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11 April 1998

Issue 2129

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Monster sperm

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For those in peril

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Partners in crime

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Monster sperm

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Fellini with flippers

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Drinking by numbers

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To infinity and beyond

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Technology

For those in peril

On 10 April 1912 the Titanic steamed out of Southampton towards its fatal encounter with a North Atlantic iceberg. Even 86 years on, the disaster, in which 1522 people died, still grips the imagination. James Cameron's film Titanic won 11 Oscars in Los Angeles last month. Full details of the awards are at http://www.oscar.com . …

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Horns of a dilemma

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When it's not so good to talk

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Test tube foals

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Change of tack

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Name game

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You are here

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Bolshie bees have mean genes

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Feather mops

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Clean burn

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Full house

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Pest control

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Cracking RNA

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Blooming amazing

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Barren mice

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Uphill all the way

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The awful power of silence

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A real waste

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Sound like Satchmo

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Little big disc

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Too close for comfort

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Searching questions

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Corroding colours

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`Blind' radar scans marsh for heap of old rubbish

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Toilets to go

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Technology

Doubles all round

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Technology

Kinder bullets

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Technology

Call for help

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Red alert

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Why farmers should love the dark

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Off the wall

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Why have the birds gone quiet?

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This way up

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A flying start

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It's the fuzz

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Sticking point

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Coral killer

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Driving blind

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Spam payback

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Stuck in Havana

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Getting heavy

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TB hard cases are revealed in a flash

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Hit squad

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Hold the mayo...

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Air emergency

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Opinion

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Partners in crime

AS THE legal net closes in around the tobacco companies, there are definite signs of panic in the air. In the US, smokers are being chased out of offices and public places with a zeal once reserved for rooting out communists, while one former smoker seeking damages has called tobacco companies "the most criminal, disgusting, …

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Monster sperm

DEEP within the darkened CAVE, the giant sperm looms. Its monstrous tail curls around and around, snarled in a series of ferocious knots. Under an ordinary microscope, the tangled tail would be an impenetrable blob. But here in the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications near Chicago, a supercomputer first …

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Fellini with flippers

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Drinking by numbers

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To infinity and beyond

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Return of the gas guzzler

WHEN it comes to fuel efficiency in cars, a well worn adage seems to apply—what we are gaining on the swings we are losing on the roundabout. I've been reading a report—unexcitingly titled Fuel Consumption Project—prepared for the Department of Primary Industries and Energy by an impressive technical team from the CSIRO, Melbourne University, the …

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Animal antics

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Remapping Earth

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Baby rules

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Coming a cropper

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Pilot dropped

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Obvious, really

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Fact after fiction

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This is the end

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Murdering Montana

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Collected works

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from Oxford

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A picture of confusion

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Sushi to go

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Feedback

ON 7 MARCH we expressed our surprise that the website of the Oriental Institute Research Archives only lists "human" authors. What other kind of authors are there, we wondered. Now we learn of a prominent herpetologist who has published a number of papers coauthored with his dog and his chicken. Consider, for example, "Use of …

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