Issue 2100 | Magazine cover date: 20 September 1997

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20 September 1997

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Features

Beirut's big gamble

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Mouse jitters

Opinion

Editorial : A giant leap for lawyers – The race is on to grab a piece of celestial real estate

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Beirut's big gamble

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Features

Coral in deep water

Features

Next stop Mars

Features

2011 A Mars odyssey

Features

Death of a watery world

Features

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Mouse jitters

A SINGLE deleted gene can produce behavioural changes in mice that resemble those caused by psychiatric disorders, scientists say in Cell (vol 90, p 895). Anthony Wynshaw-Boris of the National Institutes of Health near Washington DC and his team found that mice lacking a gene called disheveled-1 are withdrawn and have problems interpreting sensory stimuli. …

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Parched Papua prays for rain

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Private enterprise boldly goes

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Roam alone

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Heavens above

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A heart for heights

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Fat chance of telling when you're full

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Born-again mammoths

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Any old oil

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Ganymede calling Earth, come in please

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Turn left

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High anxiety

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Good eggs

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No shame

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Germ warfare

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All together now

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Best of both worlds

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Outwitting a deadly duo

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Switch it off

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Warning shot

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Nuclear spill

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Slim hopes dashed

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Painless insulin

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Too hot to handle

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Every move you make

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Scum succumbs to fatal attraction

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A very bad atmosphere

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Maize ban faces legal showdown

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Life in the underworld

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Set a virus to catch a virus

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Nose for food

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Keystroke

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Clean meat

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Building on trash

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Eye-opener

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Off to a dirty start

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Second-hand carcinogen

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Colourfast

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Freeze your bridges

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Waving fingers

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In the mind's eye

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Back to the big bang

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Red Planet rendezvous

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Fingers kept crossed at mission control

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Eagles, not trees

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Opinion

Editorial : A giant leap for lawyers – The race is on to grab a piece of celestial real estate

IN California, a car salesman who thinks he owns the Moon and Mars has been doing a brisk trade over the Internet, selling off Manhattan-sized chunks of lunar and Martian real estate. In July came the unlikely news that three men from Yemen, convinced they were the true owners of Mars, were suing NASA for …

Opinion

Editorial : It's the environment, stupid

Opinion

Features

Beirut's big gamble

Leeds AS THE weary inhabitants of Beirut struggle to rebuild their war-ravaged city, evidence is emerging that it faces another threat. In AD 551 ancient Beirut was levelled, not by civil war but by a natural disaster. Some historians think the devastation was wrought by tsunamis triggered by earthquakes elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. But …

Features

Postcards from another planet – For the price of a Hollywood movie, Pathfinder has given us stunningpictures of an alien world

Features

Coral in deep water

Features

Next stop Mars

Features

2011 A Mars odyssey

Features

Death of a watery world

Features

Thistle diary :

Westminster IS the university funding system in Britain "creaking dangerously", as Alison Motluk reports leading educationalists as saying ( This Week, 2 August, p 11 )? The hardest-hitting section of Ron Dearing's long-awaited review of higher education called for an independent body of academics and industrialists to be set up "as soon as possible" to …

Forum

Forum : Dishing the dirt on pollution

Forum

ANTIPODES : All at sea with ballast water

Forum

Review : Rumpy pumpy

Books & Arts

Forum : Going nuts in cyberspace

Forum

Review : Greening the offices

Books & Arts

Review : It's a scoop

Books & Arts

Review : Future works

Books & Arts

Review : On and on and on and on . . .

Books & Arts

Review : The nutty professor

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from London

Books & Arts

Review : Snake man

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Review : Tech rage

Books & Arts

Review : To the Sun and back

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

LAST WEEK we published the first of the winning entries to the Feedback Summer Competition, in which readers were invited to suggest how an unlimited power to genetically engineer people, animals and plants might be used. Here are the remaining winning ideas. A womb with a zip, for simplified and pain-free childbirth. A St Bernard …

Regulars

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This week's magazine

20 September 1997

On the cover

Beirut's big gamble

Postcards from another planet – For the price of a Hollywood movie, Pathfinder has given us stunningpictures of an alien world

Coral in deep water

Next stop Mars

2011 A Mars odyssey

Death of a watery world

Table of contents

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Mouse jitters

Parched Papua prays for rain

Private enterprise boldly goes

Roam alone

Heavens above

A heart for heights

Fat chance of telling when you're full

Born-again mammoths

Any old oil

Ganymede calling Earth, come in please

Turn left

High anxiety

Good eggs

No shame

Germ warfare

All together now

Best of both worlds

Outwitting a deadly duo

Switch it off

Warning shot

Nuclear spill

Slim hopes dashed

Painless insulin

Too hot to handle

Every move you make

Scum succumbs to fatal attraction

A very bad atmosphere

Maize ban faces legal showdown

Life in the underworld

Set a virus to catch a virus

Nose for food

Keystroke

Clean meat

Building on trash

Eye-opener

Off to a dirty start

Second-hand carcinogen

Colourfast

Freeze your bridges

Waving fingers

In the mind's eye

Back to the big bang

Red Planet rendezvous

Fingers kept crossed at mission control

Eagles, not trees

Opinion

Editorial : A giant leap for lawyers – The race is on to grab a piece of celestial real estate

Editorial : It's the environment, stupid

Features

Beirut's big gamble

Postcards from another planet – For the price of a Hollywood movie, Pathfinder has given us stunningpictures of an alien world

Coral in deep water

Next stop Mars

2011 A Mars odyssey

Death of a watery world

More

Thistle diary :

Forum : Dishing the dirt on pollution

ANTIPODES : All at sea with ballast water

Review : Rumpy pumpy

Forum : Going nuts in cyberspace

Review : Greening the offices

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