April - 1994 Articles
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Rough times for Britain's wave machine
30 April 1994
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Green statistics
30 April 1994
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Saving ozone with a no-go zone: Jumbo jets are spending more time in the stratosphere than previously realised, and their emissions are damaging the ozone layer. Should flights in the stratosphere be banned?
30 April 1994
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Technology: Polymer putty makes for safer tumour treatment
30 April 1994
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Technology: Historical remains to go online for surveyors
30 April 1994
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Technology: Cable TV offers route into superhighway
30 April 1994
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Technology: Do not adjust your dish . . . yet
30 April 1994
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Science: Distant gas cloud poses dark matter puzzle
30 April 1994
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Science: In a whirl over stars that are 'too old'
30 April 1994
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Science: Africa's wild dogs pussyfoot round the big cats
30 April 1994
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Science: Electron 'trains' signal new state of matter
30 April 1994
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Science: Weird atom combines matter and antimatter
30 April 1994
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Science: Sex secrets of the spiny anteater
30 April 1994
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Patents: Back to the wall
30 April 1994
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Patents: Thomson presses CD makers for a slice of the action
30 April 1994
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Patents: Shell-suited sheep
30 April 1994
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No understanding
30 April 1994
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Open secrets
30 April 1994
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Musseling in on arthritis
30 April 1994
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Energy crisis blocks Chernobly deal
30 April 1994
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Comment: Patent good sense
30 April 1994
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Comment: What price for Chernobyl?
30 April 1994
Chernobyl still threatens Europe. Only one of the ill-designed reactors at the site exploded in 1986
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Milk hormone dispute boils over into court
30 April 1994
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Something cheap for Le Weekend?
30 April 1994
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Europe launches spring offensive against rabies
30 April 1994
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Rough guide to the wrong souvenirs
30 April 1994
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At last a strategy for government research
30 April 1994
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Where no robot has gone before
30 April 1994
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Fly that fills fire ants with fear
30 April 1994
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France thumbs its nose at drift-net ban
30 April 1994
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Bean patent sweeps the field
30 April 1994
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Popcorn hazard
30 April 1994
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Taboo TV
30 April 1994
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Unwelcome returns
30 April 1994
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Patents: Lean-to technology
30 April 1994
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Technology: Human disguise for tumour-busting toxins
30 April 1994
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Letters: Up the Antipodes
30 April 1994
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Letters: Getting it taped
30 April 1994
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Letters: Fuel controversy
30 April 1994
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Letters: Useful razor
30 April 1994
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Letters: Nursery skills
30 April 1994
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Letters: Spilt thrills
30 April 1994
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Feedback
30 April 1994
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Letters: Thick-skinned
30 April 1994
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Letters: Smart sidestepper
30 April 1994
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Letters: Round the twist
30 April 1994
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Letters: Light fantastic
30 April 1994
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Letters: Coloured bloomers
30 April 1994
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Letters: Stirring stuff
30 April 1994
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Letters: Relatively late
30 April 1994
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Letters: Ready to roll
30 April 1994
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Letters: Up the Antipodes
30 April 1994
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Letters: Basqueing in it
30 April 1994
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Letters: Premature
30 April 1994
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Washington Diary: Hit list is a burning issue in cigarette war - Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill
30 April 1994
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Technology: Try before you buy with software on CD
30 April 1994
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Patents: Charging ahead
30 April 1994
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Engineering the future of antibiotics: Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928 antibiotics have fought bacterial infection. But resistance to these traditional antibiotics is forcing researchers to look for alternatives, says Lori Valigra
30 April 1994
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Insects that carry a global warning: On the ruggedly beautiful island of Spitsbergen, entomologists are bringing some warmth into the lives of arctic aphids
30 April 1994
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Hot bubbles in space: What lies between stars in a galaxy? Not a huge expanse of nothingness but something altogether more interesting
30 April 1994
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Contraceptives?: There's a revolution going on in birth control for men and women. But the drugs companies have all but abandoned research . .
30 April 1994
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Review: Why is there no alternative?
