March - 2001 Articles
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The first split second
31 March 2001
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Feral purge
31 March 2001
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Gotta catch them all
31 March 2001
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Heart-breaking bugs
31 March 2001
Does a lifetime of fighting off infections trigger heart disease?
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It's the coolest
31 March 2001
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Into the abyss
31 March 2001
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E-mmune from attack
31 March 2001
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Sounds like a rose to me
31 March 2001
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The bridge of sways
31 March 2001
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Taste of their own medicine
31 March 2001
The price of AIDS drugs in Africa is in free fall. Pharmaceuticals giants have slashed prices by up to 90 per cent and one has even offered to allow poor countries to make copies of its patented products. It's a window of opportunity for Af
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Walk like an Egyptian
31 March 2001
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Chill out, say Lords
31 March 2001
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Bats in the gallery
31 March 2001
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Bugs with backbone
31 March 2001
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Annihilate or vaccinate
31 March 2001
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Scraping the bottom
31 March 2001
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One holographic lump or two?
31 March 2001
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Going commando
31 March 2001
What every SEAL needs is a diving suit that doubles as daywear
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Home movie hell
31 March 2001
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Double-quick damage reports
31 March 2001
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MRI brainwave
31 March 2001
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Symphony in Lycra
31 March 2001
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Spiders for Mars
31 March 2001
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Regrets, I've had a few...
31 March 2001
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Rotten Bananas for Me, Please
31 March 2001
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A Brief, but Passionate Encounter
31 March 2001
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Get your Teeth into This
31 March 2001
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Making Babies
31 March 2001
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What spreads viruses?
31 March 2001
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The smart card deal
31 March 2001
Bob Johnstone looks to China
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The Last Word
31 March 2001
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Feedback
31 March 2001
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. . . . .
31 March 2001
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Smelly child
31 March 2001
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Seat of the argument
31 March 2001
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Washington Diary
31 March 2001
Andreas Frew reports
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In a fizz over tax
31 March 2001
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Bestsellers
31 March 2001
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Escape from Reality
31 March 2001
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Making yourself ill
31 March 2001
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You're wrong part 2
31 March 2001
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Sober Samson
31 March 2001
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You're wrong part 1
31 March 2001
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Theorily confused
31 March 2001
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12 sides to every story
31 March 2001
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Big catch up
31 March 2001
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I say, listen to this
31 March 2001
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White-coated cats
31 March 2001
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Dim dwarfs
31 March 2001
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Hot brains
31 March 2001
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Rival particle smashers set out on collision course
31 March 2001
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Cracked it?
31 March 2001
Hold the bubbly until we're sure this superconductor really works
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On the blink
31 March 2001
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Mix and match
31 March 2001
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Mad sheep disease?
31 March 2001
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Like lambs to the slaughter
31 March 2001
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Suspect steak
31 March 2001
Meat butchered the traditional way could have killed five people
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Come the revolution
31 March 2001
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Bet you I can stop gambling…
31 March 2001
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When the wind blows
31 March 2001
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Turing chatlines?
31 March 2001
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The kidnapper that kills
31 March 2001
How the protein to blame for Huntington's disease wreaks havoc
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Fetch, Beagle, fetch!
31 March 2001
Who will be the first to bring back a sample of the Red Planet?
