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28 November 1998

Issue 2162

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Guerrilla warfare

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Slaves to the rhythm

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Pulling Power

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Hidden inheritance

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Table of contents

News

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Psychiatric guinea pigs are left in limbo

ADVOCATES for the mentally ill are disappointed by a report from an expert ethical panel which was asked to produce new guidelines for experiments involving patients with psychiatric illnesses. Calls for reform followed high-profile cases of research subjects suffering severe psychotic episodes and even committing suicide (This Week, 20 June, p 20) . The new …

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Sticking point

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Blue for danger

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Copying DNA is no moveable feast

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Grow your own

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Outlaw plants pardoned

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All in a name

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Fit to eat?

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All at sea

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Are drugs really the answer for hyperactive kids?

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Don't mess with me—my cousin's a dinosaur

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Mature cheese

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Cute clusters

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Defenceless

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Inside-out

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Queen gene

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That was no accident

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The Chinese way of death

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Technology

Disposable downtime?

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Was that it?

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Against the grain

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A new sunrise for human spaceflight

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Big Brother badge

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On their bikes

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Swarm enemies

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Smoulder holder

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The directors' cut

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Video e-mail that unpacks itself

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Don't fret

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Keeping tabs on life before birth

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Technology

Fertile answer

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Technology

Reflect on this

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See how they run

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Splitting heirs

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Full blast

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Burning question

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Fast and loose

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Shoot 'em down

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. . . but what do you do with bugs when you find them?

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Venomous response

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Battery boost makes greener cars

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Technology

Turing in the genes

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Coughing up

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Cholera collared . . .

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Against the tide

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Silent witness

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Hercules on ice

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Play it safe

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Collision course

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Opinion

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Pay attention

A WEEK ago, a panel of experts met in Washington DC to hammer out a consensus on one of the most extraordinary drug phenomena of our time—the massive surge in the use of Ritalin to treat children with attention deficit disorder and the related attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The statistics are staggering. Since 1990, the …

Opinion

Features

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Guerrilla warfare

FOR almost four years, research into HIV has been dominated by a single theory about how the virus causes the catastrophic collapse of the immune defences that leads to AIDS. But the consensus on this theory is now crumbling, thanks in part to the work of a Dutch team led by immunologist Frank Miedema. If …

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Slaves to the rhythm

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Pulling Power

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Hidden inheritance

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Scooters turn green

As upwardly-mobile Chinese rush to swap their old-fashioned bicycles for motor scooters, an environmental disaster looms. Last year, more than ten million Chinese purchased scooters and motorbikes, and the market for hot wheels continues to explode. As a result, blue smoke is belching from two-stroke engine exhausts and poisoning the air in cities across the …

Forum

When was the year dot?

Books & Arts

from San Francisco

Books & Arts

I sense therefore I am

Forum

. . . . .

Forum

Avoiding action

Forum

You don't want to see it

Books & Arts

Brain food

Books & Arts

A land marked

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For effect

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Child's play

Books & Arts

Time out

Books & Arts

What's next

Books & Arts

To err is human

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

HAS Peter Mandelson, the British government minister responsible both for high tech and the Millennium Dome, ever tried using a PC to access the new web site which offers a virtual reality tour of his dome ( www.intel.com/intel/showcase/ guide/sites/dome2000.htm )? Feedback followed the instructions to the letter, spent half an hour downloading all the software …

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