November - 1999 Articles
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Death by fungi
27 November 1999
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All at sea
27 November 1999
Submerged stones take years off ancient "building"
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Trade wars on the Web
27 November 1999
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Safe to spread
27 November 1999
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In the mood
27 November 1999
Does having sex make men more aggressive?
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Facial fir
27 November 1999
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Power of silence
27 November 1999
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Charged pills
27 November 1999
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Killing the agony
27 November 1999
Poisoning faulty nerve cells stops twinges becoming torture
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Voles' last stand
27 November 1999
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Cells with rhythm keep us breathing
27 November 1999
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Danger money
27 November 1999
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Who's listening?
27 November 1999
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Get ready to rock
27 November 1999
Being stressed can prepare your ears for deafening dins
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Unhealthy habit
27 November 1999
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Gone in a blink
27 November 1999
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Hard as nails
27 November 1999
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Triple hinge
27 November 1999
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Left guessing
27 November 1999
Why is nature left-handed? The mystery deepens…
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Unwrite this
27 November 1999
It's heresy, but time running backwards could explain dark matter
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Jumping gene flash
27 November 1999
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Slippery slope
27 November 1999
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Relative values
27 November 1999
Crossing rice with its wild cousins works wonders
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Price of protection
27 November 1999
The Pill leaves women vulnerable to gum disease
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Panicked penguins
27 November 1999
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Megablasts
27 November 1999
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Dip disease
27 November 1999
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Jurassic spark
27 November 1999
Electronic wizardry is about to bring dinosaurs back to life
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The drinks are on us
27 November 1999
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Freezing future
27 November 1999
There's now alarming evidence that Europe is facing an ice age
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Bubbles go squeak
27 November 1999
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Cheeky test
27 November 1999
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The stinging seas
27 November 1999
A tiny, transparent killer is lurking off Queensland
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Now gourmets may guzzle in safety
27 November 1999
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Now you see it . . .
27 November 1999
Soldiers can radio without detection, thanks to excited gas
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Free for all
27 November 1999
Free trade protects the environment-right or wrong? A special meeting in Seattle promises to be decisive
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Mini mobiles
27 November 1999
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Wicked weedkiller
27 November 1999
Fat hen succumbs to tomato-loving fungus
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Sliced by ice
27 November 1999
A jet of ice crystals makes a cleaner cut
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Over in a flash
27 November 1999
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Writing on the wall
27 November 1999
Understanding global warming is fine, the point is to stop it
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Correction
27 November 1999
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27 November 1999
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One for the pot
27 November 1999
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Uncommon talent
27 November 1999
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Economical truth
27 November 1999
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Shaded view
27 November 1999
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Fun in a bottle
27 November 1999
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Alcoholism: The Facts Donald Goodwin
27 November 1999
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The Alcohol Textbook edited by K. A. Jaques, T. P. Lyons and D. R. Kelsall
27 November 1999
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Tricky treats
27 November 1999
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Pushing it
27 November 1999
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Feedback
27 November 1999
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The last word
27 November 1999
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27 November 1999
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Washington diary
27 November 1999
Andreas Frew reports
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Computing crop yields
27 November 1999
Bob Johnstone reports on food
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Governments are too open
27 November 1999
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Healing thoughts
27 November 1999
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No relation
27 November 1999
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Golden century
27 November 1999
Sidney Perkowitz looks at 100 years that shook the world
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Bestsellers from London
27 November 1999
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God's astronomers
27 November 1999
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Beastly drunk
27 November 1999
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Skinny drinking
27 November 1999
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The gene in the bottle
27 November 1999
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Desperate remedies
27 November 1999
Having a hangover is no fun at all. So why did Andy Coghlan get plastered four weekends running?
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Mirror image
27 November 1999
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Fat attack
27 November 1999
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Jane behaving badly
27 November 1999
Dear Ms Tipple, Your behaviour last night at the office millennium party was appalling. Within an hour of arriving, you were singing bawdy songs and shouting obscenities at your colleagues. Then, minutes later, you began to disrobe. As if that weren't bad enough, you astonished us all when you attempted to kiss the Chairman, Mr Monk. He can be considered lucky, however, that he was out of range when, soon after, you began to vomit. Ms Stern from accounts cannot count herself so lucky. I can tell you, we were all much relieved when you passed out and were removed to the hospital for observation. Can you please explain how this happened? John Temperance, Managing Director
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Canine cops
27 November 1999
Dogs cut costs of green clean-up
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Star attraction
27 November 1999
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Grog of the Greeks
27 November 1999
They couldn't make a Manhattan or a screwdriver, but Bronze Age boozers could still mix a mean cocktail.
