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4 September 1999

Issue 2202

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Fantastic voyager

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Own goal

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The cruellest irony

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Feeling just fine

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Own goal

INSULIN itself triggers the immune system to destroy insulin-producing cells in the pancreas during early-onset diabetes. Susan Wong of Yale University genetically engineered diabetes-causing T cells from mice to turn blue when activated. Exposing these cells to a soup of protein fragments from insulin-producing cells, Wong and her colleagues found that a particular region of …

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Short straw

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Come on down

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Pacemakers that run on light

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Brisk swimmers

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No quick fix

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It's a pig's life

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Technology

All that junk

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Hot solution

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Playing safe

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Pure and clear

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Far from fragrant

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Polluting plants

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Nodding off

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Think drink

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Brain boost

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Warning lights

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The bigger picture

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Technology

Wired taste

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Technology

What a picture

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Technology

Safe talk

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Received wisdom

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Indonesia primed to go up in smoke

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Humans

Gamblers know when to cash in

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Humans

Together again

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The heat was on

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Hair route

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What a blow

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Bugs in your hair

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Them bones

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Back from the dead

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Dolly's mixture

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X-ray vision

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Bug bites early

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STDs in cyberspace

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Humans

Divided roles

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Humans

Sexism takes its toll

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Humans

Nothing to shout about

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ET was here

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Too little sleep

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Canada's ice man

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Waiting for NASA

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Fossil sheds new light on ammonites

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Jam paranoia

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Toy atom

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Opinion

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The cruellest irony

COULD doctors testing a polio vaccine in Africa in the late 1950s have unintentionally started the AIDS epidemic? Seven years after this conspiracy-style theory was first floated, the publication of The River, a new book by the writer Edward Hooper, is forcing scientists to take this disturbing possibility seriously again. Hooper spent nine years researching …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster Diary

Opinion

The road to safety

Opinion

A right to play

Opinion

Hanging by a whisker

Opinion

Last days of Mir

Opinion

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Fantastic voyager

LYING ON A BENCH in Robert Winglee's lab is a small quartz tube laced with thin metal wires that looks suspiciously like a light bulb. It even casts a pale glow on Winglee's face when he turns it on. But switch it on in the darkness of space, and it will pump out a giant, …

Features

The race is on...

Features

Feeling just fine

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Basic instinct

THREE centuries ago, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz had a dream. The German philosopher and mathematician believed that all rational thinking could be described with a formula. He imagined that by inventing an alphabet of human thought—a system of characters for irreducible concepts—and then combining these in a calculus of reasoning, mathematicians would be able to solve …

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Not again!

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Feedback

MEETINGS of psychology associations always produce a crop of interesting paper titles, and last week's conference of the American Psychological Association was no exception. Papers presented included: "The impact of time pressure on condom use" and (for those occasions when the time pressures get too much) "Brief female condom skills building intervention for women". Then …

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