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10 April 1999

Issue 2181

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It was the best of times . . .

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Pocket rocket

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Masses and molasses

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Health

The strain is in the brain

Features

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News

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Technology

It's a game of numbers

WITH ALMOST half a billion people worldwide using mobile phones, even a tiny increase in cancer rates would cause many deaths. To see if any such problem exists, epidemiologists are finalising plans for the biggest ever attempt to discover whether people who use mobiles are more susceptible to brain tumours. The $6 million study—organised by …

News

Technology

Explaining the inexplicable

News

Technology

If you're still worried...

News

Technology

The intelligent antenna

News

Technology

Taking history forward

News

Nature's deep-sea divers aren't even out of breath

News

Tight squeeze

News

Tiny fakes

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You can't miss it . . .

News

Final stand

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Tainted catch

News

Technology

Get your head round this...

News

Spanner in the works

News

Poles apart

News

When too much sex is exhausting

News

Megablasts

News

Yawning shows we're just big babies

News

Seedy world

News

Tadpole genes show how the blood flows

News

Burning rubber

News

Pie in the sky

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All clear

News

Willing or not

News

Cull cutback

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Heat, test and serve

News

Japan's junkyard spacecraft lifts off

News

Back to Chernobyl

News

Technology

Read my lips

News

Technology

Seeing the light

News

Technology

Clocking on

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One cell heals all

News

Bubble bubble…

News

Breed bunnies and feed the world

News

Heart-stopping

News

Films without frontiers

News

Robotic buddies

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No runway, no problem

News

A clean, green power machine

News

Melissa's mayhem

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Victims of vaccines

News

Opinion

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Dial F for Fear

IS YOUR hair drier killing you? Think about it. Every time you use it, you expose your head to a prolonged blast of heat. And an electromagnetic field. Have the manufacturers done the research needed to prove there is no risk of brain cancer or memory loss? Did you think to check? Perhaps you've been …

Opinion

Features

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It was the best of times . . .

IT'S THE final act and the Prince of Verona takes the spotlight to utter: "A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished; For never was a story of more …

Features

Pocket rocket

Features

Masses and molasses

Features

Health

The strain is in the brain

Features

More

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Hang on to your hat

IF ANYTHING is guaranteed to draw the crowds, it's a state-of-the-art white-knuckle ride. So what more popular way would there be for London to celebrate the millennium than to build the biggest, fastest scariest ride in the world? What we are actually getting is the £750 million Millennium Dome that the government has commissioned for …

Forum

Siren call

Forum

Fame is just around the corner

Books & Arts

from Amsterdam

Books & Arts

. . . . .

Forum

Daily cuppa lands us in hot water

Forum

Dyson on Darwin

Books & Arts

Think number

Books & Arts

Wet and dry

Books & Arts

Ed's eye

Books & Arts

World's web

Books & Arts

Classic cut

Books & Arts

The point of physics

Books & Arts

The moral maze

Books & Arts

Air Apparent by Mark Monmonier

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

HERE'S a tip for anyone hoping to become the president of the United States. Pay $70 to reserve a website under your name, and do it as soon as you possibly can. Independent candidate Steve Forbes neglected to take this precautionary step back in 1997, when he was already thinking of a third crack at …

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