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31 October 1998

Issue 2158

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The power, the glory and the energy

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Autism stalks the animal world

AUTISM was believed to be solely a human condition, characterised by a limited ability to communicate and a lack of response to others. But it seems animals can be autistic too. Neurologists have bred long-haired albino guinea pigs with the same neurological abnormalities seen in some autistic people. With these defects in the cerebellum, the …

News

Dolly leads the way

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Porn for all

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Unfit for duty

News

Close encounter

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Spying on sickness

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Chemical cornucopia

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Beam me up

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The bugs that just refused to die

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On the wing

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Keeping track

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Ready to wear

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Fingers in many pies

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Steam cleaning

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Starvation diet

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The surprising truth about women's hearts

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Natural order

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Do bacteria hold the key to preventing paralysis?

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No turning back

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Technology

Smoking gun

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This pill washes whiter

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Right on target

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Beyond hope

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No spare parts

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Gene readers go to court

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Inside story

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It's what the best movie stars will be wearing

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Aerial nightmare

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Technology

Cup winners

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Technology

Modules in orbit

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Technology

Eyes right

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Hay is no help

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Lifting the lid

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Go West, Young Woman

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Hot seafood

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Faster than a speeding light beam

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Fighting back

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The East burns

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Eggs on ice

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Spam scam nets newbies

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Mutiny against Monsanto

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Britain to proceed with caution

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Deflating inflation

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Great vibes from big surf

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Lunch in five?

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Opinion

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Much ado about something?

IN EUROPE, the debate over genetically modified foods is on the boil. Biotechnology companies are falling out with one another while governments are considering blanket bans on the commercial growing of genetically engineered crops—even though the same crops are already being harvested and sold in the US and elsewhere (see p 4) . Much of …

Opinion

Features

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The power, the glory and the energy

From the discovery and recovery of basic resources such as oil and natural gas to the delivery of electricity to every home, careers are there to be made in all aspects of the energy business. The industry encompasses everything from nuclear power, to hydroelectricity and the conversion of energy from wind, waves and tides. The …

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Dinosaurs roam the mind

WHERE do dinosaurs exist: in fossil beds, among the human-ish cartoon characters of The Flintstones or in the imaginations of palaeontologists? As a paid-up cultural relativist, W. J. Thomas Mitchell explores the second and illuminates the third, while appearing unconcerned with the first. The cover of his The Last Dinosaur Book(University of Chicago Press, $24.50, …

Books & Arts

from Washington

Books & Arts

A dream of electric cocktails

Forum

Making the grade

Forum

. . . . .

Forum

To market, to market …

Forum

Food for all

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Sunken treasure

Books & Arts

Pain in the toe

Books & Arts

Dead certs

Books & Arts

Eating people

Books & Arts

Frankenstein's heirs

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Life in our hands

Books & Arts

Goodbye Atlantis

Books & Arts

Strange Fruit

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Live and let Live

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Brave new rose

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Apocalypse when?

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Running wild

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Future Shock

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Regulars

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Feedback

EARLIER this month we mentioned a paper in Psychological Science by four authors called Bahrick, thinking that authors with the same name were unusual. But readers have pointed out that the American science-humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research has also been investigating this phenomenon, dubbing it "multiplicity of monikers". The September issue of the journal …

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