Issue 2097 | Magazine cover date: 30 August 1997

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30 August 1997

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Features

Cracks of doom

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Thou shalt not…

Opinion

Editorial : Selling under false colours

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Cracks of doom

Features

Rays of hope

Features

Breaking the heat barrier

Features

Deep waters

Features

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Thou shalt not…

Budapest PEOPLE who want to engineer genes for a living will soon have to join a professional society and follow a code of conduct. Ray Spier, a member of a European task force on the public perceptions of biotechnology, has drawn up a code that exhorts biotechnologists to "bring benefit to society, the public and …

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HIV origins

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Fluorine in space

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Nectar lovers

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Fishing lights

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Cancer gene

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Poisoner turns over a new leaf

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Look, I can speak properly

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Dreams as big as an ocean

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A monkey could make it

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Lambda to the slaughter

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Feeling the heat

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Great balls of power

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Buckymedicine

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Hydride power

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Endangered or minke, sir?

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Bust to boom

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Stop feeding the bugs

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The hole that will not mend

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Prize seaweed

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Cleaner waters

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Making waves

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Robots lead the blind

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Making the pips squeak

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Dry, clean and green

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Good news for ducks

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Jurassic pink?

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A sound idea

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Pirates sunk

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Reflected glory

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Volcanic sneezes

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Pigs move closer to the operating table

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Mobile emergencies

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Brain in the round

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Greener fields

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Foot fault

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Fallen eagles

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Heartsick

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Dining with the enemy

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Lethal hybrid decimates harvest

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The X factor

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Promising the Earth

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Seven days in orbit

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Keep in shape with Irina Ponomareva

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Tuned in, banged up

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Opinion

Editorial : Selling under false colours

THE Japanese and South Korean governments should be thoroughly ashamed that they are allowing a trade in endangered species to go unchallenged. Tests of whale meat on sale in local shops show that part of it is being sold on false pretences. Only very limited amounts of minke whale caught under Japan's scientific whaling programme …

Opinion

Editorial : Chill winds in Montreal - How can governments agree when their expert advisors cannot?

Opinion

Features

Cracks of doom

Austin, Texas EROSION, wear and tear, breakdown and decay-there is a universal pattern in this world. All that lives dies, and all that is put together eventually comes apart. Even the seemingly indestructible pyramids of Egypt, once smooth and geometrically perfect, have been broken down by wind and sand, the blows of looters and tourists, …

Features

Rays of hope

Features

Breaking the heat barrier

Features

Deep waters

Features

Review : Collected works

WHEN women researchers write on female evolution, it's time to pay attention. Given the bias against women both as science professionals and agents in prehistory, The Evolving Female (edited by Mary Ellen Morbeck, Alison Galloway and Adrienne Zihlman, Princeton University Press, £19.95/$27.95, ISBN 0691027471) and Women in Human Evolution (edited by Lori Hager, Routledge, £15.99, …

Books & Arts

Forum : In the name of purity

Forum

Forum : Strange bedfellows

Forum

Forum : Washington diary

Forum

Australasian : Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, whirr, whirr, whirr

Forum

Review : Bright ideas

Books & Arts

Review: Where is thy sting?

Books & Arts

Best sellers : from London

Books & Arts

Review : Sex, war and the pox

Books & Arts

Review : Dying for food

Books & Arts

Review : Gold dust

Books & Arts

Review : Fish breath

Books & Arts

Review : Lies and whispers

Books & Arts

Review : Apocalypse now

Books & Arts

Review : Lesbian gulls cry foul

Books & Arts

Review : This mortal coil

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

FEEDBACK is delighted to hear that psychotherapy can help the long-term unemployed to find jobs. More than 200 people who had been out of work for over two years underwent cognitive training to improve their self-image. Four months later 34 per cent of them had found full-time jobs, according to researchers at the Maudsley Hospital …

Regulars

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This week's magazine

30 August 1997

On the cover

Cracks of doom

Rays of hope

Breaking the heat barrier

Deep waters

Table of contents

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Thou shalt not…

HIV origins

Fluorine in space

Nectar lovers

Fishing lights

Cancer gene

Poisoner turns over a new leaf

Look, I can speak properly

Dreams as big as an ocean

A monkey could make it

Lambda to the slaughter

Feeling the heat

Great balls of power

Buckymedicine

Hydride power

Endangered or minke, sir?

Bust to boom

Stop feeding the bugs

The hole that will not mend

Prize seaweed

Cleaner waters

Making waves

Robots lead the blind

Making the pips squeak

Dry, clean and green

Good news for ducks

Jurassic pink?

A sound idea

Pirates sunk

Reflected glory

Volcanic sneezes

Pigs move closer to the operating table

Mobile emergencies

Brain in the round

Greener fields

Foot fault

Fallen eagles

Heartsick

Dining with the enemy

Lethal hybrid decimates harvest

The X factor

Promising the Earth

Seven days in orbit

Keep in shape with Irina Ponomareva

Tuned in, banged up

Opinion

Editorial : Selling under false colours

Editorial : Chill winds in Montreal - How can governments agree when their expert advisors cannot?

Features

Cracks of doom

Rays of hope

Breaking the heat barrier

Deep waters

More

Review : Collected works

Forum : In the name of purity

Forum : Strange bedfellows

Forum : Washington diary

Australasian : Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, whirr, whirr, whirr

Review : Bright ideas

Review: Where is thy sting?

Best sellers : from London

Review : Sex, war and the pox

Review : Dying for food

Review : Gold dust

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