention
25 May 1996
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Review : BESTSELLERS from Oxford
25 May 1996
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Technology : Trip the switch and kill the cancer
25 May 1996
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Review : Zoo-ology
25 May 1996
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Review : Bomb ROM
25 May 1996
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Review : Written in the genes
25 May 1996
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Review : Space, sex and sums
25 May 1996
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Wrinkle Wars - The big guns of research are being brought to bear on the wrinkle. Rosie Mestel investigates the latest claims in cosmetics
25 May 1996
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Body of evidence
25 May 1996
Last month, a jury found Vicky Calder not guilty of charges that she poisoned her former lover. But as Leigh Dayton discovers, the case has raised questions about whether lay people should be asked to interpret complex forensic evidence
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All aboard the Pluto Express
25 May 1996
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Panning for data gold
25 May 1996
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Review : Enfants sauvages
25 May 1996
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Review : Prizewinners
25 May 1996
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Review : Doing the rounds
25 May 1996
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Forum : The trouble with Piggy's specs
25 May 1996
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Forum : Nature green in leaf and stem
25 May 1996
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Review : Raining facts
25 May 1996
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Review : Hawkeye
25 May 1996
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Review : Flora's daughters
25 May 1996
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Review : Master of the skulls
25 May 1996
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Review : Green grow the literati, oh
25 May 1996
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Review : Collected works
25 May 1996
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Review : Pulling them in
25 May 1996
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Where two worlds meet...
18 May 1996
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Technology : Red cells race towards a diagnosis
18 May 1996
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Technology : A sideways look at liquid crystal displays
18 May 1996
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Science : Heavy hydrogen unbalances the big bang
18 May 1996
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Science : Dinosaur DNA fails new test of time
18 May 1996
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Science : Molecular switch throws light on a miniature future
18 May 1996
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Science : HIV team cracks receptor mystery
18 May 1996
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Science : Do gamma rays burst from a quark soup?
18 May 1996
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Science : `Junkyard' yields new weapon against cystic fibrosis
18 May 1996
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Technology : Ferry service laid on for space commuters
18 May 1996
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Technology : Electric storm forecast could save satellites
18 May 1996
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Review special : So let them eat algae. . .
18 May 1996
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dash dot dash dot dash dot
18 May 1996
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Hello is anyone there
18 May 1996
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Secrets from another Earth - After three years, the $200-million bid to build a Martian colony on Earth, collapsed in disarray. Now, says Gabrielle Walker, Biosphere 2 has a team of top scientists with a brand new dream
18 May 1996
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Technology : The real winner at Eurovision
18 May 1996
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Technology : Congress may close spooks' back door
18 May 1996
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Technology : Designer antibodies hold tumours in lethal embrace
18 May 1996
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Science : Fur and feathers rose as plates pulled apart
18 May 1996
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Net arrests
18 May 1996
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Lean machine
18 May 1996
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Pill may hasten HIV infection
18 May 1996
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Editorial : Not in anyone's backyard . . . - LAST week, the German government sent in 9000 policemen armed with truncheons and water cannon against 3000 antinuclear campaigners with little more than hoods and scarfs to protect them. That an army of riot p
18 May 1996
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Editorial : Australia turns a blind eye - AUSTRALIA has long had a magnificent reputation with astronomers, mainly because of its willingness to invest in telescopes that exploit its location in the southern hemisphere. How sad, then, that this is being u
18 May 1996
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Tropical smogs rival big city smoke
18 May 1996
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Deadly blooms reach Britain's rivers
18 May 1996
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TV hell for millions as Channel 5 goes on air
18 May 1996
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Children learn faster to the sound of music
18 May 1996
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Companies turn blind eye to diddlers and spoofers
18 May 1996
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Secret evidence convicts wild birds
18 May 1996
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Land of the vanishing researcher
18 May 1996
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Shape-shifting hormones keep hearts healthy
18 May 1996
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Smokescreen
18 May 1996
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Healthy pinta
18 May 1996
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Prostate cooker
18 May 1996
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Written out of history - Britain's nuclear test veterans may lose their long battle for compensation because the government is threatening to axe a database containing their medical records
18 May 1996
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Bottle-fed babies need brain boosting formula
18 May 1996
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Cars must go to meet clean air target
18 May 1996
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Flying houseboat lands an award
18 May 1996
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Australia dashes astronomers' hopes
18 May 1996
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Legal axe hangs over green timber
18 May 1996
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Antipodes : Fuel cells promise a greener valley - Ian Lowe investigates a new coal technology
18 May 1996
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Feedback
18 May 1996
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Letters : Starfish sighted
18 May 1996
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Letters : Clock work
18 May 1996
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Letters : Inventing the wheel
18 May 1996
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Letters : By any other mane
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Letters : Morphine misery
18 May 1996
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Letters : Melting marshes
18 May 1996
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Enigma 875 : Oh hell!
18 May 1996
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The Last Word
18 May 1996
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Thistle diary : Lynx on a hot tin roof - More comment from Westminster by
Tam Dalyell 18 May 1996
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Letters : Trek tricks
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Letters : Morse on money
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Letters : Boyhood Beaker
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Letters : What year is it?
