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6 February 1999

Issue 2172

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You can't beat experience

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Give them credit for some brains

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Half the story

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You can't beat experience

Features

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Eco-nomics

Features

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Out of this world

Features

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Cunning plumbing

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The Lopsided Universe

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Give them credit for some brains

NEANDERTHALS may have looked stocky and brutish, but weight for weight, modern humans are just as robust. That's the conclusion of a researcher who borrowed techniques from structural engineers to measure the strength of hominid and Neanderthal bones. Given Neanderthals' wide, heavy bones, most anthropologists had assumed that their lives were dominated by brute force …

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Chimp version of HIV finally linked to human epidemic

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Butterfly effect

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Stars burst

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Borrowed time

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Iced bugs

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Sour taste

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Healthy mouth, healthy baby

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To the rescue ...

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Caesareans are safer

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Space station blues

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Growing problem

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Poisoned seas

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Painful choices

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Knocked out in the quarter finals, but still they get the trophy

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Floppy snaps

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Great shakes

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Wrong number . . .

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Technology

Underdogs up in arms

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Last orders

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Send in the clouds

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Wind breakers

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Earth

The company of wolves

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It's catching

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Mixed feelings

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Chainsaw massacre

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Aw, shucks

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Bright idea

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Getting it taped

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The secret of zone 14

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A nightmare revisited

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Turned on itself

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Cut the bull

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Global bug alert

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First for GM food

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Warming to carbon cuts

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Escape from Earth

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Pretty poor privacy may lurk inside processors

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The one to watch

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Technology

Violence blackout

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Technology

The mains man

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Technology

Magic marker

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Cherry aid

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The female gene

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Against the grain

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I spy with my duck's eye

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Opinion

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Half the story

STRANGE though it might seem given the billions spent on HIV research since the early 1980s, it is only this week that we have finally found out exactly where the virus came from. HIV-1 was first found in western central Africa and researchers have always suspected that the virus passed to humans from chimpanzees. But …

Opinion

Features

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You can't beat experience

IF you are in the first eight years of your career and you have been doing the same job for two years or more, it's time to ask yourself if you are getting the right experiences to develop and move upwards, or maybe onwards. Opportunities to develop new skills, especially in high technology industries, are …

Features

Eco-nomics

Features

Out of this world

Features

Cunning plumbing

Features

The Lopsided Universe

Features

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BEFORE Christmas, when attention was focused elsewhere and bombs rained down on Baghdad, the European Union's agricultural ministers voted to ban the use of the antibiotics bacitracin zinc, spiramycin, tylosin phosphate and virginiamycin as growth promoters in animal feed. The aim of the ban is not only to limit the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria on …

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Hounded to death

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Mind on paper

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The truth about Tibet

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For cable guys

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Fly by the century

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A long time coming

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Don't let it die

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Blithe spirit

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Faraday did it with a candle

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from San Francisco

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The lion king

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