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Blaze of glory
31 March 2001
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Boys will be girls
31 March 2001
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Liquid crystal clear
31 March 2001
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The future's bright
31 March 2001
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Arty types
31 March 2001
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Scrub the planet clean
31 March 2001
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Something to shout about
31 March 2001
Deafness might one day be reversed by implants grown in a lab
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Protests take the shine off golden rice
31 March 2001
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Numb to mum
31 March 2001
Using drugs during labour can prevent mother and child bonding
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Found: one lander
31 March 2001
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Body check
31 March 2001
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Cleared for take-off
31 March 2001
SQUIDs have been drafted in to sniff out corrosion in aircraft
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Autism and MMR—the debate continues
31 March 2001
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Relax and live longer
30 March 2001
Lymphoma patients live longer if they receive relaxation and hypnotherapy treatment
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Pros and cons
30 March 2001
The question of whether to vaccinate against foot and mouth disease is crucial – we unravel the arguments
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Big question
30 March 2001
The UK government is agonising over whether to start vaccinating cattle against foot and mouth disease
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Mind game
30 March 2001
Psychological superiority alone could explain why Australia has won every rugby league World Cup since 1975
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Early bird
30 March 2001
Birds across the world are facing "a scramble to keep up with spring" as the climate warms
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Viral plumes
30 March 2001
Officials investigate if foot and mouth virus can spread from funeral pyres of infected animals
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Little and lonely
30 March 2001
Men who are born small are less likely to marry, and not just because they are shorter
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Ebola with wings
29 March 2001
The explosion of drug-resistant TB in Eastern Europe is as serious as an Ebola outbreak, says WHO expert
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I want one
29 March 2001
TV ads lead kids to want more toys, but brand names are forgotten
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Pavlov's people
29 March 2001
Memory can be boosted by associating smells with learning – but odours can lead to failure too
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Mind theory
29 March 2001
The brain regions critical in allowing us to understand another person's thoughts are revealed
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Heat is on
29 March 2001
The US Government abandons its backing for the treaty aimed at combating climate change by cutting greenhouse gases
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Catch all
28 March 2001
Europe is demanding a huge increase in the fish it can net off West Africa – conservation scientists are appalled
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Wired for sound
28 March 2001
A sensor-stuffed jacket and a kind of classical karaoke is helping budding maestros conduct an orchestra
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Warm up
28 March 2001
A new superconductor said to have zero electrical resistance at room temperature is revealed but scepticism remains
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Auroral storm
28 March 2001
Violent magnetic explosions strike at incredible speed high above Earth – now we know why
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Frog man
28 March 2001
A US military lab invents an amphibious suit you can wear comfortably out of the water
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Forgetting the future
28 March 2001
Young ecstasy users develop memory problems that usually plague much older people
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Big foot
28 March 2001
Fossil footprints reveal possibly the largest dinosaurs that ever lived – and their stalkers
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Off the menu
27 March 2001
UK bans pig swill and prepares for possible vaccinations to fight foot and mouth disease
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Walking on air
27 March 2001
Athletes wearing expensive 'air cell' trainers are four times more likely to suffer ankle injuries, say researchers
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Hear this
26 March 2001
Key hearing cells from mice are grown in the lab, raising the chances of transplants to boost damaged hearing
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Kidnap plot
26 March 2001
Why brain cells die in Huntington's patients is revealed and then reversed in the test tube
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Free for all
26 March 2001
Should all research papers in the biosciences be placed in one, free-access, web library? Yes, say 12,000 scientists
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Maize mix-up
24 March 2001
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Last breath
24 March 2001
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It's the pits
24 March 2001
Why are snowfields dimpled like the surface of a golf ball?
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Well aged
24 March 2001
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Clever clothes
24 March 2001
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Molecules do a Mexican wave
24 March 2001
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Steam engines in space
24 March 2001
Miniature spacecraft are puffing their way back to the steam age
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Sharp shooter
24 March 2001
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Baby, I saw you first
24 March 2001
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Traces of war
24 March 2001
Fears grow that radiation will contaminate Kosovan water supplies
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Gates of El Dorado
24 March 2001
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Kilroy woz nabbed 'ere
24 March 2001
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Running on empty
24 March 2001
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One-touch texting
24 March 2001
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Asleep at the wheel
24 March 2001
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An uncertain future
24 March 2001
Arguments rage over the risk of exposure to radioactive waste
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Early warning
24 March 2001
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Doorstep remedies
24 March 2001
Why trek into the forest when healing plants grow close to home?
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Sand shapes up
24 March 2001
Playing with sandcastles will take you into the fourth dimension
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Who's the daddy?
24 March 2001
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Consigned to the flames
24 March 2001
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The Last Word
24 March 2001
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Trial and error
24 March 2001
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Boiling viruses
24 March 2001
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Home of the brave?
