Ailing after Alvey: The Alvey programme was Britain's big chance to compete in information technology - Brian Oakley, a former director of Alvey, reflects on what went wrong
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When the body takes the strain: Working may be bad for your health - especially if it involves making repetitive movements for hours on end
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Brazil, where the ice cream comes from: The way to save the rainforest is to ignore the trees and sell the other fruits on offer. What effect will a conversion to capitalism have on the forest dwellers?
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Teaching by bad example: Britain's history of erosion
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Nigeria's home-grown dust bowl: Conservation and development
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Ancient faults and modern earthquakes: Britain's recent earthquake happened on a fault that was active hundreds of millions of years ago - Faults of similarly ancient lineage could be the sites of future tremors
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Art on the rocks
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Museum meeting
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Lung cancer hope
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Trabi pushes for a place in the sun
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Skis on the run
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France's don't-knows
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Cop-out
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Waiting for squirrels
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Owl spotted
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Science: Molecule X - the other key to HIV?
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Bends come to the aid of polluted rivers
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CFC clampdown eases pressure on the ozone layer
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Chlorine continues to divide Balkan states
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AIDS epidemic moves south through Africa
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Design flaw cripples Hubble telescope
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Burial mounds planned for over-the-hill reactors
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Britain bans 'natural' food supplement after health fears
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Brussels hits opposition to cuts in basic research
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Lice licence
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Goodbye China, hello Cambridge
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Norway sharpens harpoon for minke whale
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Fuel tank leaks force NASA to ground shuttle fleet
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Technology: Pink powder protects concrete from the damp
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Technology: New X-ray source makes fine line in chips
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Technology: Metal ions mobilised to defeat legionnaires' disease
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Technology: Europe's high-definition TV catches the match
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Science: Solar outbursts startle observers
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Technology: Portable phones ring the globe by satellite
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Science: Primitive slug sported skeletal armour
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Ailing after Alvey: The Alvey programme was Britain's big chance to compete in information technology - Brian Oakley, a former director of Alvey, reflects on what went wrong
Features
When the body takes the strain: Working may be bad for your health - especially if it involves making repetitive movements for hours on end
Features
Brazil, where the ice cream comes from: The way to save the rainforest is to ignore the trees and sell the other fruits on offer. What effect will a conversion to capitalism have on the forest dwellers?
Features
Teaching by bad example: Britain's history of erosion
Features
Earth
Nigeria's home-grown dust bowl: Conservation and development
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