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6 October 2001

Issue 2311

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Leap of faith

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Driven to extremes

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Small visions, grand designs

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Technology

Silver screen saver

Hollywood wants cinemas to use huge video projectors to save the cost of distributing prints of its movies around the world. Past attempts relied on bouncing coloured laser beams off mirrors, but they failed because the laser did not reproduce natural colours and had to be dangerously intense. Infineon Technologies of Munich thinks it has …

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One at a time, please

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Alarm on the roads

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Spying on your heart

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Plastic gives holey fibres a new lease of life

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Secrets of the plague

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Quantum leap

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The pain of being a caffeine freak

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Metal mouth

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Baby titans

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Total recall

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How to snarf with the geeks

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Not so super glue

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Cancer catcher

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Plankton power

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Cooled by the Sun

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Guardian angels

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Giant bowling pin knocks astronomers sideways

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Enjoy your meal

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Carry on regardless

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Hide and seek

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Quantum computing takes a step in from the cold

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Beating the ban

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A way forward

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Technology

A hundred years of rubbish

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Cause for alarm

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They may be small but they have a big charge

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Technology

Perfect roast

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Antibodies on the cob

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Hell's kitchen

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Swim for it!

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Dolly helps the mouflons

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Compensation for vCJD

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Look for the cluster

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Can't see the wood

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One month to save a nation

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Worse than useless

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Letter from Quetta

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Invisible enemies

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Opinion

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Westminster diary

FRIENDS tell me they were alarmed by the Swedish findings that pregnant women taking folic acid supplements to cut the risk of birth defects may be more likely to have twins. What's more, according to ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ, twins have an increased risk of developing birth defects (28 July, p 3 and p 7) . The …

Opinion

Damage limitation

Opinion

Don't bomb the roads

Opinion

Features

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Leap of faith

SIX days a week it's just an ordinary room in an ordinary London hospital. But on Tuesdays it becomes a place of nightmares. This is the National Prion Clinic at St Mary's Hospital, the heart of Britain's efforts to solve its CJD problem. Patients are referred here from hospitals in their home town and spend …

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Driven to extremes

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Technology

Small visions, grand designs

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More

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Short sighted

Lessons from a Living Cell: The limits of reductionism by Stephen Rothman, McGraw-Hill, £18.99, ISBN 0071378200 STEPHEN Rothman has spent thirty years trying to get cell biologists to accept his theory for the transmission of cellular proteins across the cell wall over the prevailing theory known as the vesicle model. He hasn't succeeded yet, but …

Books & Arts

Parallel pasts

Books & Arts

Of sausages and steaks

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In my view

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Monkey puzzle

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Out there

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God in science

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Distant fossils

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Sum of its parts

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A lot of water out there

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University challenge

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Regulars

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Feedback

ODDLY ENOUGH , quite a number of readers persist in reading emotion into factual signs—as in "this door is alarmed" (22 September). Following the medical tradition that two cases a syndrome make, and that everyone feels much better when you repeat their symptoms back to them in cod-Greek, we bring you "semiopathy". You can translate …

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