24 March 2001
Even if Bush has jumped ship we can still save the world
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Carry on regardless
24 March 2001
Can the world go it alone if the US backs down on global warming?
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Sting in the tail
24 March 2001
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Teeny-weeny
24 March 2001
Japanese scientists unveil their incredible shrinking nucleus
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Green house-warming
24 March 2001
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This means war
24 March 2001
Alien invaders are decimating native wildlife all round the world
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Catastrophe or cure?
24 March 2001
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Broken promises
24 March 2001
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Hot property
24 March 2001
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Spying on alien worlds
24 March 2001
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As sick as a parrot
24 March 2001
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As easy as 1, 2, 3
24 March 2001
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Banished to a watery grave
24 March 2001
A 4000-year-old monument could be destroyed by returning it home
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Why chunky chickens are better for your health
24 March 2001
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Feedback
24 March 2001
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Pool watch
24 March 2001
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Snow in summer
24 March 2001
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Keyboard kid
24 March 2001
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Ancient ESP
24 March 2001
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Microscopic midwives
24 March 2001
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No forest, no ape
24 March 2001
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Impact in a teacup
24 March 2001
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Furious fans
24 March 2001
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The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan
24 March 2001
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Trick of the Light
24 March 2001
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There's life in the old dogs yet
24 March 2001
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A chair with brains
24 March 2001
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No cuddly bunny
24 March 2001
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Picture this
24 March 2001
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Cartel buster
24 March 2001
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Glass in fiction
24 March 2001
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Black air
24 March 2001
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Snail mail
24 March 2001
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Einstein's uncle
24 March 2001
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Meet the Mr Men
24 March 2001
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Taste of Heaven
24 March 2001
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Narrow Visions
24 March 2001
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That's entertainment
24 March 2001
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Why cycling can be a shattering experience
24 March 2001
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When breast is bad
24 March 2001
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Volatile Venus
24 March 2001
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Don't eat elk
24 March 2001
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Egged on
24 March 2001
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Culture Shock
24 March 2001
They don't have orchestras or art galleries, tools or technology, but whales still have a rich and varied cultural life, says Stephanie Pain
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The pressure's off
24 March 2001
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The monster in the lake
24 March 2001
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Seeing the seeds of cancer
24 March 2001
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Taken at face value
24 March 2001
If you think it's personality that counts, think again
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The giants' graveyard
24 March 2001
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Fate of twist
24 March 2001
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Westminster Diary
24 March 2001
Comment from Tam Dalyell
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Ruth Deech
24 March 2001
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Fight the Good Fight
24 March 2001
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E.O. Wilson
24 March 2001
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Caught in a trap
24 March 2001
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Balancing gravity
24 March 2001
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Correction
24 March 2001
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Robot munchies
24 March 2001
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. . . . .
24 March 2001
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Creative in court
24 March 2001
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What are the alternatives?
24 March 2001
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You need a gentle touch to feel an atom
24 March 2001
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Plague prediction
23 March 2001
The UK's foot and mouth epidemic could become eight times greater and last for months, say government scientists
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Faint matter
23 March 2001
Dim dwarf stars may account for much of the Universe's "dark" matter
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It's over
23 March 2001
The Mir space station plunges into the Pacific Ocean – the end of a glittering space era for Russia
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Sex reversal
23 March 2001
Laboratory mice which unexpectedly changed sex could help explain human sex switches
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Vaccination plan
22 March 2001
The spread of foot and mouth disease to the Netherlands prompts a pledge to vaccinate vulnerable animals
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Final countdown
22 March 2001
The Mir space station has entered its last hours before crashing down to Earth
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Learning lessons
22 March 2001
Contaminated meat is confirmed as the key suspect for transmission of vCJD, but what happens next?
