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26 September 1998

Issue 2153

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Mastering the game

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On thin ice

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That's me in the middle

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Life

Sensitive flower

Features

Table of contents

News

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Flying start

SIX years after they created the first inorganic fullerenes, Israeli chemists have made minuscule magnets structured like buckyballs and nanotubes. These new magnetic materials could increase the amount of information stored on a hard disc by a hundred times or more. The inorganic fullerenes made by Reshef Tenne and his colleagues at the Weizmann Institute …

News

Disappearing worlds

News

Penguins make great party animals

News

Heart start

News

Shrink wrap

News

Phantom moves

News

Antiviral coffee

News

Salt shaker

News

When Nobel dreams are too hot to handle

News

Viral bloodlust

News

Speed reading

News

Lost and found

News

What a waste

News

Technology

Sudden conversion

News

Piscine plague

News

While stocks last…

News

School's out

News

Foreign lessons

News

A fast clip

News

TV's easy rider

News

Look, we're on the box

News

Flying start

News

Unleash the rust-busters

News

Technology

Swallow this

News

Technology

Telling tubbies

News

Technology

PAN minds your PINs

News

Mop it up

News

Slave labour

News

For your ears only

News

Swinging clubbers

News

Video to go

News

Vein hope

News

Can't take the heat

News

Unfit to eat

News

Stressed mother, stressed child

News

Messy eaters

News

Suicide notes

News

Self help

News

Prime suspect

News

Smoke-free profits

News

All in a name

News

Lazarus probe

News

The hole truth

News

Cracked it!

News

Easing the agony

News

Opinion

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The depressing truth

IN the 1980s it looked as though research into human genetics would revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of all manner of diseases. But in the case of mental disorders, it has so far created more problems than it has solved. This is the glum subtext of a report published this week by Britain's Nuffield Council …

Opinion

Correction

Opinion

Spare time for sale

Opinion

Features

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Mastering the game

JOHN HOLLAND spends his summers in a house in the woods near the shore of Lake Michigan, a stone's throw from the Canadian border. He describes his hideaway as "a place of peace, long horizons and the ever-changing face of nature". This seems the perfect setting for a man who draws so much inspiration from …

Features

On thin ice

Features

That's me in the middle

Features

Life

Sensitive flower

Features

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Volunteering to help

THIS month Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), a leading development aid charity, celebrates its 40th year. Its central mission is to send skilled and experienced volunteers to work with communities in the developing world. Over its four decades of existence the charity has sent more than 23 000 people on such a mission. Currently there are …

Careers

Not that kind of poker

Forum

Missing link

Forum

. . . . .

Forum

Out of the laps of babes

Forum

Imagination's eye

Books & Arts

Form a queue

Books & Arts

Second look

Books & Arts

from San Francisco

Books & Arts

Mind manipulation

Books & Arts

Banishing the ghosts

Books & Arts

Forward thinking

Books & Arts

Futures past

Books & Arts

In the year 2525

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

IT SEEMS that NASA's ambition knows no bounds. Feedback has learnt that it will soon be soliciting ideas for research and development in what it calls "breakthrough propulsion physics". Proposals that aim to "advance physics to address critical unknowns, make-or-break issues, or curious effects" will be encouraged. Several goals are highlighted, the most interesting being …

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