Issue 2314 | Magazine cover date: 27 October 2001

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27 October 2001

Issue 2314

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Features

Finger of suspicion

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Surf's up and up and up

Opinion

Respect the stones

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Finger of suspicion

Features

Desert harvest

Features

Did the Egyptians build pyramids with kites?

Features

The writing's on the screen

Features

Mental gymnastics

Features

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Surf's up and up and up

GOOD news for surfers, bad news for beach lovers—California's waves are getting bigger. Research has shown Atlantic waves growing over the past few decades, but data for the Pacific has been patchy. Now Nicholas Graham from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego has used a collection of wind speed data to back-calculate stormy …

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Nipplecam

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Escape the death star

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Thought that counts

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Frying the flag

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Lazy does it

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Perfect tee for newbie golfers

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The heat is on

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Play to win

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Technology

Home base

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Foam'll fix it

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Technology

Perfect points

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Technology

Hold it right there

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Head in the clouds

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Environment

A giant leap for lemurs

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Evolve or die

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Health

Full circle

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Other Earths

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Safely tucked up

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NASA in need

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Health

The great brain blunder

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Health

Here we go again

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Red-hot legacy

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Stinky drinkies

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Stormy stars

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TB boost

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Worst-case scenario

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Cancer row

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Health

Out of the blue

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Health

Vital moments

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Health

Bioterror catches hospitals napping

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Countdown to crisis

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Health

Trail of terror

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Opinion

Respect the stones

GIVEN the apocalyptic times we're living in, you could be forgiven for having missed this peculiarly English row. But I make no apologies for raising it—especially since this weekend will be crucial to what happens next. First some history. People have been arguing about the environs of Stonehenge for at least a century—and no wonder. …

Opinion

Back to basics

Opinion

One BSE fiasco that can't be buried

Opinion

Confusion reigns

Opinion

Washington diary

Opinion

Features

Finger of suspicion

A police constable investigating a burglary at a crockery warehouse in the Clerkenwell district of London one September night in 1909 made a gruesome discovery. The warehouse yard was protected by a high wooden gate with a row of iron spikes along the top. As the constable flashed his lamp along the top of the …

Features

Desert harvest

Features

Did the Egyptians build pyramids with kites?

Features

The writing's on the screen

Features

Mental gymnastics

Features

Know your enemy

Germs by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad, Simon & Schuster, $27/£18.30, ISBN 0684871580 IT seemed pretty illogical at the time. On 11 September, a band of terrorists hijacked airplanes and crashed them deliberately into buildings in the US, killing thousands. A week later, Germs—a recent history of biological weapons—sold out across the US. …

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Educating Charles

Books & Arts

Corpse: Nature, forensics and the struggle to pinpoint time of death by Jessica Snyder Sachs

Books & Arts

John Casti

Books & Arts

The Fred and Chandra show

Books & Arts

Indiana Jones he wasn't

Books & Arts

Speaker for the dead

Books & Arts

Carl Djerassi

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

SINCE 11 September, press releases describing research findings have often borne the hallmarks of hasty rewriting to incorporate the word "terrorism" in the headline or introduction. Work on epidemiology or toxicology that has been going on for years is suddenly billed as a response to the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. A story from …

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This week's magazine

27 October 2001

On the cover

Finger of suspicion

Desert harvest

Did the Egyptians build pyramids with kites?

The writing's on the screen

Mental gymnastics

Table of contents

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Surf's up and up and up

Nipplecam

Escape the death star

Thought that counts

Frying the flag

Lazy does it

Perfect tee for newbie golfers

The heat is on

Play to win

Technology

Home base

Foam'll fix it

Technology

Perfect points

Technology

Hold it right there

Head in the clouds

Environment

A giant leap for lemurs

Evolve or die

Tired of troubleshooting? You need a computer with an immune system

Health

Full circle

Other Earths

Safely tucked up

NASA in need

Health

The great brain blunder

Health

Here we go again

Red-hot legacy

Stinky drinkies

Stormy stars

TB boost

Worst-case scenario

Cancer row

Health

Out of the blue

Health

Vital moments

Health

Bioterror catches hospitals napping

Countdown to crisis

Health

Trail of terror

Opinion

Respect the stones

Back to basics

One BSE fiasco that can't be buried

Confusion reigns

Washington diary

Features

Finger of suspicion

Desert harvest

Did the Egyptians build pyramids with kites?

The writing's on the screen

Mental gymnastics

More

Know your enemy

Educating Charles

Corpse: Nature, forensics and the struggle to pinpoint time of death by Jessica Snyder Sachs

John Casti

The Fred and Chandra show

Indiana Jones he wasn't

Speaker for the dead

Carl Djerassi

Regulars

Feedback

Regulars

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