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16 September 1995

Issue 1995

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To catch a wimp

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The cod that disappeared

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Enigma: Four graduates No. 840

WHEN four engineering graduates left university they hoped to keep in touch by joining the same firm of international contractors. As luck would have it they could not have been more wrong; they were posted to different parts of the world equidistant from one another. If the radius of the Earth is 3956 miles, how …

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Netropolitan – comments

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Skin cells hold promise for wasted muscle

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Golden opportunity for shrinking solar cells

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Sticky thinking comes unglued

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Did genetic 'garbage' spur primate evolution?

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Jurassic frog leaps into the record books

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Greedy galaxies grow fat by guzzling neighbours

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Heathrow, we've lost the hydraulics

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Have a Flipping Nice Day

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Sonic hedgehog tells left from right …

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… and paves the way to brain cell transplants

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Amateur makes fools of the experts

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It's curtains for puny human brain

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Not freezing but drowning

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Widgets at the bar spark bitter row

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Reptiles don't leave evolution to chance

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Brighter future for vegetables

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Careless talk is good for commerce

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Albatrosses wander into danger

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Death and the devil's water

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Winners and losers in the information age

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Galápagos tortoises under siege

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Pesticide tree ends up in court

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Rockall mud richer than rainforest

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Rooting out cassava's poison

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Teachers are primary target for TV campaign

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Lawless loggers 'will go on plundering paradise'

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Did tooth belong to friend of Boxgrove man?

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US turns blind eye to bomb flights

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Dig deep for Darwin

MOST people could tell you where William Shakespeare's birthplace is to be found. Stratford-on-Avon has built a major tourist industry around bard memorabilia, and even Anne Hathaway's cottage is lovingly preserved. But even though Charles Darwin is almost as famous as Shakespeare, few know where he lived – or that his house is now in …

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Death of the personal computer?

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Oh look he's brought me a present

SILAS is a friendly-looking golden dog with floppy ears and a pointy tail. If you hold out your hand, Silas will come up to you wagging his tail and sit down, just like a real dog. He will even bring you a ball and try to get you to play. But Silas is not real. …

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Environmental lung disease

STRANGE as it may seem, we spend all our lives immersed in a sort of fluid. Not the wet sloshy stuff that comes out of the tap, but air, which, by virtue of its viscous properties, also qualifies as a fluid. We tend to forget that it is there until it reaches gale force, but …

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Monsieur Chirac engineers a sea change

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Chemical origami

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Doing God's work?

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Diverse migrations

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Cold thoughts

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Bestsellers from Oxford

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Awful truth about Friday the 13th

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It's our fault

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Fear the rage

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The seeds of an uncertain future

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Dedicated followers of fashion

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Back to basics

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It's life, but not as we know it

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Collected works

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Double take on a fake

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Feedback

HERE ARE more of the runners up in the Feedback Summer Competition. Readers were invited to describe a famous historical event which would have turned out very differently with the benefit of modern scientific or technological knowledge. We published the winning entries and four of the runners up last week. Here are 10 more: Defiring …

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