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Letters : Stick to the net
18 May 1996
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Review special : Doing it the alien way
18 May 1996
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Review special : Only connect
18 May 1996
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Review special : An anthropologist in space
18 May 1996
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Review special : Freud's riposte
18 May 1996
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Review special : Vita in vitro
18 May 1996
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Review special : Original altruist
18 May 1996
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Review special : Art's retort
18 May 1996
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Review special : Talking about evolution
18 May 1996
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Review special : Come again . . .
18 May 1996
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Review special : Sex and sensibility
18 May 1996
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Review special : Women's room
18 May 1996
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Review special : Ape and essence
18 May 1996
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Review special : . . . and again
18 May 1996
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Review special : BESTSELLERS from Oxford
18 May 1996
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Review special : Collected works
18 May 1996
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Forum : Living death of a ghost town
18 May 1996
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Forum : The self-confidence trick
18 May 1996
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Review special : Hijacking Earth
18 May 1996
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Review special : Affair to remember
18 May 1996
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Review special : Origins of misery
18 May 1996
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Review special : Return to Goodall
18 May 1996
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Review special : Speaking in many tongues
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Technology : Electric smelting for a cleaner future
11 May 1996
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Technology : Catch a cold and cure a cancer
11 May 1996
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Science : It's big, brown and it grows in the dark
11 May 1996
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Science : Ghost crystals on the move
11 May 1996
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Science : The cerebellum's sensitive side
11 May 1996
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Cosmic quest
11 May 1996
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False alarms
11 May 1996
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Eyes right
11 May 1996
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Technology : Solar weather cripples satellite
11 May 1996
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Technology : Military precision for civilian GPS
11 May 1996
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Science : Boiling stars shed bubbles of photons
11 May 1996
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Science : Do X-ray comets shed carbon?
11 May 1996
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Technology : Seed dip breaks witchweed's spell
11 May 1996
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Technology : Suicidal potatoes make sacrifice to save crop
11 May 1996
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Technology : Solar power turns on the heat
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Caught in the gold rush - Indigenous peoples claim they are paying the price of the world's gold fever in lost land and poisoned water. Some of them are in London this week to promote their cause
11 May 1996
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Science : Viral gene disarms mosquitoes
11 May 1996
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Article of faith fails aero engineers
11 May 1996
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Push for hospital births was misguided
11 May 1996
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South Africa returns wilderness to the people
11 May 1996
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Swiss cows fed on human placentas
11 May 1996
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Weak pound takes its toll of prestige projects
11 May 1996
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Forest fire menaces nuclear site
11 May 1996
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Fish on the brink
11 May 1996
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Gene spray
11 May 1996
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Pole partners
11 May 1996
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Deadly trade in Delhi's hospitals
11 May 1996
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Conflicts threaten polio target
11 May 1996
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Fairer odds for DNA fingerprints
11 May 1996
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Gene shuttle virus could damage the brain
11 May 1996
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Chaos on the buses drives Rio towards gridlock
11 May 1996
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Squirrels and scopes under fire
11 May 1996
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Smoke doesn't get in your eyes...
11 May 1996
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Panic over falling sperm counts may be premature
11 May 1996
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Editorial : Thinking the unthinkable - IN Tokyo, the trial of the Aum Shinrikyo cult leader has just begun. Shoko Asahara, the self-styled messiah who convinced his followers that Armageddon was coming and only the faithful would survive, is accused of ma
11 May 1996
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Science : Preparation pays for weedy iguanas
11 May 1996
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The Last Word
11 May 1996
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Review : BESTSELLERS from London
11 May 1996
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Review : Can't pay? Won't pay
11 May 1996
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Review : All in the mind
11 May 1996
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Antipodes : Wretched are the scientists - With cuts looming, Ian Lowe seeks revelation but finds ignorance and unease
11 May 1996
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Enigma 874 : Scamelot lottery
11 May 1996
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Thistle diary : Bad dreams and good little pigs - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
11 May 1996
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Letters : Bad timing
11 May 1996
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Letters : Brain shift
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Letters : Kind by accident
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Letters : Flipping DNA
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Letters : Certainty principle
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Letters : Fossil farce
11 May 1996
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Letters : Keep it simple
11 May 1996
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Letters : Silent lake
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Feedback
11 May 1996
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Letters : Story of O
11 May 1996
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Review : Collected works
11 May 1996
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Forum : Every motorway has a silver lining? -
Fred Pearce sees environmental engineering as the only way to keep the countryside green11 May 1996
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Review : Lost and found
11 May 1996
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Review : A matter of trust
11 May 1996
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Review : Hidden treasure
11 May 1996
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Review : On the chain gang
11 May 1996
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Heart of quarkness - Just when we thought we were on top of the subatomic world, strange noises are emerging from Chicago.
Hazel Muir asks if there is something wrong with our picture11 May 1996
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All fall down - One hundred kilograms of anthrax spores could wipe out an entire city in one go. It's only a matter of time before bioterrorists strike. Robert Taylor investigates
11 May 1996
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Junk that goes bump - If a tiny piece of debris penetrates the hull of the station it might kill or maim an astronaut.