30 April 1994
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Review: Growing mavericks in the hothouse
30 April 1994
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Review: Dial 021 693 6655 for art
30 April 1994
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Letters: Spilt thrills
30 April 1994
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Forum: Please don't cuddle the koalas - Carina Norris suggests you hug a keeper instead
30 April 1994
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Letters: Spilt thrills
30 April 1994
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Forum: Road builders make their pitch - John Whitelegg argues that planners and environmentalists are set on collision course
30 April 1994
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Review: Guide in the wild
30 April 1994
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Review: Software - How to dam up the floods of data, play at city building, become a multimedia author and identify beetle larvae
30 April 1994
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Review: Killing with kindness
30 April 1994
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Science: Spiny secret of submarine 'rainforest'
23 April 1994
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Science: How to make a buckyball-it's a wind up
23 April 1994
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Herbal hope
23 April 1994
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Science: Molecular time travellers revive 'extinct' gene
23 April 1994
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Boost for LHC
23 April 1994
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The artistic soul of the earwig
23 April 1994
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Technology: Inventor turns tide on power generation
23 April 1994
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Science: When is a comet not a comet?
23 April 1994
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Technology: More trouble at the US patent office
23 April 1994
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Technology: Neutrons see where X-rays can't . . .
23 April 1994
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Technology: . . . while lasers sniff out stomach ulcers
23 April 1994
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Technology: Chipping away at Balearics' energy needs
23 April 1994
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Technology: Current cleanser keeps lenses clean
23 April 1994
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Science: A breath of fresh air for planet Earth
23 April 1994
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Science: Machine gun cratering scarred the moon
23 April 1994
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Science: Ice age wobbles shaped climate
23 April 1994
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French protest
23 April 1994
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Time to tell
23 April 1994
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Insecure
23 April 1994
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Weapons scientists finger tax fiddlers
23 April 1994
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World unites to fight soaring population
23 April 1994
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. . . as privatisation threatens Britain's exports
23 April 1994
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Comment: Whose efficiency?
23 April 1994
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Infertile women face ban on fetal eggs
23 April 1994
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Internet 'pirate' charged in US
23 April 1994
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Aztec fruit reappears in the mountains of Mexico
23 April 1994
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Congress gives tobacco giants a roasting
23 April 1994
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'Bizare' plan in the name of efficiency . . .
23 April 1994
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Quark hunters closing in
23 April 1994
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Pollution inspectors get tough on Sizewell B
23 April 1994
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Japan's breeder is for burning
23 April 1994
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Echoes of ancient Africa in our speech?
23 April 1994
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Fatal blast at 'retired' reactor
23 April 1994
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STOP software speed trap ahead: Will patents on software bring progress on America's information superhighway to a standstill
23 April 1994
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Comment: To the bottom of the top
23 April 1994
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Letters: Flying scampi
23 April 1994
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Letters: Going nuts
23 April 1994
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Letters: Going nuts
23 April 1994
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Letters: Going nuts
23 April 1994
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Letters: Too much dust
23 April 1994
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Letters: Too much dust
23 April 1994
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A battle of networks
23 April 1994
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Feedback
23 April 1994
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Letters: Is it a bird?
23 April 1994
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Letters: Rising cold
23 April 1994
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Letters: Double vision
23 April 1994
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Letters: Wear and where?
23 April 1994
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Letters: Bedtime blues
23 April 1994
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Letters: Ask us another . . .
23 April 1994
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Letters: God's razor
23 April 1994
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Letters: Napoleon's organ?
23 April 1994
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Letters: Not so natural?
23 April 1994
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Thistle Diary: More trouble down the pits - Tam Dalyell pours cold water on empty collieries
23 April 1994
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Letters: Morphic relevance
23 April 1994
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Fine young slobs?
23 April 1994
Kids who spend hours hunched in front of television or computer screens may look as healthy as their active brothers and sisters. But are they storing up trouble? Helen Saul reports
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Britain's abandoned empire: Britain's attitude to its far flung island territories should prove deeply embarrassing for ministers attending a special UN meeting on conservation next week
23 April 1994
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Meet genetics' master chefs: All cells contain the same genetic information. So what makes a hair cell hairy or a bone cell bony?
23 April 1994
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Drilling for a past climate: Important clues about the Earth's past and future climate lie just a few metres below the surface
23 April 1994
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Review: The burdens of choice
23 April 1994
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Review: How fear eats the soul
23 April 1994
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Review: Every scientist a moral philosopher?
