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19 August 2000

Issue 2252

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Pot of gold

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Octopussy isn't choosy

Opinion

Driving us to drink?
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Pot of gold

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The enemy within

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Radio Blast

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One small step for fish, one giant leap for us

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Life

That's the way the money goes

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Octopussy isn't choosy

THE deadly blue-ringed octopuses of Octopussy fame aren't very discriminating when it comes to certain pursuits. The males try to mate with either sex, say Mary Cheng and Roy Caldwell of the University of California at Berkeley. However, encounters between males do not last as long as those involving a female, and no sperm appears …

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Triumph for diversity

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Deep breather

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Rainy old Med

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Past blast

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Fish bite back

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Technology

Blazing trails

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Multiple choice

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Cheer up

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All rounder

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Sniffing out fakes

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See no evil, speak no evil

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Flight from reality

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Old cells, new tricks

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Making more of yourself

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Voice from the grave

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Technology

Safer tanks

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Technology

Not so speedy now

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Highly cultured

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Back to the source

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Everything you ever wanted to know about stem cells

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Technology

Antipollutant on a plate

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Concorde grounded

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Clusters are go

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Clean burn

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Listen up

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Knockout blow

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Factory of life gives up its secrets

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Shuttle to test space junk broom

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Life

Wild things

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Tasteless

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Life

The naked chef

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Life

Play gets pandas in the mood

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Life

Baby snatchers

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Life

Victory turns mice into men

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It's just business, says Roslin

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Destination Mir

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Put it to the vote

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Opinion

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Driving us to drink?

AUSTRALIAN drinking water standards are arbitrary and not well enforced, according to a recent report by the Productivity Commission. Every one of us drinks water and almost all are at the mercy of a monopoly supplier who decides just how pure our water will be. So it is hard to understand why the report, entitled …

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Westminster Diary

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Wilderness days

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Imagine that

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It's the law

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About time

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Features

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Pot of gold

What's a smashed and burnt piece of pot doing in the company of the world's most ancient gold coins? This fragment of coarse, gritty earthenware, on display in the British Museum's coins and medals room, is more valuable than the fabulous golden treasures. It may be a bit of old rubbish retrieved from a dump …

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The enemy within

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Radio Blast

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One small step for fish, one giant leap for us

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Life

That's the way the money goes

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Whole Earth book

Geologists, says John McPhee, are like dermatologists: "They crowd around like fleas on the world's tough hide, exploring every wrinkle and crease, and try to figure out what makes the animal move." He has, you'll agree, a way with words. In Annals of the Former World, now a thumping 696-page paperback, he turns his travels …

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In close up

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Elemental us

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Little books

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Fieldwork blues

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Yuck by the yard

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Feedback

TRAINS in Britain may be halted because of leaves on the track or the wrong kind of snow, but surely nothing like that could interrupt the clockwork precision of Japanese railways, could it? Well, yes, it could. According to a report in the Yomiuri newspaper, an express train north of Tokyo was brought to a …

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