Leonard David wonders if NASA is prepared for the worst11 May 1996
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Science : Lizard flies ahead by a neck
11 May 1996
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Wacky races - The prize for the fastest pedal-powered sub is a place in the
Guinness Book of Records . Scott LaFee reports from the starting line11 May 1996
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Review : Hear, hear
11 May 1996
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Forum : Let's keep the Mona Lisa smiling
11 May 1996
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Review : United we stand
11 May 1996
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Review : Cybersceptics
11 May 1996
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Review : Dead souls walking
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Review : Listen to the voices
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Review : Bye-bye, beluga, bye-bye
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Review : Bugs and bangs . . .
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Review : . . . squids and toasters
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Zombies, dolphins and blindsight - Is consciousness the hardest of hard problems? Is it all down to bits of wiring in the brain or quantum mechanics? And do animals know more than we think?
New Scientist visited Tucson to find out04 May 1996
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Science : Lost limbs reveal the brain's ghostly wiring
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Science : Flashes of light from the quantum world
04 May 1996
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Science : Oilmen's hunch proves rock-solid . . .
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Science : . . . as black gold reveals its plastic parentage
04 May 1996
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Science : Suicide is also a plant's best friend
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Heavier lorries planned for Britain's roads
04 May 1996
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Technology : Any sound you like, as long as it sells
04 May 1996
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Technology : Crunch time looms for processed peas
04 May 1996
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Technology : Catching blood clots before they do damage
04 May 1996
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Technology : Hidden watermark traps picture pirates
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Technology : Sad doll disease ends in tears
04 May 1996
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Technology : Star Wars satellite joins battle for the environment
04 May 1996
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Technology : How to track the body's hot spots
04 May 1996
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Second-hand smoke gets in your blood
04 May 1996
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Science : Have the mind mappers lost their way?
04 May 1996
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Monkey missions outrage animal activists
04 May 1996
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Natural radiation 'may kill thousands'
04 May 1996
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Editorial : A narrow kirk in Edinburgh - OVER the past few weeks, Edinburgh University has supported its controversial psychologist Christopher Brand, on the grounds that "academic freedom" allows his studies of intelligence, race and genetics. So far, so
04 May 1996
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Editorial : Green for danger . . . - THE government's attitude towards reducing the impact of transport on the environment is rather like St Augustine's view of chastity: "Give me chastity and continency—but not yet."
04 May 1996
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Europe's new rocket hangs on a shoestring
04 May 1996
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Mind switch could help disabled regain control
04 May 1996
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Passions run high over French cave art
04 May 1996
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Europe halts march of supermaize
04 May 1996
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British astronomy goes up for sale
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Naked apes
04 May 1996
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Restless gene
04 May 1996
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Asteroids galore
04 May 1996
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Radiation patchwork
04 May 1996
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The hole where the ultraviolet comes in
04 May 1996
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Drug-resistant TB
04 May 1996
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Shock pregnancies 10 years after sterilisation
04 May 1996
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Trouble bubbles for hydropower - From China to Norway, new hydroelectric schemes are supposed to help cut emissions of greenhouse gases. But will they?
Fred Pearce investigates04 May 1996
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Warm havens for life on Mars
04 May 1996
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Review : Outspoken engineer
04 May 1996
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Review : Norway's space
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Review : Words' worth
04 May 1996
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Review : Fairyland wins
04 May 1996
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Letters : No reply
04 May 1996
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Letters : Off the rails
04 May 1996
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Letters : Earthy philosophy
04 May 1996
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Letters : Ignorance is best
04 May 1996
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Letters : Did it jump?
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Letters : Mind about mines
04 May 1996
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Letters : Fur and freedom
04 May 1996
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Antipodes : Trees can lessen climate change economically - Ian Lowe looks at the costs of greenhouse policy
04 May 1996
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Letters : It's the Muppets . . .
04 May 1996
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Letters : Zeolite horror
04 May 1996
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Feedback
04 May 1996
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Review : Europe's megaliths
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Review : Particle hunters
04 May 1996
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One false step... - Hidden land mines take a terrible toll, killing civilians for years after a conflict ends.
Justin Mullins examines the technologies that researchers hope will tackle this lethal legacy of war04 May 1996
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Review : Demystifying Meg
04 May 1996
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Review : Children of an effluent age
04 May 1996
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Review : Sleep, glorious sleep
04 May 1996
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Enigma 873 : Prime time
04 May 1996
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Thistle diary : Hubble trouble and limestone rubble - More comment from Westminster by
Tam Dalyell 04 May 1996
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Forum : Save the animals, feed the people
04 May 1996
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Forum : Taking arms against the mercenaries
04 May 1996
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Review : Collected works
04 May 1996
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Review : BESTSELLERS from Sydney
04 May 1996
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Review : Missing
04 May 1996
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Review : Tell it true
04 May 1996
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Review : Body heated
04 May 1996
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Review : Great idea
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Review : The good, the bad and the FBI
04 May 1996
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The Last Word
04 May 1996