23 April 1994
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Forum: Can whalers be trusted to save the whales? - Vassili Papastavrou assesses the obstacles facing a proposed Southern Ocean sanctuary
23 April 1994
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Review: Battling for the planet
23 April 1994
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Letters: Morphic relevance
23 April 1994
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Letters: Cynical industry
23 April 1994
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Letters: New eugenics
23 April 1994
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Letters: Clerks with PhDs
23 April 1994
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Forum: Chaos reigns whenever it pours - William Burroughs laments the passing of old-time seasonal climate patterns
23 April 1994
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Review: Twitching is not the only route
23 April 1994
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Review: Love and hate in the machine
23 April 1994
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Science: Popular theory of cosmology is in trouble
16 April 1994
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Science: Why pig farmers whould love a duck
16 April 1994
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Technology: Taking the grind out of superconductors
16 April 1994
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Technology: A smart gun knows its owner
16 April 1994
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Technology: Floating wind farm awaits fans
16 April 1994
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Technology: Neural nets unearth secrets in stone
16 April 1994
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Technology: Why hot sheep need soft drinks
16 April 1994
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Costa Rican tree roots out plantation pests
16 April 1994
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Science: Golden glue in ancient weapons
16 April 1994
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Science: Galaxy pops up on 'far side'
16 April 1994
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Review: Not an easy bridge to cross
16 April 1994
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Review: Every woman her own specialist
16 April 1994
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HIV: the babies who escape
16 April 1994
Why do more than two in three babies born to HIV-positive women stay free from infection with the virus?
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How high can a fish jump?: Fish need help swimming upstream. But it has to be the right kind of help - as biologists in southeastern Australia discovered when stocks began to plummet
16 April 1994
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The future of work: it's all in the mind - In a world where offices cease to exist and job security has gone the way of lamplighters, your most precious asset will be your intelligence
16 April 1994
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Ecotourists to paradise: A new breed of tourists could help developing countries preserve their natural riches instead of destroying them in a dash for economic growth
16 April 1994
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Technology: Probe cuts danger of suffocation at birth
16 April 1994
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Science: How bracken's deadly chemical breaks the back of DNA
16 April 1994
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A bird in the hand, a bird in the bush
16 April 1994
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Copyright battle
16 April 1994
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Safety clearance
16 April 1994
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Turning swords into alloys . . .
16 April 1994
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Big bangs banned for sake of sea mammals
16 April 1994
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WHO targets needs of poorest
16 April 1994
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Tumour 'vaccine' brings reprieve
16 April 1994
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Comment: The coming of Netropolis
16 April 1994
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Privatisation is off, says efficiency squad
16 April 1994
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Too many rockets spread profits too thin
16 April 1994
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Killer quake that never was
16 April 1994
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Hot on the trail of the dinosaur
16 April 1994
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Malaria maverick takes on TB
16 April 1994
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Science: The way to outfox rabies
16 April 1994
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Improving the odds on justice: A 200-year-old probability theory could help to avoid some of the miscarriages of justice that embarrass the courts and have undermined public trust in the judicial system
16 April 1994
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Eyeing the ball
16 April 1994
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Green espionage
16 April 1994
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Storm warning
16 April 1994
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Hookworm harbours hidden promise
16 April 1994
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Disease in decline
16 April 1994
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When silence speaks louder than words
16 April 1994
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Review: They're alive
16 April 1994
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When small is beautiful
16 April 1994
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Letters: Screen psychedelia
16 April 1994
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Letters: Hot sounds
16 April 1994
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Letters: Dry run
16 April 1994
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Letters: It's a gas
16 April 1994
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Why is ther an ELF in my fridge?
16 April 1994
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The off button is on page six . . .
16 April 1994
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And an elephant dancing
16 April 1994
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One eno
16 April 1994
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School's out
16 April 1994
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Gone with the weird
16 April 1994
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Moving to the juice
16 April 1994
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That's entertainment
16 April 1994
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Black hat, white rabbit
16 April 1994
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Passionate illusions
16 April 1994
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Fasten your seat belts
16 April 1994
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A day in the Life
16 April 1994
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When the walls come down
16 April 1994
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Letters: Left in doubt
16 April 1994
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Feedback
16 April 1994
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Visions of netropolis
16 April 1994
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Letters: Female fellows
16 April 1994
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Letters: Women and violence
16 April 1994
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Review: Wise words on the ubiquitous owl
16 April 1994
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Review: The barefoot environmentalists
16 April 1994
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Review: Is saline the solution?
