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8 May 1999

Issue 2185

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The hand in your head

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The twilight zone

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What happened to Costa Rica's cloud forests?

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I know how you feel

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Table of contents

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Chinese herbs prove their worth in leukaemia

THE molecular secrets of a traditional Chinese herbal treatment for leukaemia have been unlocked by researchers in Europe. Laurent Meijer of the Roscoff Biological Station in northwest France and his colleagues examined Danggui Longhui Wan, a mixture of herbal medicines used to treat chronic myelocytic leukaemia. The team found that the active compound in the …

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Missing link

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Plate breakers

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Brainy cell

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Quality control

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Dinner slime

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Fatbuster

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Cleared for takeoff

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Choose your poison

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Nuclear setback

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Pesticide panel falls apart

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Stand-in kidney

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Digging deeper

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Hackers have field day with free Web mail

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Shape shifters

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Come fly with us

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Buoy scouts could warn Japan of tsunamis

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Who's reading your e-mails?

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Technology

Belt bags

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Technology

The big picture

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Technology

GM top twenty

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Winging it

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On the move

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Snoring kills

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Catch 'em young

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Even with the right gene, you might not see green

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Cheep thrills

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Plane deceit

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Flukey frogs

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Algae stole our carbon

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Spectacular display

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I'm blinking fine

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Singapore surround

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Star turn

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Could gamma-ray bursts lead us to ET?

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Cows cloned from a drop of milk

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Gulf War accord

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Implant exits

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Technology

Spaced out

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Open arteries

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The lesser of two evils

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Ouch! That hurt

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Proteins on tap

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Nuclear fallout

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Tobacco defuses an explosive situation

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Greedy bugs

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Cats and dogs

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Hidden sacrifice

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Features

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The hand in your head

DR STRANGELOVE, the mad scientist played by Peter Sellers in the 1964 film, had a problem with his right arm—it seemed to have a mind of its own. Sometimes it would give Nazi salutes, and occasionally it tried to strangle him. Newborn babies face a similar challenge: hand them a rattle and they may accidentally …

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The twilight zone

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What happened to Costa Rica's cloud forests?

Features

I know how you feel

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Land predictions go awry

THE figure makes you stop and think—about 1.5 million hectares of Australian land were cleared for agriculture between 1990 and 1995. That's an area about a quarter the size of Tasmania. The rate of land clearance in Australia is much greater than for any other developed country. But, interestingly, it is about 20 per cent …

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Law of the jungle

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from Melbourne

Books & Arts

The real thing

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Fecal attraction

Books & Arts

Chimp lunch

Books & Arts

Medieval medics

Books & Arts

Word fight

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Key strokes

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Call the experts

Books & Arts

From the year dot

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River of no return

Books & Arts

Bombastic

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

IT'S that time of year again—the time when another crop of spellchecker errors is ripe for the picking. Here is the best of the bunch that readers have sent in. Names as ever provide a rich supply. When Greg Moran fed a document containing the name Rodney Thiele into his spellchecker, he was alarmed to …

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