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19 September 1998

Issue 2152

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Bioarmageddon

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Pregnant pause

Opinion

Necessary suffering?
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Bioarmageddon

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Let's get emotional

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Dig this

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Ghosts in the sky

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Pregnant pause

HORMONE-blocking drugs could stop premature labour, say Australian researchers who have successfully delayed normal labour in sheep by a week. Many babies die because they are born prematurely, but physicians can't delay it by more than a day or two. Adam McCluskey and his colleagues at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales decided …

News

Dawn of life

News

Welcome delay

News

Endless days

News

Slow burn

News

Set in stone

News

Birds reveal the secret of their plumage

News

I spy with my flying eye

News

Rare-earth sandwiches offer nonstop digital movies

News

Technology

Quantum leap

News

Let's go surfin' to the music store

News

Quiet please

News

Blanket ban

News

Sugar solution

News

Accidents at birth

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It's gruesome work, but it'll help put killers behind bars

News

Hot spots left to cool

News

Technology

Apple compatible

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Paths of glory

News

What the doctor ordered

News

How many patients are killed by their cures?

News

On the right track

News

Jaundiced view

News

Sniffing out disease

News

Watery grave

News

Too many eggs in one basket

News

A deadly dilemma

News

Who owns the clones?

News

Superstar sheep makes her mark

News

The chase is on

News

Seeds of death

News

Chain reaction

News

Technology

Tunnel visions

News

Technology

Spirited performance

News

Technology

Game plan

News

Coded heat thwarts friendly fire

News

By Jove!

News

Pill power

News

Blame the old man

News

Killing the messenger

News

Breathe easy

News

Live wires

News

Refuseniks reprieved

News

Viagra is go

News

Food fight

News

Opinion

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Necessary suffering?

Most people would think twice about sanctioning an experiment on animals in the wild that might lead to suffering. And in civilised nations, most government officials would see only trouble and strife in approving such research. Yet there are times when such experiments are justified and it is cowardly not to sanction them. A case …

Opinion

Cleaner than clean

Opinion

Features

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Bioarmageddon

IT BEGINS with a threat. A terrorist group declares that unless its demands are met within 48 hours, it will release anthrax over San Francisco. Two days later, a private plane flies across the Bay, spreading an aerosol cloud that shimmers briefly in the sunlight before disappearing. Scenario one: thousands are killed in the panic …

Features

Let's get emotional

Features

Dig this

Features

Space

Ghosts in the sky

Features

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No gold yet for being green

TWO years from now we will be slap-bang in the middle of the year 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Today, 19 September, will be day 5. One of the more interesting, indeed curious, aspects of the preparation for the Olympics has been the involvement of Greenpeace. The activist environmental group is not renowned for throwing …

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Mott's the man

Books & Arts

Big wit

Books & Arts

Popcorn and &pgr;

Books & Arts

from Cambridge

Books & Arts

Forever young

Books & Arts

Aliens like us

Books & Arts

Beach balls

Books & Arts

What is history?

Books & Arts

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Fallacy football

Forum

Questions first, bombs later

Forum

Price of freedom

Books & Arts

Call me triceratops

Books & Arts

Bang, you're dead

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

WHILE roller coaster enthusiasts travel the world trying the latest white knuckle rides, French doctors are wondering if the high G-forces are a health risk (see This Week, 9 May, p 12) . So Feedback recently grabbed the chance to ask two people who should really know: aircrew at the Tornado training station at RAF …

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