Issue 2133 | Magazine cover date: 9 May 1998

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9 May 1998

Issue 2133

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Us and them

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Clone Alone

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Into the clone zone

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Bigger is better

A CENTURY ago, Edward Drinker Cope noticed that the average body mass of North American mammals seemed to have increased steadily in the course of their evolution, which he attributed to an innate evolutionary drive towards larger size. Cope's rule was widely accepted for decades, but several recent studies have found no growth trend in …

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Solar tornadoes

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Nibble and burn

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Clouds matter

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Fearless frogs have hearts of stone

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Taken to heart

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TB jab delay may kill eighty million

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Under pressure

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Rocketing costs

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Bang go your ears

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Just hot air

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Suicidal brain cells can be saved

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Launchpad comeback

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Technology

Finders keepers

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Bumbling bees

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Space rats make bad mothers

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Hot waters

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Trial by register

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Fairground rides go to your head

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Precious scum

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Bright future

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Being there

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Web heads

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Superior standard

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Wired video

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Cool and compressed

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The ascent of medallion man

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Experts clash over persistence of pesticide

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He who pays the piper...

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Chemical hypocrisy

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Dolly helps the infertile

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You want to clone? Go ahead

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Space

Whoops, apocalypse

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Lasting damage

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Side effect

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Muscling in

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Cool chocolate

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A plague on arthritis

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Technology

The cap fits

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Technology

Forever pitch

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Technology

Copyright code

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Life on the edge

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Keep off the grass

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Fingers crossed...

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Opinion

Accidents will happen

THE International Space Station is in money trouble again. An independent assessment has just shown that $7.3 billion is going to have to be added to the $17.4 billion the US has budgeted for the project. With a similar amount coming from Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and other members of the 16-nation partnership …

Opinion

Hold the front page

Opinion

Features

Easy does it

MIDNIGHT in Berlin, one night in the summer of 1753. A weary man in his fifties, well-dressed but unshaven, sits alone in his dark, quiet study. With trembling hands, he leafs through a thin booklet entitled Essay on Cosmology. It is a manuscript that has shattered his life. Three years earlier, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis …

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Agents from Albia

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Us and them

Features

Clone Alone

Features

We ask they answer

Features

Into the clone zone

Features

Welcome to the valley of the genes

MOVE over Silicon Valley. Genome Valley is on the way. With the mapping and sequencing of the human genome well advanced, biotechnology will be the basis of the next boom industry and Australia should not miss out as it did with the Information Technology revolution. That was the heart of the message delivered in eloquent …

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Hearty foods

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Twin triumph

Books & Arts

Look behind you

Forum

The feelgood factor

Forum

from Amsterdam

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Collected works

Books & Arts

The sacred and the mundane

Books & Arts

Giants go on the record

Books & Arts

Cosmic rave

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All work, no play

Books & Arts

No mean feat

Books & Arts

Life, but not as we know it

Books & Arts

Genes in the family

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Imagineers

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

THANKS to everyone who responded so fulsomely to our request for ideas about things to do with unwanted CDs (18 April). We had assumed that the range of possibilities would be fairly limited, but it now appears that CDs are among the most useful things that exist, second only to hairgrips and Swiss penknives. We …

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This week's magazine

9 May 1998

On the cover

Easy does it

Agents from Albia

Us and them

Clone Alone

We ask they answer

Into the clone zone

Table of contents

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Bigger is better

Solar tornadoes

Nibble and burn

Clouds matter

Fearless frogs have hearts of stone

Taken to heart

TB jab delay may kill eighty million

Under pressure

Rocketing costs

Bang go your ears

Just hot air

Suicidal brain cells can be saved

Launchpad comeback

Technology

Finders keepers

Technology

. . .

Technology

. . .

Technology

. . .

Bumbling bees

Space rats make bad mothers

Hot waters

Trial by register

Fairground rides go to your head

Precious scum

Bright future

Being there

Web heads

Superior standard

Wired video

Cool and compressed

The ascent of medallion man

Experts clash over persistence of pesticide

He who pays the piper...

Chemical hypocrisy

Dolly helps the infertile

You want to clone? Go ahead

Space

Whoops, apocalypse

Lasting damage

Side effect

Muscling in

Cool chocolate

A plague on arthritis

Technology

The cap fits

Technology

Forever pitch

Technology

Copyright code

Life on the edge

Keep off the grass

Fingers crossed...

Opinion

Accidents will happen

Hold the front page

Features

Easy does it

Agents from Albia

Us and them

Clone Alone

We ask they answer

Into the clone zone

More

Welcome to the valley of the genes

Hearty foods

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