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Frozen over
21 March 2001
The greatest floating ice sheet ever left its mark deep under the Arctic
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Double take
21 March 2001
A 3.5 million year-old skull unearthed in Kenya may force a re-examination of the evolution of modern humans
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Sick as a parrot
21 March 2001
A virus found in pet birds could trigger another lethal flu pandemic
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Vapour trail
21 March 2001
Miniature spacecraft could puff their way across the galaxy using steam engines
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Funeral pyre
21 March 2001
Researchers suggest a radical disposal method for UK farm animals slaughtered due to foot and mouth disease – napalm
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Wide spread
21 March 2001
Foot and mouth disease spreads from the UK to the Netherlands, but how it was transmitted is a mystery
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Fishy tale
21 March 2001
Vikings invading Scotland in the 9th century did not just come to pillage and plunder – they came to stay
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Cruellest cut
21 March 2001
Traditional butchering practices caused a cluster of British deaths from the human form of mad cow disease
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Down and out
20 March 2001
Despite frantic salvage operations, the world's largest oil rig has keeled over and sunk off Brazil
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Lost and found
20 March 2001
US military image experts say they've found the doomed Mars Polar Lander spacecraft
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Last lap
19 March 2001
Mir's last and most dramatic journey is delayed by another day
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Last lap
19 March 2001
Mir's last and most dramatic journey is delayed by another day
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No brain gain
19 March 2001
Hopes that Parkinson's disease can be treated by implants of pig cells are dashed after first major trial
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Punctured pride
17 March 2001
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Ageing apes
17 March 2001
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Smart proteins
17 March 2001
The exquisite structure of proteins allows them to perform complex tasks, from managing chemical reactions to building intricate communications networks that put the Web to shame. But if these smart molecules become defective, the results c
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Seas the initiative
17 March 2001
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Many moons
17 March 2001
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Cloning babies
17 March 2001
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The dissent of Steele
17 March 2001
Ian Lowe assesses Academe
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Gun lore
17 March 2001
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A Branch in the Jungle
17 March 2001
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True or False?
17 March 2001
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Out of the Dirt
17 March 2001
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Look to the Shell
17 March 2001
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Bits and chips
17 March 2001
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I am not a machine
17 March 2001
Igor Aleksander on the origins of cognitive science
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Threatened Birds of the World by BirdLife International
17 March 2001
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The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology edited by Gunter Wagner
17 March 2001
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A life's work
17 March 2001
Ehsan Masood talks to Stuart Kauffman, one of a pioneering generation of complexity theorists who struggled to define life in terms of advanced mathematics. Fifteen years on, his new book
Investigations makes it clear that there m -
Cruel to be kind
17 March 2001
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Pile 'em high
17 March 2001
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Still waters run deep
17 March 2001
How do you capture a river's flow? It's hard work, says Peter Lindstedt
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Growing great grass
17 March 2001
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Oxygen of publicity
17 March 2001
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Conversing in Klingon
17 March 2001
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17 March 2001
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Correction
17 March 2001
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Feedback
17 March 2001
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The Last Word
17 March 2001
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Westminster Diary
17 March 2001
Comment from Tam Dalyell
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Make cattle resistant to foot and mouth
17 March 2001
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Autistic academics
17 March 2001
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Motorola madness?
