Issue 2241 | Magazine cover date: 3 June 2000

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3 June 2000

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We can work it out

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A town like Uruk

THE first urban settlements in the Middle East were thought to have been built by the Sumerian civilisation of southern Mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago. Now, it seems, another civilisation was enjoying city life around the same time, according to finds in north-eastern Syria. Clemens Reichel, an archaeologist at the University of Chicago's Oriental …

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Going back to nature down on the farm

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Second sight

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Early risers

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Melanoma vaccine

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Back to the lab

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The body that never was

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California calls in the dust detectives

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Bees turn up the heat on invaders

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Accelerated decay

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Bury your dead

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Virus on the wing

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The way it was

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Vanishing trick

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Hugely corny

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Caught red-handed

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Keeping tags on it

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Travel writing

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Droids are cooking

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Reversal of fortune

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Technology

Pennies for your thoughts

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Sweet symphony

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Listen up

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Thumbs up for nettles

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Grow old with mum and dad

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Electric muscles up the pace

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Look at it this way

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Making waves

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Technology

Choose who's talking

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In excess

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Stop the bleeding

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Out of harm's way

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Cracking up

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Technology

Explosive clean-up

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Technology

Way to glow

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Jumping genes

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Leatherbacks in trouble

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Equal emissions

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Deadly slow

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Raising a stink

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Rockets or rainforest

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Opinion

Turn back the pollen clock

ONE day last fall I was photographing some ground cover in my neighbourhood, carefully staying on the public sidewalk. The groundsel tree Baccharis was growing all over the place. A gentleman came out of his front door. "What in the world could be worth photographing in my front yard?" he asked. He had a point. …

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Great start, now for a change

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Hold that sneeze

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When the wind blows

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We can work it out

ON GOOD FRIDAY two years ago, an event took place in Northern Ireland that many thought they would never live to see. After months of negotiation, years of conflict and centuries of mistrust, the various warring parties finally agreed on a power-sharing accord to bring peace to that troubled province. More than thirty years of …

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Rhythm and blues

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So you want to be an expert

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Before the big bang

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Wet and wild

Go just three days without water, and your body is in serious trouble. We need the stuff, and not just for physical sustenance. Fresh water provides us with "metaphor, power and enchantment", as The River's Voice, a collection of more than 180 poems from both sides of the Atlantic, so beautifully reminds us. Chosen by …

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OUR favourite report is out again—the Department of Trade and Industry's Home Accident Surveillance System (based on 1998 data). It gives figures for the causes of domestic accidents reported in admissions to a selected group of British hospitals, and then gives extrapolated estimates for the country as a whole. If you remember our item on …

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This week's magazine

3 June 2000

On the cover

We can work it out

Rhythm and blues

So you want to be an expert

Before the big bang

Table of contents

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A town like Uruk

Going back to nature down on the farm

Second sight

Early risers

Melanoma vaccine

Back to the lab

The body that never was

California calls in the dust detectives

Bees turn up the heat on invaders

Accelerated decay

Bury your dead

Virus on the wing

The way it was

Vanishing trick

Hugely corny

Caught red-handed

Keeping tags on it

Travel writing

Droids are cooking

Reversal of fortune

Technology

Pennies for your thoughts

Sweet symphony

Listen up

Thumbs up for nettles

Grow old with mum and dad

Electric muscles up the pace

Look at it this way

Making waves

Technology

Choose who's talking

In excess

Stop the bleeding

Out of harm's way

Cracking up

Technology

Explosive clean-up

Technology

Way to glow

Jumping genes

Leatherbacks in trouble

Equal emissions

Deadly slow

Raising a stink

Rockets or rainforest

Opinion

Turn back the pollen clock

Great start, now for a change

Westminster Diary

Science Needs You

Life

Scary monsters super creeps

Hold that sneeze

When the wind blows

Features

We can work it out

Rhythm and blues

So you want to be an expert

Before the big bang

More

Wet and wild

We do voodoo far too well

Bestsellers from Oxford

Whip up a froth

Regulars

Feedback

The Last Word

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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