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18 November 1995

Issue 2004

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Talking up a revolution

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ENIGMA: 849 Bird watching

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Australia the Brave?
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Talking up a revolution

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Total access, no handicap

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Some of our selenium is missing

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Breaking the laws of flight

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Last stand on the Nagara

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You can call me MAK

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The Mine on the Moon

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Think like a muscle

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Don't chuck it, eat it

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ENIGMA: 849 Bird watching

ON Bird Island the straight North-South road from Puffin Rock to Quail Moor passes Nuthatch Wood and Osprey Lake. These four locations divide the road into three sections, each a whole number of miles in length. Rail Marsh is due East of Nuthatch Wood, and its straight-line distances from the four locations on the road …

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Technology

Netropolitan – The Democracy Network of Iran

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Netropolitan – where to find us

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Technology

Silicon cells with a life of their own

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Technology

Tags are a chemist's best friend

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Technology

Tiny plane weathers the storm

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Technology

Goodbye Teletext, hello Net

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Technology

Netropolitan – Privacy International site

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Planting season grows with spray-on coats for crops

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Technology

Volcanic gas kills evil weevils

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The rise and fall of a roving hotspot

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Why California's coastline belongs to the Pacific

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Did Asia rock the human cradle?

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Protein partners tighten their grip on Huntingdon's

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Bendy future for atomic hosepipe

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A chew above the rest

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Humans

The WW2 bombs dumped off western Scotland washing up on beaches

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When suicide is a singular business

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Humble molecule goads immune system into action

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Technology

How to mend a broken heart

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Australia's green dissenters gagged

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France freezes AIDS francs

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Lucky few in line for school Net links

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The last of the biospherians

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Brussels blocks Britain's clean air plan

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Jumbo count pins down roving elephants

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Fears over free access to medical records

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Peregrines are innocent, OK?

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Green radio goes on safari in South Africa

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To count or not to count …

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'Nuclear gold' falls through the floor

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No more special safeguards for biotech drug

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Rabbit fever

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Poop poop!

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Parisian uprising

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Juliet, Juliet, wherefore art thou?

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Canadian home

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Setting sun

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Chemists unite

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Opinion

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Australia the Brave?

IF you live in the northern hemisphere, Australia will seem particularly inviting just now. As winter chills set in, advertisements for holidays promise unspoilt beaches, pristine coral reefs and vast expanses of untouched wilderness. But Paul Ehrlich, the American biology professor who for the past few decades has been the world's leading prophet of ecological …

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It could be you … honest

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Talking up a revolution

THE idea that continents wander across the surface of the Earth and were once joined in one giant landmass may have rocked the geological establishment in the 1960s, but it is fundamentally superficial. That, at least, is the view in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Nagoya University, where researchers are determined to …

Features

Total access, no handicap

Features

Some of our selenium is missing

Features

Breaking the laws of flight

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Last stand on the Nagara

Features

You can call me MAK

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The Mine on the Moon

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Think like a muscle

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Don't chuck it, eat it

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A strong odour of fish

A CLASH over patents this summer raised a bit of an academic stink. It was all about a patent taken out by William Davidson and Sylvia Bartlett of Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John's, and a company called Seabright. As Andy Coghlan reported, the patent involves a means of verifying that processed fish products …

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Power line radiation standards under fire

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A doctor by any other name …

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Life under the ocean wave

Books & Arts

Bridge over troubled waters

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Be there or be square

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Wet, wet, wet

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Stocking filler

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Portrait of an island

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Will Comet Hype miss Earth this time?

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The wonder of it all

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Raining stones

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MacMischief

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That's exntertainment

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Bestsellers from Sydney

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Dive, dive

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Vikings first

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For those in peril on the sea

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Chimps like us

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Brain trials

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All together now

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Trouble with Atlantis: The Sunken Kingdom

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How do you like your fudge?

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Near miss

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Signed and delivered

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Light fantastic

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Garden tales

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Carry on learning: Learning Cyberspace

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All I want for Xmas …

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Slugs, glorious slugs

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Presents, please

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WHO KNOWS where this "news item" originated? It's yet another of those postings on the Internet which reached us via a thoughtful reader, but which cannot be traced back to its source. Sadly, it might well be true. "Some men," it begins, "will go to extraordinary lengths to prove how macho they are. Witness Frenchman …

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