16 April 1994
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Thistle Diary: Engineering new strains of patent confusion - Tam Dalyell registers more comments from Westminster
16 April 1994
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Forum: When the mad accountant runs amok - Igor Aleksander laments the lack of true foresight in the White Paper on science
16 April 1994
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Forum: Time for an end to tribal warfare - Jeffrey Williams says the gulf between the sciences and the arts should be bridged
16 April 1994
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Letters: Women and violence
16 April 1994
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Letters: Essential junk
16 April 1994
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Letters: Seeing the light
16 April 1994
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Letters: Tea for toads
16 April 1994
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Letters: Where it counts
16 April 1994
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Letters: Body of evidence
16 April 1994
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Letters: Still more questions
16 April 1994
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Letters: Moonbeams
16 April 1994
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Letters: Not-so-happy pill
16 April 1994
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Letters: Collider collision
16 April 1994
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Building bones
09 April 1994
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Chernobyl's fate
09 April 1994
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Brighter future for boat lift
09 April 1994
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'Isolated' researchers lose cash
09 April 1994
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Science: How a sea change killed the clams
09 April 1994
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Science: Comet cataclysm is written in the stars
09 April 1994
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Science: The Smallest story ever told
09 April 1994
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Science: Babies born to artifical 'cells'
09 April 1994
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Hot bacteria & other ancestors
09 April 1994
Intestinal parasites and heat-loving bacteria are helping to revitalise research into how complex cells evolved three billion years ago
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Technology: Electricity spots the cells smears may miss
09 April 1994
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Technology: End of the line for petrol tank pollution
09 April 1994
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Technology: Multimedia patent is overturned after industry protest
09 April 1994
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Technology: Cellular 'control box' to switch on genes
09 April 1994
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Technology: 'Erogonomic' shovel gets over the hump
09 April 1994
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Technology: Four digits get set to sink CD pirates
09 April 1994
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Island payout
09 April 1994
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Lab auction
09 April 1994
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Culture shock
09 April 1994
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Comment: Germ nightmares
09 April 1994
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Comment: Smokaholics Anonymous
09 April 1994
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South Africa lures back its lost talent
09 April 1994
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Captain's log finds lost comet
09 April 1994
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.but will anything woo the schoolkids?
09 April 1994
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Cameras keep death off the roads
09 April 1994
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Aethelburg knew me ..
09 April 1994
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Nictotine research 'suppressed' by tobacco company
09 April 1994
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Experts clean up as Eastern Europe stays dirty
09 April 1994
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Will drugs giants bale out Darwin?
09 April 1994
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Patten ponders back to basics ..
09 April 1994
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Mine's a wine, with no extra tax
09 April 1994
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Pleasure or addiction?: The reason why cigarette companies change the levels of nicotine in tobacco is at the heart of an investigation that could see smoking banned in the US once and for all
09 April 1994
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Return flight
09 April 1994
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Outrage greets patent on designer sperm
09 April 1994
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Letters: Lesson from history
09 April 1994
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Letters: Sensible and safe
09 April 1994
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Letters: Little leaks
09 April 1994
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Letters: Sunken subs
09 April 1994
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Electromagnetic fields radiate concern
09 April 1994
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Feedback
09 April 1994
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Letters: Canned gas
09 April 1994
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Letters: Swinging together
09 April 1994
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Letters: Floating on air
09 April 1994
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Letters: The flakiest snow
09 April 1994
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Letters: Moon's up
09 April 1994
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Letters: Here we go again ..
09 April 1994
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Letters: Vaches enragees
09 April 1994
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Letters: Jupiter's revenge
09 April 1994
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Letters: Jupiter's revenge
09 April 1994
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Letters: Lab safety
09 April 1994
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Letters: Ultrasound alert
09 April 1994
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Forum: Adventures in physicsland - George Lafferty goes hunting for reality in fiction
09 April 1994
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Science: The ghostly hand that spaced the planets
09 April 1994
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Software's special agents: Tired of sifting through electronic mail, searching databases and scanning networks for interesting news? An intelligent agent could be what you need.
09 April 1994
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Not now, dear, I'm busy: If it's a constant battle of wills with your children, rest assured you're not alone. Parents throughout the animal world face the same problem - and there's a perfectly logical explanation
09 April 1994
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The Galaxy's Dark secrets: For years, astronomers knew there was a dark secret surrounding the Galaxy's missing mass. Now they think they know what it is
09 April 1994
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Review: Space-age shamans or shysters?
09 April 1994
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Review: Take one corpse, and add worms ..
09 April 1994
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Review: A treasure trove for mathematicians
09 April 1994
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Review: Holography finds a home
09 April 1994
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Review: Trading in madness and muddle
09 April 1994
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Letters: Climb on the roof
09 April 1994
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Letters: No panacea
09 April 1994
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Thistle Diary: My lords, ladies and gentlemen .. - Comment from the Westminster corner by Tam Dalyell
09 April 1994
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Review: Where the satellites are
09 April 1994
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Forum: Genes of yesteryear - What can we learn, Bernard Dixon asks, from disease-causing microbes preserved in the biosphere?