17 March 2001
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You hum it and I'll find it
17 March 2001
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Cleaner images
17 March 2001
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In a glass of its own
17 March 2001
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Glow for it
17 March 2001
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No magic ballot
17 March 2001
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Death by natural causes
17 March 2001
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Green-faced apology
17 March 2001
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Keep dem bones strong
17 March 2001
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When I see an elephant fly
17 March 2001
They may have made fun of Dumbo, but his ears were really cool
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Varuna, lord of the cosmos, joins the Solar System
17 March 2001
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Leaves saved plants from suffocation
17 March 2001
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Piece of the action
17 March 2001
The race is on to stake a claim in a hot new superconductor
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Realise your potential
17 March 2001
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Stop taking the tablets
17 March 2001
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Sniff out infections before you feel ill
17 March 2001
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Whales just want to have fun
17 March 2001
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Don't drink and hike
17 March 2001
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Easy to forget
17 March 2001
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Pass it on
17 March 2001
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Rocket plume
17 March 2001
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What women want
17 March 2001
For women who've lost that loving feeling the idea of a physical fix is very seductive. But is it the answer, asks Diane Martindale
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Silky scaffolding
17 March 2001
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Compost your car
17 March 2001
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Orbiting cinema
17 March 2001
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Triumph for spin doctors
17 March 2001
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Suck it and see
17 March 2001
Your tongue could give you a whole new sense of direction
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It's not unusual
17 March 2001
Oceans beneath icy moons? Such hidden depths are to be expected
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Fussy fish fake it
17 March 2001
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It's time to scrap the gas guzzlers
17 March 2001
But engines that burn hydrogen would make pollution worse
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Flirting with death
17 March 2001
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Business as usual
17 March 2001
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Breeds apart
17 March 2001
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Sounds alarming
17 March 2001
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Life will find a way
17 March 2001
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Not now, Dr Miracle
17 March 2001
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Cows in clover
17 March 2001
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Kill the swill
17 March 2001
The days of feeding leftover food to pigs may be numbered
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Kill the music if you want good grades
17 March 2001
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Resistance is futile
17 March 2001
Superbugs may be defeated now we know how they beat antibiotics
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Purrfect pets
17 March 2001
How your cat can protect your children from asthma
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Technical hitch trips up gene revolutionaries
17 March 2001
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Eat your greens
17 March 2001
Pests may confuse their dinner with a bunch of weeds
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Why we can't tell the wood from the trees
17 March 2001
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Imperfect harmony
17 March 2001
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Is polar meltdown just hot air?
17 March 2001
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Hot stuff
17 March 2001
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Cull continues
16 March 2001
Killing a million healthy animals in areas with foot and mouth disease is the only way to fight the UK outbreak
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Cull continues
16 March 2001
Killing a million healthy animals in areas with foot and mouth disease is the only way to fight the UK outbreak
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Spread of pollution
16 March 2001
Butter could be the key to tracking levels of air pollutants around the world
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Last lap
16 March 2001
The final preparations for Mir's last and most dramatic journey begin
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No brain gain
16 March 2001
Hopes that Parkinson's disease can be treated by implants of pig cells are dashed after first major trial
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Deadly import
16 March 2001
A study of World War II troop movements supports the idea that an infectious agent causes leukaemia
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Mother's milk
16 March 2001
Babies breastfed for longer than four months may have higher risk of hardened arteries later in life
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Burning issue
15 March 2001
The US President's decision not to force coal-fired power plants to reduce CO2 output is widely condemned
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Patents passed up
15 March 2001
Drugs giant announces it will effectively waive its patent rights on HIV/AIDS medicines in Africa
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Sweet success
15 March 2001
Algae that normally need sunlight to survive have been genetically modified to grow in the dark
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Familiar faces
15 March 2001
Paintings of ancient Egyptians can reveal clues to neurological illnesses that plagued our ancestors
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Smelly breath
14 March 2001
Sniff out infections before you feel ill
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Galactic hitchhikers
14 March 2001
Microbes could fly across the Galaxy aboard a fleet of meteorites
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Dark thoughts
14 March 2001
Freud may have been right: people can suppress memories
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Chip chop
14 March 2001
A flaw in a widely used "gene chip" stops some research projects dead
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Branching out
14 March 2001
Plummeting carbon dioxide levels may be why plants evolved broad leaves
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Big ears
14 March 2001
They may have made fun of Dumbo, but his ears were really cool
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Kill the swill
14 March 2001
The days of feeding leftover food to pigs may be numbered
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Glow for it
14 March 2001
