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9 May 1998

Issue 2133

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Into the clone zone

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Bigger is better

A CENTURY ago, Edward Drinker Cope noticed that the average body mass of North American mammals seemed to have increased steadily in the course of their evolution, which he attributed to an innate evolutionary drive towards larger size. Cope's rule was widely accepted for decades, but several recent studies have found no growth trend in …

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Solar tornadoes

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Nibble and burn

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Clouds matter

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Fearless frogs have hearts of stone

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Taken to heart

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TB jab delay may kill eighty million

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Under pressure

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Rocketing costs

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Bang go your ears

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Just hot air

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Suicidal brain cells can be saved

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Launchpad comeback

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Technology

Finders keepers

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Bumbling bees

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Space rats make bad mothers

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Hot waters

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Trial by register

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Fairground rides go to your head

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Precious scum

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Bright future

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Being there

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Web heads

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Superior standard

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Wired video

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Cool and compressed

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The ascent of medallion man

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Experts clash over persistence of pesticide

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He who pays the piper...

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Chemical hypocrisy

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Dolly helps the infertile

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You want to clone? Go ahead

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Space

Whoops, apocalypse

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Lasting damage

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Side effect

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Muscling in

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Cool chocolate

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A plague on arthritis

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The cap fits

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Forever pitch

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Copyright code

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Life on the edge

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Keep off the grass

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Fingers crossed...

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Accidents will happen

THE International Space Station is in money trouble again. An independent assessment has just shown that $7.3 billion is going to have to be added to the $17.4 billion the US has budgeted for the project. With a similar amount coming from Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and other members of the 16-nation partnership …

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Hold the front page

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Easy does it

MIDNIGHT in Berlin, one night in the summer of 1753. A weary man in his fifties, well-dressed but unshaven, sits alone in his dark, quiet study. With trembling hands, he leafs through a thin booklet entitled Essay on Cosmology. It is a manuscript that has shattered his life. Three years earlier, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis …

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Clone Alone

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Into the clone zone

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Welcome to the valley of the genes

MOVE over Silicon Valley. Genome Valley is on the way. With the mapping and sequencing of the human genome well advanced, biotechnology will be the basis of the next boom industry and Australia should not miss out as it did with the Information Technology revolution. That was the heart of the message delivered in eloquent …

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Hearty foods

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Twin triumph

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Look behind you

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The feelgood factor

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from Amsterdam

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Collected works

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The sacred and the mundane

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Giants go on the record

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Cosmic rave

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All work, no play

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No mean feat

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Life, but not as we know it

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Genes in the family

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Imagineers

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Feedback

THANKS to everyone who responded so fulsomely to our request for ideas about things to do with unwanted CDs (18 April). We had assumed that the range of possibilities would be fairly limited, but it now appears that CDs are among the most useful things that exist, second only to hairgrips and Swiss penknives. We …

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