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27 June 1998

Issue 2140

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Small will be beautiful

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A handful of light

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Day of the sparrow

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Buried treasure

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The sleeping eyes have it

THE number of rapid eye movements (REM) that depressed people make during the dream phase of sleep may determine whether they will respond to sleep deprivation treatment, say researchers in California. When people with severe depression are deprived of half a night or more of sleep, about half snap out of their depression until they …

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Joint action

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Sticky problem

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Primordial suncream

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Early birds?

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Shrinking balls

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Sites of wisdom

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Costly cotton

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Game, set and match

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They won't go away

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Pennies from heaven

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Safe sex triumphs

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Spreading the load

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Driven to destruction

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Snails pay in blood for survival

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Tight fit

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Sharp intake of insulin

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Font of all knowledge

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Heavens, it's digital

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Shadowy details

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The crypton factor

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From falling ticker tape to flying insects

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Free-for-all

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Friendly fire

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Years of living dangerously

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US calls for sex-change survey

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Stabiliser stabilised

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Wired gadgets

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Fading radicals

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Ears to the wall

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Wireless in water

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Night terrors

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Frosty Triton basks in heatwave

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Smoke-free zone

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High hazards

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Catch them young

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Windows pain

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Memories stuck in the machine

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Hybrid vigour

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Donors needed

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Tobacco tax fails

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Blood money

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Living in fear

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Life's big break

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After the blasts

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Tokyo, we have a problem

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A great leap forward

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With friends like these, who needs enemies?

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Model medicine

"SHOW me a drug without adverse effects and you are showing me a placebo," a former chair of Britain's committee on drugs safety once declared. A year ago, everyone was talking about fenfluramine and Redux, hailed as the ultimate diet pills—only to find they were suddenly withdrawn, amid claims that the drugs can also lead …

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Perils of the plough

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Small will be beautiful

THERE are many ways of bringing about change. Some take bloody acts of violence. Others alter our lives through persuasive argument. Clark Nguyen would also like to see our lives change, but he has his own way of achieving it—he aims to do it without us even noticing. "The way to make something permeate society …

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Lure of the orient

EARLIER this month, when back in Australia for medical research week, Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty regularly told anyone within earshot that Australia was in great danger of losing its best and brightest young researchers overseas. A combination of limited opportunities here and the lure of job security and better salaries overseas could prove irresistible, the …

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A job at the front of the class

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from Brussels

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Come the millennium . . .

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A little latitude won't kill us

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Collected works

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Cheap thinking

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Emotional costs

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Dirty legacy

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Starman

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Magic Albert

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The good life

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Keeping us captive

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Tick, tock, tick, tock

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To know you is to love you

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Body basics

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Feedback

AS THE World Wide Web inexorably expands to the point of taking over the Universe, hundreds of pages come into existence every day. Not all of them are useful and some serve no purpose at all. These functionally challenged sites are the subject of the Useless pages http://www.go2net.com/internet/useless/index.html , set up in 1994 after Paul …

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