09 April 1994
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Review: Doubts and the dating game
09 April 1994
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Science: Fiery future for planet Earth
02 April 1994
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Technology: Fungi makes a meal of toxic waste
02 April 1994
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Doctor's fraud dents trust in trials
02 April 1994
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Science: Will altered plants breed deadlier diseases?
02 April 1994
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Science: Atoms in ever-increasing circles
02 April 1994
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Science: Nature's portable sperm bank
02 April 1994
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Who's afraid of the wandering WOLF?
02 April 1994
Wolves are slowly making a comeback in western Europe after centuries of hostility from humans. This time, conservation plans should help the species learn to live together
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Technology: Laser 'quake' could end the dentist's drill
02 April 1994
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Technology: Bacteria turn straw into liquid gold
02 April 1994
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Technology: Blue laser hits a harmonious note
02 April 1994
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Technology: Mystery of 'stupid' satellite plan
02 April 1994
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Technology: Visit Stonehenge - by computer
02 April 1994
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Shopping for couch potatoes: As teleshopping schemes spread across the US, supermarkets are fighting back by making the experience of shopping rich and fragrant
02 April 1994
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Common sense & the computer: There is no easy way to teach a computer all the things that humans take for granted .. like the fact that it cannot be in two places at once
02 April 1994
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Science: The incredible shrinking Aborigines
02 April 1994
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Crabs to be nipped by North sea dredging
02 April 1994
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Comment: Between the lines
02 April 1994
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Comment: The difference a week makes
02 April 1994
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France urged to come clean on military waste
02 April 1994
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Internet wide open to hacker attack
02 April 1994
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Fishing quays threaten turtles
02 April 1994
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Trophy hunters stalk Kamchatka
02 April 1994
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Pine marten disappears from England
02 April 1994
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Europe reluctant to curb toxic trade
02 April 1994
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Asteroid Ida is first with a moon
02 April 1994
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Space station plans still hazy
02 April 1994
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French breathe sigh of relief over 'Chateau Plomb'
02 April 1994
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Too much of a good thing?: American scientists are questioning the policy of addding iron to food. Their research suggests that too much of the element may lead to cancer. Karen Schmidt reports
02 April 1994
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Licensed to broadcast, so long as it's digital
02 April 1994
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It was only a meteor; Mr President
02 April 1994
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Killari: The quake that shook the world – According toearthquake hazard maps, Killari and its neighbours along the Tirna riverinCentral India should still be thriving villages rather than scenes ofdevastation. What went wrong?
02 April 1994
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Letters: SuperBee?
02 April 1994
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Letters: Dirty films
02 April 1994
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Letters: Speedy return . . .
02 April 1994
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Letters: Downward spiral
02 April 1994
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Letters: Minor readjustment
02 April 1994
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Letters: Well-behaved eyes
02 April 1994
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Letters: Expanding Clarke
02 April 1994
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Letters: Not so shocking
02 April 1994
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Letters: Back to the wheel
02 April 1994
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Letters: Reviews reviewed
02 April 1994
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Feedback
02 April 1994
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Letters: Light sneeze
02 April 1994
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Letters: Watery grave?
02 April 1994
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Letters: Mystery digits
02 April 1994
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Letters: Wrist watch
02 April 1994
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Review: Can anyone control nuclear weapons?
02 April 1994
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Review: The joys of glimpsing old oxo packets
02 April 1994
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Review: Paperbacks - Roy Herbert considers tricky repairs in space, cold fusion, elephants battling to survive, hackers, the heartening tale of the black robin and military incompetence
02 April 1994
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Review: A Florentine world turned upside down
02 April 1994
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Review: Call any envirommentalist
02 April 1994
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Review: On top of it all in the tropics
02 April 1994
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Review: Dreaming spires of history
02 April 1994
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Thistle Diary: Reactor repairs and biodiversity - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
02 April 1994
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Forum: Final flicker of a British flame - Jack Harris laments the demise of the classic safety match
02 April 1994
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Forum: Convergent we stand, divided we fall - Hari Sharan believes that North and South must work towards a common existence
02 April 1994
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Letters: Thatcher Derug
02 April 1994
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Letters: Thatcher drug
02 April 1994
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Letters: Thatcher drug
02 April 1994
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Science on a new plane
02 April 1994