Modified military night-vision goggles show up radioactive spills as a glow in the dark
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Virus emigrates
14 March 2001
Vets confirm the first cases of foot-and-mouth disease in livestock in mainland Europe
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Pointer for autism
14 March 2001
Finger lengths, which are determined in the womb, may yield clues to the cause of autism
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Quasar part II
13 March 2001
The Chandra X-ray observatory turns up an intriguing astronomical object near the edge of the visible Universe
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Think again
13 March 2001
Transplanting fetal brain cells to treat Parkinson's disease remains an attractive therapy, as the trial producing "disastrous" results is heavily criticised
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Heavy water
13 March 2001
A UN report says depleted uranium contamination is not widespread in Kosovo, but warns drinking water could be affected in future
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Good bug, bad bug
13 March 2001
A new gene test can identify a dangerous bacterium endemic in US hospitals and now threatening Europe
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Drugs deal
12 March 2001
The Ivory Coast signs up for cut-price HIV drugs from western companies, the latest move on a controversial issue
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Punctured pride
12 March 2001
NASA's second attempt to send a giant test balloon around the world fails
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Log on, check up
10 March 2001
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Robochute has landed
10 March 2001
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A is for aardvark
10 March 2001
The first Who's who of the natural world has been launched
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Pee to win
10 March 2001
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Written off
10 March 2001
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Down among the bugs
10 March 2001
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Saved by Sponge Man
10 March 2001
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Bollywood or bust
10 March 2001
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Charmed, I'm sure
10 March 2001
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How a bigger bottom makes you more desirable
10 March 2001
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Toppling tellies
10 March 2001
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Dynamo support
10 March 2001
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Fast-track fruit
10 March 2001
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Simple recipe
10 March 2001
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Wrong place
10 March 2001
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The omega man
10 March 2001
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Close calls
10 March 2001
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Foiled again
10 March 2001
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Quit or die, says talking cigarette packet
10 March 2001
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Free speech, Liberty, Pornography
10 March 2001
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How pilots can steer clear of erupting volcanoes
10 March 2001
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Trick of the light
10 March 2001
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Snowball fight
10 March 2001
Photos of "mini-comets" cut no ice with critics of space water
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Star-struck van Gogh kept his eye on the sky
10 March 2001
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Love's flavours lost
10 March 2001
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Fingers crossed ...
10 March 2001
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Vintage weather
10 March 2001
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Year of the rat
10 March 2001
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It's back
10 March 2001
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Address withheld
10 March 2001
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Breathe easy
10 March 2001
Mainland Europe's close escape from windborne foot and mouth
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Safety in numbers
10 March 2001
Don't blame the foot and mouth crisis on intensive farming
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No great shakes
10 March 2001
The station has not made any seismic scientific breakthroughs
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Relax, your chances of being pulverised are tiny
10 March 2001
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Guilty as charged
10 March 2001
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Give us a plan
10 March 2001
We know we can beat climate change. Just one thing is missing
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Think first, cut later
10 March 2001
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Is baby 'medicine' laced with poison?
10 March 2001
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Deep trouble
10 March 2001
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Fears of BSE epidemic in sheep prove unfounded
10 March 2001
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Feel it in your fingers
10 March 2001
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Slow down
10 March 2001
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Setting sail
10 March 2001
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Unite against malaria
10 March 2001
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NEAR the end
10 March 2001
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Sick to the stomach
10 March 2001
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Take two killers
10 March 2001
An alliance of deadly viruses could vanquish cystic fibrosis
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When a new house is positively sickening
10 March 2001
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Slip sliding away
10 March 2001
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Being in good company helps fermions cool off
10 March 2001
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Shattering the greenhouse
10 March 2001
We have the technology to halt global climate change, so let's use it
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Houston, we have no money
10 March 2001
NASA has to cut missions as Bush tightens the purse strings
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An unholy war
10 March 2001
Extinction. Thanks to poaching, that's the threat facing India's elephants. They could be wiped out within a decade, says ecologist Vivek Menon, founder of the Wildlife Trust of India, based in New Delhi. What's ironic is that Menon leads t
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Playing fair
10 March 2001
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Beneficial bark
10 March 2001
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Clean converters
10 March 2001
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10 March 2001
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Autism increase
10 March 2001
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The Last Word
10 March 2001
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Feedback
10 March 2001
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Pyrotechnic prank
10 March 2001
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Tuneful proteins
10 March 2001
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What's that tune?
