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This week's magazine

2 January 1993

Issue 1854

New Scientist issue 1854 cover

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Table of contents

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Letters: Old sackbutt

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Letters: Trolley junkies

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Letters: Trolley junkies

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Letters: Ping!

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Careers: In search of the right stuff - How do companies nowadays tell if you are the right person for the job?

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Feedback

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Forum: When old quicksilver slowed down - Donald Gould thinks he knows why there is a schism between the arts and sciences

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Thistle Diary: Hot potatoes and cold reactors - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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Letters: Easy to compare

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Letters: Give us a song

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Letters: Give us a song

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Letters: Moving point

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Review: A glimpse of the future and past imperfect

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Review: The indiscrete charms of the pygmy chimp

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Forum: Academic double standards - Martyn Kelly has a research paper rejected by a learned journal

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Stargazers of the Orient: A remarkable map of the stars has survived more than 2000 years to give us a picture of how Chinese astromomers saw the sky

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Review: Bring back bedside manners

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An explosive start for plants: Plants get up to some ingenious tricks and aerial acrobatics to ensure their survival

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Review: Prophets not without honour

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Review: Bringing up Baby at the zoo

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Review: The confessions of a teenage genius

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Review: Enquire within

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Earth

When the tide comes in

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Review: A lavish spread for nature lovers

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Pay attention, Albert Einstein!

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Technology: Amsterdam's locks slide open on a water cushion

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Technology: Rival music systems hit the high street

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Technology: Telephone answers

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A longer life for drugs: Pharmaceuticals companies complain that their costs keep going up while the effective life of their patents goes down. A new regulation in the European Community might make all the difference

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Technology: Horse dung may move sewage mountain

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Technology: The clothes that make a killing

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Technology: Mapping the risk of breast cancer

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Technology: Online for a cartoon heaven: from Andy Capp to If . . .

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Science: Hot dust threatens ozone above tropics

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Science: Blood test guages heart attack risk

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Science: Where have all the fossil flowers gone?

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Science: When algal mats ruled the land

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Science: Who says size isn't everything?

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Europe: under new management - This week, two new commissioners take charge of the European Community's research programme. Many scientists want the new bosses to consider radical change.

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Science: A million ways to wrap a rubber band round a potato

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Save our subs

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Diet for old age

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Off the hook

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Late bloom for crystal garden

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Hot ship

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Potted plant riots

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Forest fungus

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Environment

Spain's baboons heed the call of the wild

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Will Britain turn its back on wave power?

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Dirty habits plague Russia's health

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Wet, wet, wet . . . the story of 1992

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Reactor in space threatens observation satellites

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Crystal cornfields of chemical 'Van Gogh'

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In my opinion, Mr Waldegrave ..

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Where's the beef?

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How to survive in Australia's bush war

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More fumes loom on Europe's horizon

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Europe plays musical chairs with research chiefs

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Veto kills off Europe's high-tech TV

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Comment: 1993 - a Europe newly divided

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Comment: A hot potato

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China's new cultural Revolution

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