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11 July 1998

Issue 2142

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Cupid's arrow is tipped with love potion

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Patient heal thyself?

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Satisfaction guaranteed

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All about Adam

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Water gets weird

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Cupid's arrow is tipped with love potion

THE "love darts" that the common garden snail, Helix aspersa, shoots into its partner's skin during mating are coated with a pheromone that helps ensure its sperm are successful. The sharp calcareous darts are exchanged between hermaphrodite snail partners in a prelude to several hours of mating. Now, in a study to appear in a …

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DNA diet

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Chicken supreme

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Vive la différence

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Galactic shells

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The big thaw

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Technology

Airship anniversary

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Petal power

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Cold turkey

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Healing the brain

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Brave new worlds

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Turtles trawled

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Back to square one

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Guitarists made to fret

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We only added the genes...

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Pyrrhic victory

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Coming up for air

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Move over, Ronaldo

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Silent but speedy

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You won't find a spot on these plants

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Speedy catalysis

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Speedy catalysis

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Beastly behemoths

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Technology

A night at the movies

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Technology

Music by numbers

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Technology

Spot the widget

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Cold start

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Mean microbes

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Danger zone

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Next stop Mars

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One small step

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Organs without donors

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Secondhand shoes

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Smoke for strokes

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Loud ads defeated

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It does it all

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Move not a muscle

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Almost unparalleled

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Mostly in the mind

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Stand by for savings

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Decaff makes a strong solution for Silicon Valley

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The nuclear bug

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Food fight

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Premature birth repeats the Dolly mixture

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About turn

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Lead levels down

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Opinion

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Patient heal thyself?

TENDENTIOUS. Preposterous. A failure of peer review. These are not words that scientists normally use to describe the work of other researchers. The recipients are two American psychologists, whose study has firmly put the cat among the pigeons by claiming that most of the therapeutic effects of expensive antidepressant pills like Prozac can be mimicked …

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Sunny side up

OUR WORLD is ruled by the Sun. Its life-giving energy warms the Earth, fuels our crops and drives the weather. This much we can take for granted. But now signs are emerging that the Sun has a more subtle influence, too, which arises from regular changes in its activity. Variations in the amount of energy …

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Satisfaction guaranteed

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All about Adam

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Water gets weird

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Population bombshell

FOR the past million years, the world's human population has grown almost continuously. But demographers have identified three great population surges, each following technological revolutions that dramatically increased the number of people that the world could sustain. The first revolution was the invention of tool making , which occurred gradually around the world between a …

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Think chick

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The big R

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Psyched up

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Telling tales is good

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By the book

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Clone alone

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Gene watch

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Set in stone

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Feedback

HOW MANY readers have been spammed by messages apparently emanating from the WorldTouch Network? The promotional e-mail bearing this company's name is the most infuriating of the many spams that regularly arrive in the ��è��Ƶ offices. Last week, Feedback received it nine times in two days, having already received it hundreds of times over …

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