10 March 2001
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Richard Fortey
10 March 2001
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Mary Archer
10 March 2001
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In the Realm of the Weird
10 March 2001
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Habit of flirting
10 March 2001
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Fighting for the right to life-saving research
10 March 2001
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Living within our means
10 March 2001
Ian Lowe reports on a new thrust for sustainability
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Westminster Diary
10 March 2001
Comment from Tam Dalyell
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Seas of delight
10 March 2001
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A faint flap of wings
10 March 2001
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Look Up and Wonder
10 March 2001
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All my Own Work
10 March 2001
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Return to the Lost Continent
10 March 2001
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Mir delay
09 March 2001
Mir's return to Earth is delayed until 20 March, to ensure maximum fuel is available during re-entry
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Cloning plan
09 March 2001
Two fertility scientists say they expect the first human clone to be born in their clinic within two years
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World Wide Web 2
09 March 2001
The internet's governing body is facing a grave challenge – the emergence of a rival Web
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Monarch massacre
09 March 2001
Reports that 22 million butterflies were slaughtered in Mexico are greatly exaggerated, says WWF
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Tone deaf
08 March 2001
Lessons cannot bestow an ear for music – your ability to judge musical pitch is almost entirely inherited
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Sight and sound
08 March 2001
The colour of your eyes indicates how your ears will react to infection with bacterial meningitis
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Big bottom
07 March 2001
Most sexual ornaments are sported by male animals – but not the olive baboon's backside
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Under the weather
07 March 2001
Food poisoning rockets in summer but poor farm hygiene is to blame, not careless consumers
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Slip sliding away
07 March 2001
The fabled lost city of the Incas is teetering on the edge of a landslide
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Swell idea
07 March 2001
Spongy artificial muscles allow a new implant to release drugs on demand – astronauts might sleep better as a result
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Tough talking
07 March 2001
A talking cigarette packet that recites a firm health warning on opening is revealed in a new patent
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Fingers crossed
07 March 2001
Bringing down the Russian space station will be fraught with uncertainty
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Drug case delay
07 March 2001
A South African court case over drug patents is postponed, after submissions from AIDS activists are allowed
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Barbecue wings
07 March 2001
A large mirror sculpture will have to be shielded to prevent it focusing the Sun's rays and baking passing birds
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Hubble rebooted with crucial new power unit
06 March 2001
Spacewalking astronauts successfully reactivate the telescope's power after its first ever shut down
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Electrical connection
06 March 2001
Radiation from power cables and appliances can be linked to a small risk of childhood leukaemia
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Space swap
06 March 2001
The International Space Station's new crew blasts off
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Hubble shut down for crucial new power unit
06 March 2001
The telescope's power is shut down for the first time ever – spacewalking astronauts have just 10 hours to get it running again
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Block the rock
06 March 2001
Napster's new filtering software starts blocking songs, but can it ever be totally effective?
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Bitter pill
05 March 2001
A court case over pharmaceutical patents could set a precedent for health care across the developing world
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Gas guzzling
05 March 2001
Progress on technology to cut greenhouse-gas emissions is "faster than anticipated", say UN experts
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Blown out
05 March 2001
Foot and mouth disease is unlikely to have spread to mainland Europe on the wind – a rare piece of good news
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Nutty problem
04 March 2001
Peanut allergens can be passed from mother to baby through breast milk
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Molecular wiring
03 March 2001
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Best of both worlds
03 March 2001
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Keep an eye on Dad
03 March 2001
A photo frame that lets you know how an elderly parent is coping
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Better humour
03 March 2001
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Logging ban backfires
03 March 2001
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Easy does it
03 March 2001
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It's a breeze
03 March 2001
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Watch the skies
03 March 2001
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A breath of fresh air for future Concordes
03 March 2001
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Smooth operator
03 March 2001
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Making the switch
03 March 2001
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Stressed out
03 March 2001
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Bottled up
03 March 2001
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Wild at heart
03 March 2001
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You'll never guess what
03 March 2001
The day computers turn molecular is rapidly approaching
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Pushing the envelope
03 March 2001
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Whizz-kid computer
03 March 2001
Have programs got smart enough to learn language the way we do?