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Real men don't drink
27 November 1999
Men might feel like studs after a few drinks but nothing could be further from the truth, regrets Maria Burke
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American dream
27 November 1999
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The barman's tale
27 November 1999
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A matter of taste
27 November 1999
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Boozing by numbers
27 November 1999
Who makes the most alcohol, who drinks the most and how our drinking habits are changing
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Just one glass
27 November 1999
After decades of controversy, it looks as if a little booze really is good for us. Geoff Watts will drink to that
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What's your poison?
27 November 1999
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No substitute . . .
27 November 1999
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Pickled livers
27 November 1999
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Whizzing polymers
20 November 1999
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Squeeze box special
20 November 1999
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Conflicting signals
20 November 1999
Attempts to speed up the hunt for aliens dismay astronomers
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Before time
20 November 1999
Is there a special day when boozing means a premature birth?
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Moon fires jets at Jupiter
20 November 1999
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Blown away
20 November 1999
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Relativity tester
20 November 1999
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Waste nut, want nut
20 November 1999
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The nick of time
20 November 1999
NASA has spared itself another major embarrassment
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Paperless writers
20 November 1999
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Mean and minty
20 November 1999
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Clean compromise
20 November 1999
If you can't store hydrogen, why not make it instead?
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Fearless firefighter
20 November 1999
A robot on rails could save lives in tunnel fires
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Ration roulette
20 November 1999
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Splitting headache
20 November 1999
Monsanto's modified soya beans are cracking up in the heat
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Bubble bursts illusion of e-mail security
20 November 1999
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Only ourselves to blame
20 November 1999
The latest climate report makes sobering reading
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More Hubble trouble
20 November 1999
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More is less
20 November 1999
New recruits aren't always good news for animals on the brink
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Chance inheritance
20 November 1999
Has gene therapy left its mark on the next generation?
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Alien inspiration
20 November 1999
A walking robot could make its wearer incredibly powerful
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On your markers
20 November 1999
New ways of engineering plants could win over sceptics
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Unflappable
20 November 1999
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Back to the drawing board
20 November 1999
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No sticky surprises
20 November 1999
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Get ahead
20 November 1999
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No stopping Bill
20 November 1999
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Why you need heroin like a hole in the head
20 November 1999
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In hot water…
20 November 1999
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Japanese cloning pioneers break the rules
20 November 1999
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Don't chew on this
20 November 1999
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Hell on Earth
20 November 1999
Were the last of the dinosaurs roasted alive?
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The Cold War resurfaces
20 November 1999
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Endless forms
20 November 1999
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Mystery shrouds origins of giant planet
20 November 1999
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Happy medium
20 November 1999
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The last word
20 November 1999
How is it possible for woodpeckers to peck so hard without getting brain damage?
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Secrets
20 November 1999
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King of hearts
20 November 1999
For five days in October, Jorge Reynolds was cruising around Gorgona Island off the coast of Colombia in a naval submarine. His mission: to get close enough to migrating pods of humpback whales to hear their hearts beat. Over the past 15 ye
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Real waterworld
20 November 1999
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Bestplayers
20 November 1999
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A very English idyll
20 November 1999
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Groping with the future
20 November 1999
Ian Lowe looks at our state of awareness
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Solid mercury
20 November 1999
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Trees have no guts
20 November 1999
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Only convert
20 November 1999
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Senseless seeing
20 November 1999
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Delayed evolution
20 November 1999
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Money isn't everything
20 November 1999
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Correction
20 November 1999
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Gifts and gore
20 November 1999
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Westminster diary
20 November 1999
Comment from Tam Dalyell
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Feedback
20 November 1999
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The wild and the wonderful
20 November 1999
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A bag of delights
20 November 1999
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Eaten alive
20 November 1999
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Blazing a trail
20 November 1999
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Disastrous Discovery
20 November 1999
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Ignorance is bliss
20 November 1999
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Making notes
20 November 1999
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Masters of symmetry
20 November 1999
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Ticked off
20 November 1999
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Taking the guilt out of rock-and-roll
20 November 1999
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Deep south
20 November 1999
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Mop it up
20 November 1999
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Wannabe Archimedes?
