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13 September 1997

Issue 2099

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Cybercrash

Features
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Mind-altering bugs

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Chemical slippers

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Swimming for dear life

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News

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Martian arts

This week the Mars Global Surveyor is due to complete its journey to the Red Planet. It is over 750 million kilometres away, but the Web brings it a few clicks nearer. As with Pathfinder, NASA has made available all you could ever want to know about the satellite. See http://mgs-www.jpl.nasa.gov/ and http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/marsurv.html for the …

News

News

News

Pride and prejudice

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Will compost cleanse rusty rivers?

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The buzz on climate

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Gold fillings

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Subterranean blues

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Science fails career women

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Blindness creates extra sensory perception

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Bug blueprint

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Persistent rain

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Grass roots

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Exotic debut

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The great escape

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Older mums age more slowly

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Cancer catch

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The Mall, where's that?

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Freak frogs

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Sorry, the mutton's off

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Light steps for tiny computers

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The power of cool

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Ground hogs

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Net speak

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Insider dealing

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Methane monitor

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Taxi service

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Computers just say no

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Wise monkeys hear evil

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Hunt the puncture

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That's torn it for Cassini

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Net gains

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Time's squares

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Chip shops thieves

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Reduced charge

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Relaxing company

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Cosmic coincidence

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Birth calls for a cool head

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Radioactive attics

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Voices from the past

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Double standard bedevils video disc

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The enemy within

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Cars earn their keep

News

Reviled drug goes into rehab

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In hot water

News

Bird on the brink

News

Sex and violence

News

Opinion

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Editorial : A long life and a fertile one

BY NOW, you would have thought scientists would have worked out why women go through the menopause. Well, they haven't. On the face of it, the claim that women who have children later in life tend to live longer than normal ( "Older mums age more slowly" ) is simplicity itself. Women who have a …

Opinion

Editorial : No divine right - The days are gone when the man in the white coat always knew best

Opinion

Features

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Cybercrash

North Carolina THE Ford Taurus is cruising along peacefully, when an identical vehicle suddenly appears directly in its path. Neither driver has time to change course, and the inevitable happens: the two vehicles collide head-on. The impact sets off airbags that inflate and cushion the upper bodies of both drivers, but nothing protects their legs, …

Features

Mind-altering bugs

Features

Chemical slippers

Features

Swimming for dear life

Features

More

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Review : Fixed star

Dava Sobel celebrates a year on Britain's bestseller lists with Longitude (Fourth Estate). She visits Britain at the end of October for a 12-city tour of book readings and signings.

Books & Arts

Review : Hindsight's failure

Books & Arts

Review : Greening cities

Books & Arts

Review : Storm warning

Books & Arts

Review : Ancient feats

Books & Arts

Review : Them bones

Books & Arts

Review : Numbsense and blindsight

Books & Arts

Viral Sex: The Nature of AIDS by Jaap Goudsmit

Books & Arts

Review : Ada's daughters

Books & Arts

Photography

Inside Science

Thistle diary :

Forum

Antipodes : Flour power

Forum

Forum : Publish or be damned

Forum

Review : Statistics undamned

Books & Arts

Review : Mind-blowing

Books & Arts

Forum : What's up, doc?

Forum

Bestsellers : from Washington

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Review : Infinite wisdom

Books & Arts

Review : One way ticket

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THIS WEEK, it gives us pleasure to announce the results of the Feedback Summer Competition. Readers were asked to imagine a world in which genetic engineering has advanced to the point where not only plants and animals but humans too can be genetically modified at will. What should this power be used for? Are there …

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