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28 June 1997

Issue 2088

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Flipper's secret

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Little and large

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Packing them in

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Escape from Mars

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Table of contents

News

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Science : Tibetan ice forces climate rethink

DURING the last ice age, the climate may have fluctuated much more in temperate zones than it did near the poles, say scientists who have studied the most ancient ice yet discovered outside polar regions. This unexpected finding turns current thinking on its head: standard computer models predict that warming and cooling was greater at …

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New homes needed for Air Force chimps

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Technology

Patents : Pay per search

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Technology

Patents : Garbage in . . .

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Technology

Patents : Sound and vision

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Technology

Patents : Late viewing

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Technology

Patents : Soft money

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Technology

Patents : Tagged packets

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Science : Tadpoles rule the nursery by behaving badly

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Science : Attention problem tracked in twins

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Science : Were Aussie birds first to sing?

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Science : Home-grown sea shells reveal nature's trick

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Science : Light's spooky connections set distance record

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Technology

Technology : Can't see the tanks for the trees

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Technology

Technology : No more washday whites that come out pink

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Technology

Technology : Camera goes on smog patrol

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Technology

Technology : Net surfers set a cracking pace

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology : Pocket PC latecomer makes link that Microsoft missed

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Technology : Industrial waste can be great for the garden

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Science : Iron-clad proof gives changelings mass

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Blaze prompts rethink on trauma counselling

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Doubts remain over tobacco pact

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Life

Obesity may lie in the genes…

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…but pot bellies are made in the womb

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Fight to ban mountain railway goes to court

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German law embraces alternative medicine

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Secrecy row over slimmers' drug

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Net recipes blamed for boom in uppers

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Don't buy this bird

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No surrender

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Sky watch

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Sentient beings

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Death defined

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Into the open

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Cleaning diesels

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Lost in cyberspace

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A varied social life keeps colds at bay

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Failing airframe speaks volumes to engineers

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Gene tests pose challenge for privacy guardian

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Ivory plan splits elephant experts

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Opinion

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Editorial : Only one side to be on . . .

WASHINGTON just doesn't seem to get it. As Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair put it at the Earth Summit this week: "No country can opt out of global warming, or fence in a private climate." Not even the US. For six months now, government officials in the US have been warning that, whatever the President …

Opinion

Editorial : Passing the megabucks

Opinion

Features

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Flipper's secret

THE US Navy should be preening itself. After all, it has just rolled out the showpiece of its arsenal, the brand new Seawolf attack submarine. The fastest sub in the world, it's a technological marvel and a devastating weapon. The Seawolf's sophisticated store of electronic and acoustic equipment for "seeing" underwater is pretty impressive, too. …

Features

Little and large

Features

Packing them in

Features

Escape from Mars

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Review : Find all

Many people leave their real identity behind when they go online, but Naked In Cyberspace by Carole Lane helps redress the balance. The book is a gold mine of sources of Net-based personal information about pretty much anyone. Interested in Barbra Streisand's political contributions? No problem. The emphasis is on the US, but the book …

Books & Arts

Review : Spacefaring caravan

Books & Arts

Forum : This womb for hire?

Forum

Washington diary : Sticky solutions for a new century

Forum

Review : …and then to Titan

Books & Arts

Review : Good companion

Books & Arts

Review : Take an unbuttered paperback

Books & Arts

Review : The word on His Billness

Books & Arts

Review : Teaching's mission impossible

Books & Arts

Review : No GUTs

Books & Arts

Forum : Night of the Arctic hunters

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Collected works

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Books & Arts

Review : Mars, ahoy…

Books & Arts

Review : Butchers of Boxgrove

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

JACK CUNNINGHAM , the new Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, is not one of Britain's most popular politicians. This may have something to do with his enthusiastic support for the Sellafield nuclear complex, which is the largest employer in his Copeland constituency. Friends of the Earth now wants the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to …

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