20 November 1999
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Kid chaos
20 November 1999
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Prophets of doom
20 November 1999
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Life on the edge
20 November 1999
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Get real
20 November 1999
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Mystery of the missing atmosphere
20 November 1999
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Seeing red
20 November 1999
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Your good health . . .
13 November 1999
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How termite head-bangers outwit a fungus
13 November 1999
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Too little, too late
13 November 1999
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Speedy sorting
13 November 1999
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Dirty dealing
13 November 1999
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US gives Kyoto the cold shoulder
13 November 1999
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No sweat
13 November 1999
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The road ahead
13 November 1999
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Films for free
13 November 1999
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Meaty matters
13 November 1999
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Jog your memory . . . go for a long run
13 November 1999
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Crunch time for cancer
13 November 1999
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God on their side
13 November 1999
Heart patients fared better when strangers prayed
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Big breakfast
13 November 1999
Crack open an egg and cure a disease
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Lone molecule shrinks mighty memory
13 November 1999
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Sticking point
13 November 1999
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The colour of money
13 November 1999
Sony gambles on its "blue" video recorders being a massive hit
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Leave your mark
13 November 1999
A single fingerprint can make lockers secure
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Who needs to know?
13 November 1999
Confusion reigns over the reporting of gene therapy deaths
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Talking spam
13 November 1999
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Clever mums
13 November 1999
Why having children really is a smart move
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Hot jacket
13 November 1999
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It's a wrap
13 November 1999
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Microwave motor
13 November 1999
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Keeping it clean
13 November 1999
Bug-busting polymers could save patients' lives
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Struggling crops can now get that extra help
13 November 1999
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Spring-loaded spies
13 November 1999
Bouncing robots could become a cop's best friend
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Fewer HIV babies
13 November 1999
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Widening the net
13 November 1999
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Vindicated
13 November 1999
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In the works
13 November 1999
A deadly disease may be evolving in the veins of junkies
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A signal improvement
13 November 1999
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Land of the free
13 November 1999
If you want to see how to manage open access, look to America
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Hidden legacy
13 November 1999
Colourful mice prove our inheritance is more than just DNA
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Under pressure
13 November 1999
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Satellite link-up
13 November 1999
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Words and pictures
13 November 1999
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Dead and gone
13 November 1999
Ice-damaged DNA leaves little chance of a mammoth return
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Roots of history
13 November 1999
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English English
13 November 1999
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Useless if not used
13 November 1999
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Out of control
13 November 1999
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Comet crank?
13 November 1999
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13 November 1999
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Name games
13 November 1999
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Feedback
13 November 1999
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13 November 1999
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Talking with dinos
13 November 1999
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Razors in apples
13 November 1999
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Woods and sinks
13 November 1999
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Road versus rail
13 November 1999
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Farming's hidden costs
13 November 1999
Ian Lowe examines the state of the earth
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Westminster diary
13 November 1999
Comment from Tam Dalyell
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It's a trap
13 November 1999
Death becomes them, says Jonathan Beard, death in amber, that is
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Going, going . . .
13 November 1999
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The Last Word
13 November 1999
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Patent hit for six?
