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20 February 1999

Issue 2174

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Total control

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Galactic visionaries

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Hold it right there

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What's this volcano trying to tell us?

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News

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Mixed messages

A NEW class of drugs hailed by some as the best hope of defeating cancer is experiencing mixed fortunes. The drugs giant Bristol-Myers Squibb has backed out of plans to develop the drug angiostatin. But a related drug, endostatin, is looking promising enough for the US National Cancer Institute to announce that it wants to …

News

Full circle

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Lonely hearts

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Final curtain for pirated songs

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Into Africa

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Record payout

News

Flu fighters

News

Watch out, there's a Weddell seal about

News

It's a winner

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A little nutmeg

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Horse fever

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Rum find

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Yum-yum

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Technology

Ethical shopping

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Back to basics

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Your secret's safe

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In the dark

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Artful dodgers

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Turning traitor

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Arab resistance to HIV remains a riddle

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Too much too young

News

Cutting edge

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Slow motion

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Four-pronged attack

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Red-handed

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To err is human…

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Clever antennae could save lives in the air

News

Bug attack

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The lost world

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Don't sit tight

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Daddy doesn't live here any more

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Beating the system

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Less is more

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Under pressure

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One big earful

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Green for danger

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Technology

Microwave buses

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Technology

It's a scoop

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Technology

Doggy bag

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Frankenfears

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Anatomy of a food scare

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Dying so we might live

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Opinion

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Monster mash

EVERY cause needs a martyr. And in Arpad Pusztai, the scientist at the centre of the row over transgenic potatoes that has engulfed Britain, opponents of GM foods seem finally to have struck gold. Not since King Ludd and his followers marched on the cotton mills of Lancashire has there been such virulent hostility to …

Opinion

Features

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Total control

START with the polyester leisure suit tucked in the back of the wardrobe and make your way around the house. Guaranteed, the place will be full of plastics and artificial fibres. Shampoo bottles, water pipes, hi-fi casing, kitchen worktops, guttering—the 20th century would hardly work without them. But despite their huge variety, most plastics and …

Features

Galactic visionaries

Features

Hold it right there

Features

What's this volcano trying to tell us?

Features

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A theory of everything

ALBERT EINSTEIN once said: "The most incomprehensible thing about the Universe is that it is comprehensible." The Universe is unbelievably large and contains an unthinkable number of things. Yet we can model much of its history, account for its structure, predict its future and understand the behaviour of a bewildering variety of the objects it …

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Rivers of doubt

Forum

World Wide Wrinklenet

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. . . . .

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What goes around comes around

Forum

Fries with that shroud?

Books & Arts

Egg on her face

Books & Arts

Write right

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Odd birds

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Beyond the pale

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Raw nerve

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Fairy tales

Books & Arts

Malignant Sadness by Lewis Wolpert

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

WE CAN never know what Polly the sheep and her sister Molly feel about being famous clones. But it is possible to surmise that one aspect of their situation they don't like much is the tests they have to endure to find out just how alike they are. In the most recent of these, experts …

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