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15 January 2000

Issue 2221

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Height matters

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Jams tomorrow

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When good bugs turn bad

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Gene cheats

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You buzzing at me?

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Height matters

TALL men are more likely to have children than their vertically challenged friends because women find height attractive, a new study shows. The preference may be putting evolutionary pressure on men, even today. In an earlier study, evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar of the University of Liverpool trawled through lonely hearts adverts to find which attributes …

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Portrait of a prion

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Setback for MS

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Gap genes

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Martian gift

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How to make a sound choice . . . twice

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Ice-cold on Charon

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Don't move that dial

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Whistle-blower freed

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Guinea pigs spared

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Long live Galileo

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Bugs on the loose

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Carry on screening

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Technology

Post apocalypse

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Clay spray could spell death for algal blooms

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Synchronised spawning

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Moon magic

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Cholera toxin opens up the brain

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Fatal weakness

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Against the grain

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Smart movers

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Watch this

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Terse nurse

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Clones may not grow old before their time

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Warning light

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Dead giveaway

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Just argue it out

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Lifeless xenon wakes up in the cold

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Technology

Bogus service

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Technology

Fire away

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Technology

51st century man

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Definitely not in your backyard

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Missing the target

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Peckish poultry

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Something in the air

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Fly the flag

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Protect and survive

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Sting in the tail

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Under siege

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Don't catch this

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster Diary

A REPORT about pay and conditions in higher education, published last year, sparked anguish in some quarters, glee in others. The committee responsible for the Independent Review of Higher Education Pay and Conditions consisted of representatives of academic staff trade unions, employers and independent members, and was chaired by Michael Bett, the chairman of telecoms …

Opinion

Eden on the edge

Opinion

Bloody tales

Opinion

Listening to Alex

Opinion

Silicon subcontinent

Opinion

Buy now, pay later

Opinion

An imperfect world

Opinion

Features

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Jams tomorrow

IT'S FRIDAY evening, and you're about to head out of the city. But the traffic news tells you that there's a jam on your normal route. Is it worth taking an alternative? And how far out of your way do you need to go to avoid the snarl-up? If you lived in Duisburg in Germany, …

Features

When good bugs turn bad

Features

Gene cheats

Features

You buzzing at me?

Features

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Blast off

Forget Yuri Gagarin: Britain got there first. So, at least, runs the story in Diana Ross's 1956 The Little Red Engine and the Rocket, now reissued, with Leslie Woods's bold, jazzy illustrations, as an Andre Deutsch Classic. "It's about building a rocket and how the Little Red Engine helps," explained Josh (aged four-and-a-half). "I learned …

Books & Arts

Secrets and lies

Books & Arts

Gold standard

Books & Arts

Treasure trove

Books & Arts

The magnificent nine

Books & Arts

It's a dirty old world

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

COMMUNICATING on the move! That's the advertisers' glib message. Feedback's message is: read the small print on the "roaming" charges that make it possible to use cellphones and e-mail services abroad. Feedback recently tested one of the new European "triband" cellphones that can be switched to "roam" on the frequencies used in the US. It …

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