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13 May 1995

Issue 1977

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HIV'S war of attrition

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The race to create an ANTIATOM

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And the Net total is …

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Searching for Alien Earth

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ENIGMA No. 822: All change at the top

ALBION, Borough, City, Rangers and United have played another tournament in which each team played each of the other teams once. Two matches took place on each of five successive Saturdays, each of the five teams having one Saturday without a match. Two points were awarded for a win and one for a draw. Albion …

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Home is where the office is

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Parting of the ways for CDs

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Netropolitan – Replies

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Reaching the parts that inhalers cannot reach

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Video games play havoc with Channel 5

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Smooth operators foil deadly flies

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Netropolitan – Virus

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Netropolitan – Natural Disasters

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Preventing crashes with flashes

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Japan's ancient trees whisper their secrets

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First sighting of Kuiper Belt comets

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Technology

Many pistons make clean work …

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Tracking down El Niño's stormy siblings

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Faded old star puts years on Galaxy

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Hormone warns of early labour

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Forest birds fight for the limelight

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Promising protein is also a killer

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Strange allies launch floating spaceport

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Malaria vaccine

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Fine wines

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Exotic plants put on a good show

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Psychological tests expose sheep dip's lasting scars

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Fabulous fabrics come out of the shadows

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The day the sky caught fire

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Dead wolves

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Ariane deaths

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Chirac attack

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Staying upright

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Whale bacteria polish off poisonous pollutants

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Taking the long view on short sight

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Famine warning staves off African tragedy

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Giant detector to spot cosmic showers

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Snap census for India's tigers

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Global alert over malaria

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Hill of beans triggers chocolate war

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Digital phones put pacemakers off their stroke

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Trout in trouble as carp cross Bass Strait

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Cash cuts could sink Poseidon

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Britain pays to see gene database

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Britain's last gasp

LAST week, summer arrived early in Britain, bringing the worst air pollution of the year. As the Sun shone, nitrogen oxides and ozone rose rapidly above levels regarded as safe by scientists from the European Commission and the WHO. Hospital admissions for people with respiratory complaints soared and asthma sufferers were warned to stay at …

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HIV'S war of attrition

AT LEAST a billion new viruses every day. More than two billion white blood cells destroyed every 24 hours. These mind-boggling statistics, released to the world in January this year, have set the seal on one of the biggest rethinks in the history of AIDS research. The figures come from the first studies to measure …

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The race to create an ANTIATOM

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And the Net total is …

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Searching for Alien Earth

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Can the gusts of Antarctica be harnessed?

FOR MANY years diesel has been the main way of providing power to the scientific bases established in Antarctica by Australia, New Zealand and other countries. But diesel has its problems. It is an expensive fuel because it has to be transported long distances to reach the Antarctic. And there is always the possibility of …

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Unfair patents and fair cops

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First, preserve your site

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No beginners, please

Books & Arts

Blowing up the world

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Edison and Eastman rise from the dead

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Last exit from Prozac City

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Rich pickings

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Life's Lego

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Wanted: dead or alive

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Time is, time was, time will be: About Time

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Feedback

HAVE YOU come across those clever handbags with a magnetic clasp that shuts the bag without you having to fiddle around with clips and catches? Well, as it happens, they're not so clever – in fact, they probably ought to come with a health warning on them. As a colleague on this magazine has found …

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