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17 April 2004

Issue 2443

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Riddle of the fronds

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From tyres to neutrinos

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Argentina's bitter harvest

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Brute of Dragon Bone Hill

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Technology

Broadband web link goes wireless

WE ARE on the verge of a revolution that will bring wireless broadband to the masses. Today almost everyone who wants high-speed access to the internet relies on wires connecting them with a telephone exchange. But in about five years' time all you will have to do is switch on your laptop and the web …

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Cutting Edge

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Does it walk? Does it roll? ... no, it rolks

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Hubble's red heir

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Marine bugs have a flair for deep-sea mining

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Relight my briar

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Knead to know

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Wobbling the pirates

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Metal debris threatens craft

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Coming soon: seat by seat subtitles

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Carefree birds see less need to flock

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Wipe away bad memories

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Antibodies break the cell barrier

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Debris points to massive impact

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Fat into bone

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Archaeopteryx turns out to be singular bird of a feather

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How T-rays spot skin cancer

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Glaciers skate on thick water

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Infections explain why our blood groups differ

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Surprise end to star-studded film

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Ladies' fingers give ulcer bugs the slip

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Crab throws light on Titan's big air

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Environment

Stone Age cats made great pets

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Space

Is space rolled up like a funnel?

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Taboos could save the seas

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Brazilian evasion

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Clamour for badger results

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Licence to thrill

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Eyeball this

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Epic countdown

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60 Seconds

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Ending the nightmare

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Sun's halo linked to dark matter particle

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Soundbites

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Osmium's 15 minutes of fame

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'Mad sheep' fears

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Opinion

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Inventive minds

From implantable pacemakers and fusion reactors to laid-back cyclists and X-ray crystallography, ideasjust seem to tumble out of them. Are inventors a different breed? What makes them do what they do? And how come so many of them, in theirZOs and 80s, are still looking at the world with fresh eyes ? ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ talked …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

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Believe it or not

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Growing pains

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And here is the weather for 2006

Opinion

Features

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Riddle of the fronds

Each year, on 14 April, Japanese seaweed farmers gatheron a headland overlooking the Ariake Sea, a deep notch carved out of the southern island of Kyushu. Many of the farmers make their living in the waters below, others travel from coastal towns and villages elsewhere in Japan. They come to celebrate the life of a …

Features

From tyres to neutrinos

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Argentina's bitter harvest

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Brute of Dragon Bone Hill

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Ian Stewart, mathematician

On your bedside table? John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor (Secker & Warburg, 1961) is "one of my all-time favourites – I bought it when I was in the sixth form – which my wife Avril and I are slowly re-reading". It's high comedy, set in Virginia in the 17th century: "Bawdy and brilliant and very, …

Books & Arts

Steve Sanderson, president and CEO of New York's Wildlife Conservation Society

Books & Arts

Healthy benefits

Careers

Sixteen steps to Isaac

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Good for globalisation

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Over his head

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Location, location

Books & Arts

Who's that bird?

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Regulars

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Feedback

SEND in the marine geologists! The Seattle Times reports a skilful assertion by University of Washington marine geologist John Delaney about the relevance of his work – or is it a disguised plea for funding? The ST summarises Delaney's argument thus: "The ability to grow food on land is directly tied to the ocean's motion. …

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