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28 October 1995

Issue 2001

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Little Gems

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Hard maths? No problem

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Invasion of the shapechangers

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Enigma 846: Winners on the left

THE 100 towns, Oneton, Twoton … Hundredton, have just finished a tennis tournament in which every town played every other town once and there were no draws. In my report on the tournament I listed the towns so, Oneton, Twoton, … Hundredton. Then I decided I would like my list to reflect the results as …

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Netropolitan

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Netropolitan – Conservative Party

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These boots were made for thinking

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Green rockets blast off back to the steam age

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Pick-your-own antibodies

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It's a gas

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On the spot report from Jupiter's moon

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Hanging on for sound and vision

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Technology

Journey to the centre of your pain

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Banking on a secure Net link

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Introducing … the ozone-friendly bacteria

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Treating the parts that drugs cannot reach

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Long in the tooth

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Commons reprieve

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On the record

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The magnetism of spirals

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Dung detectives

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Deadly virus

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French tests pass

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Hormone fraud

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Every child a perfect child?

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Working genes step into the spotlight

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Hyperactive particles may hail from radio galaxies

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HIV sets trap for immune cells

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Low life would be at home on Mars

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Beetles show why it pays to have sex

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'Let me through, I'm a scientist'

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Solidarity sways Europe over space station

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'We were wrong' admits Dounreay

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Green groups fall foul of Russian security police

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Three time zones and you're out

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West Coast collision over clean cars

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Seahorses die for traditional cures

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Court challenge over Clipper chip

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Computer cops put the boot disc in

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Privacy at risk as Net goes commercial

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Take a dose of altruism and pass it on

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Pill warning leaves doctors in the dark

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The right to know

HOW can doctors advise their patients when they don't have all the facts themselves? When the Committee on Safety of Medicines announced last week that women who take contraceptive pills containing gestodene or desogestrel could have a risk of thrombosis which is twice that of women on "older" brands, mayhem broke out. Bad timing did …

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Nobody's perfect

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Little Gems

WITHIN a sparkling cut diamond lies a material of extremes. Diamond transmits heat more enthusiastically than a metal, but hardly conducts electricity at all. It is almost totally transparent to infrared and visible light, but hungrily soaks up short ultraviolet wavelengths. It withstands crushing pressures, scorching heat and devastating radiation without complaint. And now there …

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Hard maths? No problem

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Invasion of the shapechangers

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Some like it hot

UNLIKE the Americans or the French, we British do not seem able to make much of our Ice Age heritage. Admittedly we do not have the advantage of the French cave paintings, nor perhaps the American enthusiasm for fossil hunting, but we do have plenty of fossil remains of the Pleistocene safari park megafauna. Of …

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Ideal orbs

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Starry voices

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When killing things is a livelihood

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Mind works

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Time's up

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Same old stuff

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Feeling is seeing

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JP2

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The right time

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All fall down

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Bestsellers from Oxford

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Collected works

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Sorry, it shouldn't happen again …

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Feedback

THIS is the 2001st issue of New Scientist. If you are a regular reader, you will undoubtedly be thinking how effectively and authoritatively the magazine has covered scientific developments over the 39 years since it was launched on 22 November 1956. In all that time, we hear you ask, did New Scientist never get anything …

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