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8 July 2000

Issue 2246

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Is anyone in there?

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All for one!

Features

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Give that bird a mouse

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They've seen a ghost

Features

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Bad eggs

People in the north of Norway have been warned by the country's food safety agency to cut back on eating seagull eggs because they are contaminated with high levels of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The eggs are considered a delicacy in Tromsø and the Lofoten Islands. Some people eat up to 40 a year, but …

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Protection for rats

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Cool the warming

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Don't blame the superwaifs

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Dusted off

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Double whammy

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Scuppernonged

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Too receptive

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Huntington's hope

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What a corker

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Hula counter

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Dangerous work

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Double trouble

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Cancer killers

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Bugs make life a little better for children with AIDS

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The kindest cut

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Technology

A matter of depth

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Language of life

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A hole is born . . .

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Blast is past

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Humans

The great escape

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Pass it on

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Technology

Sparkling motorways

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Technology

Lullabies to order

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Technology

Powered by fat

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A wetter Mars

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Mind

Born with the munchies

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Mind

So you think you're in love?

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Mind

Mind phantoms

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Never miss a beat

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They've got the nerve to control incontinence

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Bad vibrations

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Blocking malaria

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More tests on hands-frees

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No safe place

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Young, but mad

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Indian moonshot

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Humans

Life or death

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Who's flying this thing?

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Beware the birds

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A chip for an eye

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Opinion

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Planning for a genetic future

AUSTRALIA now has a national biotechnology strategy. It was launched in Brisbane earlier this week by science minister Nick Minchin at the annual conference of the Australian Biotechnology Association (ABA). He told about 300 delegates that the Federal government was committing more than A$30 million to support biotechnology. The measures were all in place, he …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster Diary

Opinion

The Green Revolution turns sour

Opinion

Is it life, Jim?

Opinion

Man on a mission

Opinion

Get talking

Opinion

Who you gonna call?

Opinion

Features

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Is anyone in there?

IT COULD happen to you. A knock on the door in the dead of night. A sober-faced police officer saying, "I'm sorry, but there's been an accident." A surreal rush to the hospital, where your loved one lies in a coma, somewhere between being and nothingness. Months pass without the patient regaining consciousness. The doctors …

Features

All for one!

Features

Give that bird a mouse

Features

They've seen a ghost

Features

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Life is beautiful

Invited to a festival, film-maker Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) was assured that the organiser would avoid using the word "scientific" in describing his films. "Avant-garde" was a far better word. So what exactly was Painlevé filming? As editors Andy Masaki Bellows, Marina McDougall and Brigitte Berg show in Science is Fiction, Painlevé was one of the …

Books & Arts

Smashing buildings

Books & Arts

The concept's the thing

Books & Arts

Identity crisis

Books & Arts

A Consumer's Guide to GM Food by Alan McHugh

Books & Arts

Warmongering

Books & Arts

Glass from past

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

A GROUP of chemists at the University of West Florida recently found themselves in a rerun of a famous urban myth. Readers may remember the one about the hospital cleaner who supposedly unplugged a patient's life-support system so that she could use the power socket to plug in her vacuum cleaner. The chemists in Florida …

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