Issue 2094 | Magazine cover date: 9 August 1997

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9 August 1997

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MATURE male crabs have found a cunning way to out-compete youngsters in mating, say researchers in Japan. Tsunenori Koga and Minoru Murai of Kyushu University in Fukuoka studied the behaviour of the Japanese sand-bubbler crab, Scopimera globosa, over three breeding seasons. The crabs build burrows in mud flats, but small young crabs spend most of …

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Deep roots

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The big squeeze

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Lair of the ice worms

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After the flood

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Targeting the viral outlaws

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Easy rider

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Sounding off at the movies

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If you had a hammer. . .

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China's fires fuel the greenhouse

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Early birds make the most of global warming

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Strawberry fields forever

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Fatal dose

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Vaccine alert

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Staying alive

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Lab plots Europe's interactive future

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Undercover agents

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Moon-based volcanoes turn up the heat

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Health

Outwitting the superbugs

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Health

Eat your charcoal, son

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Air bags for choppers

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Opinion

Editorial : Spooky truth

SO NOW we know: the CIA lied. All those Americans who sighted UFOs in the Fifties and Sixties weren't—as military types claimed at the time—the deluded victims of unusual atmospheric phenomena after all. What they really saw were top-secret US surveillance planes flying at high altitude. The puzzling thing about last weekend's admission by the …

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New York Peter Baring, former chairman of Barings bank, will never forget the name Nick Leeson. From a desk in Singapore, the sandy-haired derivatives trader single-handedly lost £830 million of the bank's money through ill-considered trading in options and futures between July 1992 and February 1995. Barings collapsed, and in a masterpiece of understatement the …

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ON THE INTERNET , people are not always who they seem. The InterNIC, which registers Internet domains (Web site addresses) in the US, recently registered the domain "Resistance-Is-Futile" as a site belonging to Microsoft. Computer users everywhere, especially paranoid ones who had already detected similarities between Microsoft and the Borg from Star Trek, were easily …

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This week's magazine

9 August 1997

On the cover

Calculated gambling

The People's fossils

And now the TV forecast ...

Requiem for the soul

Table of contents

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Sly old devils

Hotting up

In the distance

Deep roots

Bird's eye view

It's good to goo-goo

Clone alone

Crowded space

Beetles on the attack

Can we crack Europa's icy secrets?

The big squeeze

It came from outer space

Lair of the ice worms

Prepare to repair

After the flood

Dodgy decisions?

Targeting the viral outlaws

Allergy therapy

Methane alarm

Easy rider

Delightful diesel

Sounding off at the movies

Ducks flock to robo-sheepdog trials

If you had a hammer. . .

China's fires fuel the greenhouse

Bad sport

Early birds make the most of global warming

Power crazy

Deadly damp

Get your fix

Quick fix

Rabbit payouts

Dumbing down

Burning bright

Wet, wet, dry . . .

This video will self-destruct after 10 hours

Strawberry fields forever

Fatal dose

Vaccine alert

Staying alive

Lab plots Europe's interactive future

Undercover agents

Moon-based volcanoes turn up the heat

Health

Outwitting the superbugs

Health

Eat your charcoal, son

Air bags for choppers

Opinion

Editorial : Spooky truth

Editorial : Tilting at pylons - It's time to pull the plug on the debate about cancer and power lines

Features

Calculated gambling

The People's fossils

And now the TV forecast ...

Requiem for the soul

More

Thistle diary :

Forum : Bacon, listeria and tomato . . .

Review : All life is here . . .

Review : Until the storm

Review : Do no harm

Review : A bloody tale

Review : Bill's way

Review : Scrubbing the future clean

Review : You are entering the human brain

Forum : Wow! Was that ET?

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