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5 July 1997

Issue 2089

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

A very smart dummy

Features
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Ancestral echoes

Features
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Chemical choreography

Features
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No runway necessary ...

Features

Table of contents

News

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Lethal inheritance

THE risk of a woman developing inherited forms of breast cancer depends on which of her relatives has had the disease, says a report in the International Journal of Cancer (vol 71, p 800). A statistical analysis by Paul Pharoah of the Institute of Public Health in Cambridge suggests that a woman has twice the …

News

Injury time

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Mental democracy

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Alien world

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Jurassic babies

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Cloning vox pop

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Going critical

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Climate upset

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Tough on plastics

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Forest grumps

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If it lasts, ban it, says Sweden

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The ultimate in cool

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Roswell dummies

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Local heroes

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It's all out there

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Happy birthday

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Money, that's what I want

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Spotless with lasers

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A switch in time

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Penny pushing

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Tasty waste

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Power skating

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What did you say?

News

Murdoch keeps key to digital gateway

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Disease stalks the veld

News

Crunch time for Mir

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Claims, not cures

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Divorcee opens genetic treasure chest

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Talon spotting

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Electric barrier

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Harmless antifreeze

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Here I am

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Pirates ahoy

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Dodgy dinners

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And now hear this . . .

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A superfault's melting moment

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Trading in torture

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A dangerous pathway...

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Iron Mike's bite

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Cyberporn law struck down

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HIV hazard

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Online medicine

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Tropical tip

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Forgeries foiled

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A cooler hum

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Slugging match

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Slimline toys for the Navy boys

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Flashy gold rings

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Strolling by numbers

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Brain invader

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Opinion

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Editorial : A bad case of déjà vu . . .

THERE are two problems with the idea that smoking cannabis may prime the brain for dependence on harder drugs (see p 4 ). Number one: there is no direct evidence. Number two: if cannabis does behave this way, then by the researchers' own logic one would expect alcohol and nicotine to do the same, for …

Opinion

Editorial : Pricing the final frontier - Deciding what to do about the troubled Mir space station is fraught with difficulty

Opinion

Features

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A very smart dummy

Surrey A GREENISH-YELLOW disembodied head, perched on a neck 30 centimetres high, takes pride of place in Sandra Bell's laboratory. Soon it will be getting kicked, punched, bounced on the floor, hit with a hammer or placed inside a speeding car about to collide with a wall. But for now it stares mutely into space, …

Features

Ancestral echoes

Features

Chemical choreography

Features

No runway necessary ...

Features

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Sticky solutions

TRY imagining everyday life without glue-shoes would fall apart, books disintegrate and furniture collapse. More surprisingly, solar panels would drop off satellites and planes would fall from the sky. Adhesion is only one branch of zygology, the science of joining things together-other branches include welding, riveting and all forms of mechanical joining. Chemical welding , …

Inside Science

Review : A sense of wonder

Books & Arts

Review : The Earth explodes

Books & Arts

Review : Electron celebrity

Books & Arts

Review : Heretical reader

Books & Arts

Review : War's baby?

Books & Arts

Review : That's right, no, left

Books & Arts

Review : Mine, all mine

Books & Arts

Review : Heating's bill

Books & Arts

Review : Conversations with Kurt

Books & Arts

Review : The stirring . . .

Books & Arts

Review : . . . and the unshaken

Books & Arts

Review : From smogs to cigs

Books & Arts

Review : Sleepwalking to disaster

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Books & Arts

Forum : Long back and sides, please

Forum

Forum : The centre will not hold

Forum

Thistle diary :

Forum

Regulars

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Feedback

FEEDBACK WAS impressed by the BT advertisement currently appearing on British television. It is all about ISDN, teleconferencing, the paperless office and other wonders of modern telecommunications. So we called the BT freephone number (0800 800 800) for more information. The telesales operator gladly took our address and promised to put a brochure in the …

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