13 November 1999
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Wonderful oil
13 November 1999
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Well connected
13 November 1999
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Hurricane of rock
13 November 1999
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Giant browser
13 November 1999
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Perilous particles
13 November 1999
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An unlikely tail
13 November 1999
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Sun and schizophrenia
13 November 1999
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Smog suits
13 November 1999
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IVF deaths
13 November 1999
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GM deal
13 November 1999
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A week beneath the waves
13 November 1999
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The famished road
13 November 1999
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Bestsellers from Brussels
13 November 1999
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Blame me
13 November 1999
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Face off
13 November 1999
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Deep impact
13 November 1999
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Without consent
13 November 1999
If you made it up, nobody would believe you. Years after the Nuremberg trials revealed the horrors of the Nazi experiments on concentration camp prisoners, one of the world's biggest liberal democracies was still carrying out unethical medi
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The human touch
13 November 1999
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The last supper
13 November 1999
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Home on the rig
06 November 1999
Marine oil drilling has left an unlikely haven for corals
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Inventive resources
06 November 1999
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Sunshine home for retired chimps
06 November 1999
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Pay-per-view Net
06 November 1999
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Heal thyself
06 November 1999
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Knowing the score
06 November 1999
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A free lunch for Britain's surfers
06 November 1999
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Mangroves protect coasts from natural disasters
06 November 1999
Clearing India's mangrove forests has left the coast defenceless
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Woodwork
06 November 1999
Throw out your saws, chisels, lathes and planes…
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The worms that turned into mega-breeders
06 November 1999
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Riding the wave
06 November 1999
Spacecraft could soon be propelled by microwave engines
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Magic sponge
06 November 1999
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Fresh coating
06 November 1999
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Big splash
06 November 1999
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Peace of mind
06 November 1999
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Snowball Earth
06 November 1999
Forget the ice ages you've read about. Hundreds of millions of years ago, the planet was one big frozen wasteland. But if the big chill had never happened, would any of us be here today?
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The molecule that makes more of itself
06 November 1999
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Under a cloud
06 November 1999
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Too young?
06 November 1999
Now even two-year-olds are treated with behaviour drugs
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Monster protest against Frankenscience
06 November 1999
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You can share my hair
06 November 1999
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Walkie-talkie
06 November 1999
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Peeling away the past
06 November 1999
Lasers will lay prehistoric bones bare in no time at all
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New-wave spies
06 November 1999
Electronic eavesdropping is becoming mere child's play
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Cultured meat
06 November 1999
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Shocking habit
06 November 1999
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Dart defences
06 November 1999
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How to sell yourself
06 November 1999
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Talk to the people
06 November 1999
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Why early means surly
06 November 1999
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Fooled 'em again
06 November 1999
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What's the beef?
06 November 1999
There are few certainties in Europe's war over BSE
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You can do it
06 November 1999
The skills of autistic savants are not so special after all
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Terror tactics
06 November 1999
America's primate researchers are threatened with violence
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Head for the hills
06 November 1999
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Sniffing out trouble
06 November 1999
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Dodging rockets
06 November 1999
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Two sides to it
06 November 1999
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The more the merrier
06 November 1999
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Blind faith
06 November 1999
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First fish
06 November 1999
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Thorny solution
06 November 1999
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In the doghouse
06 November 1999
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Jobs for the taking?
06 November 1999
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Confidentially yours
06 November 1999
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About time
06 November 1999
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06 November 1999
Washington diary - Andreas Frew reports
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Business as usual
06 November 1999
Bob Johnstone checks scientific links with Indonesia
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Fund with a focus
06 November 1999
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The last tiger
06 November 1999
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Chemical claptrap
06 November 1999
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The last word
06 November 1999
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Wild Wild West
06 November 1999
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06 November 1999
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06 November 1999
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Liquorice levels
06 November 1999
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The pheasant factor
06 November 1999
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Traffic hoppers
06 November 1999
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Downsized sample
06 November 1999
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Head transplants
06 November 1999
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Beyond the splits
06 November 1999
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Will you get stuck in the Matrix?
06 November 1999
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Gagged killer bugs stay sweet
06 November 1999
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A shot in time
06 November 1999
Vaccines need some neat choreography to eliminate disease
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Silent saboteurs
06 November 1999
Plants make snippets of RNA that take on the meanest viruses
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Call to drop test
06 November 1999
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Proton blame
06 November 1999
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Nile virus recedes
06 November 1999
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Why speeding penguins make breathtaking leaps
06 November 1999
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Nerve repair lets people breathe again
06 November 1999
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The Mozart Effect
06 November 1999
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Made in paper
06 November 1999
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Hot stuff
06 November 1999
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Bestsellers
06 November 1999
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A serious showman
06 November 1999
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Myths for sale
06 November 1999
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Evolve or die
06 November 1999
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What's wrong with the right whale?
06 November 1999
Whale hunting may have been abandoned by most countries in the world, but that doesn't seem to be helping the northern right whale one little bit. Why are they doing so badly, asks Sharon Levy
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On a roll
06 November 1999
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Feedback
06 November 1999