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Frosty space dust may have seeded life
03 March 2001
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Praise at last
03 March 2001
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Gentler swings
03 March 2001
Kinder drugs for depression?
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Martian compasses
03 March 2001
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The big turn-on
03 March 2001
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Flabby minds
03 March 2001
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The accused
03 March 2001
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Soothing the mind
03 March 2001
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Sitting target
03 March 2001
It's asking for trouble to leave farm animals unvaccinated
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Virus on the rampage
03 March 2001
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Why the slaughter?
03 March 2001
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Reprogram your body
03 March 2001
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High-flyer deflates
03 March 2001
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Stuck on a reef
03 March 2001
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Blown away
03 March 2001
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Catch the wave
03 March 2001
Mirrors that blow hot and cold will pick up elusive gravity waves
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Switched-off gene holds key to BSE test
03 March 2001
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Wipeout
03 March 2001
Did a comet cause Earth's biggest ever mass extinction?
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Life is sweet
03 March 2001
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No need for rash action on MMR vaccine
03 March 2001
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Beating the love bug
03 March 2001
The days are numbered for the virus that leads to cervical cancer
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Moonstruck
03 March 2001
Looking for super-fast cosmic rays? Watch them slam into the Moon
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Humble chemical has starring role as superconductor
03 March 2001
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Fat heals
03 March 2001
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Westminster Diary
03 March 2001
Comment from Tam Dalyell
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When meat is murder
03 March 2001
Could you ever make a meal of your neighbour, asks Simon Ings
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How was Your Valentine's Day?
03 March 2001
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A Nobel Life
03 March 2001
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What's on Your Mind?
03 March 2001
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Spacefaring by Albert Harrison
03 March 2001
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Set in their ways
03 March 2001
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Waiting to exhale
03 March 2001
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Defining deerness
03 March 2001
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Come again?
03 March 2001
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At quantum's mercy
03 March 2001
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Big Brother, the RumorBot
03 March 2001
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Hearing aid blocked
03 March 2001
Ian Lowe discusses public health
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The last word
03 March 2001
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Burn out
03 March 2001
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Feedback
03 March 2001
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Yes, no or maybe
03 March 2001
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Cod piece
03 March 2001
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Funny ha ha
03 March 2001
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Don't drink and ride
03 March 2001
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Watching the wireless
03 March 2001
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Spare parts in orbit
03 March 2001
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Fight the ATM aliens
03 March 2001
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Gravity probes the hidden depths
03 March 2001
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Target Earth
03 March 2001
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Thought control
03 March 2001
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It was the booze...
03 March 2001
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Look at it this way
03 March 2001
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It's all Meme, Meme, Meme
03 March 2001
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Taking the plunge
03 March 2001
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Bestsellers
03 March 2001
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Tales of the paranormal
03 March 2001
It's a scary thought. What if telepathy is real, and we can read each other's minds? And what if the paranormal is a genuine artefact of our fabulously complex brains rather than statistical hogwash or fraud? Will Robert Morris be the man t
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Called to account
02 March 2001
NASA scraps its hope for replacing the ageing space shuttles, while cuts hit the International Space Station
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Sharp shooter
01 March 2001
A new display technology promises to make high-resolution, widescreen TVs much more affordable
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NEAR the end
01 March 2001
The first spacecraft to land on an asteroid finally loses touch with Earth
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Solar sailing
01 March 2001
The first craft to be blown by the Sun's light could be in space by the year's end
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Fast-track fruit
01 March 2001
Orange trees that bear fruit in just one year are created in Spain
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Express delivery
01 March 2001
The infecting skills of HIV and Ebola could be harnessed to smuggle genes into diseased lungs
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Doing the twist
01 March 2001
Different muscle structure explains why sportswomen are far more likely to suffer knee injuries