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4 October 1997

Issue 2102

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Nothing but the truth

Features
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Resistance is futile

Features
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Indelible evidence

Features
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White hot on green

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Murderous molars

Features
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Picture of a killer

Features
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Good vibrations

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God of the quantum vacuum

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Decline and fall

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Noah's flood

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Table of contents

News

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Great balls of fire

OBSERVATIONS with the Hubble Space Telescope are adding weight to the idea that gamma-ray bursters are fireballs expanding at nearly the speed of light in distant galaxies. The bursts of gamma rays have puzzled astronomers for more than two decades ("God's firecrackers", New Scientist, 31 May, p 28) . Earlier this year, ground-based telescopes spotted …

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Moving house

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Dino wishbone

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The sting

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Surfer, heal thyself

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How green is my planet?

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Overfuelled

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Fusion record

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No sex bias

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Arctic standoff

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Norway goes critical over floating reactors

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And all because…

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However hot, just bury the lot

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Errors of emission

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Nobel gas

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News

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Gagging order

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Invisible worlds

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No hiding place

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Smart key

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Pearly genes

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Stone from sludge

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Communications breakdown

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Just the job for a buoy

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Live and dangerous

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Should this turtle be on the critical list?

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Sight to the blind

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Mad cow link confirmed

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Seeing red

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Wrath of nature

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Drug controls

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Grave robbers

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Muck into medicine

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A piece of the action

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Male hormone finds work in scaffolding

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Written in stone

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Incendiary policies

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Crimes of passion

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Diabetic rats

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Route of all happiness

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Into the blue yonder

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It's none of their business

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Lingua franca

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Eaten alive

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Cancer setback

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Trust me, I'm a computer

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Opinion

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Editorial : Don't die of recklessness

IN MEDICINE as in war, the line between courage and foolhardiness is often very fine—but not in the case of the American AIDS doctors who want to inject volunteers from their own ranks with a live HIV vaccine. We now know that the vaccine is potentially far more dangerous than anyone thought (see page 5) …

Opinion

Editorial : The neighbour from hell - Indonesia must be held to its promises on forest clearance

Opinion

Features

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Nothing but the truth

Picture tomorrow's detective, armed with his arsenal of hi-tech gadgets: instant DNA analysers on a chip, instantly scannable molecular and fingerprint databases of entire countries, implants that pinpoint a convicted felon. As scientists toil to bring this vision closer, cynics might wonder when research will be widely applied to a somewhat low-tech but equally crucial …

Features

Resistance is futile

Features

Indelible evidence

Features

White hot on green

Features

Murderous molars

Features

Picture of a killer

Features

Good vibrations

Features

God of the quantum vacuum

Features

Decline and fall

Features

Noah's flood

Features

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Forum : Leave it to the locals

CORAL reefs and mangrove forests can provide food, income, coastal protection and building materials for millions of people. But the economic benefits of these resources are being rapidly depleted as a result of over-exploitation. As farmlands shrink and lose fertility, people migrate to the coast to find jobs. As a result, human populations along tropical …

Forum

Antipodes : Nervous times for research centres

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Thistle diary :

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Bestsellers : from Oxford

Books & Arts

Forum : Captain Eco rides again

Forum

Review : What a tangled web we weave

Books & Arts

Review : A total eclipse of the heart

Books & Arts

Review : Brain stretcher

Books & Arts

Review : Marrs attacks

Books & Arts

Review : Five at the movies

Books & Arts

Review : Smarty pants

Books & Arts

Review : I just know

Books & Arts

Review : A brief history of history

Books & Arts

Review : Vroom, vroom

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Review : Halibut from heaven

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Review : Babel's cornerstone

Books & Arts

Review : A total eclipse of the heart

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

HOW CONFUSED folk must have been in the early days of electricity. There was a great deal of misinformation circulating as to the nature and possible uses of this miraculous new fluid. What exactly was one supposed to do with it? Feedback is dying to know what dark experimental deed lay behind one particular entry …

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