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10 July 1999

Issue 2194

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Beyond words

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Don't watch it, wear it

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The power of one

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Fido stays faithful to the end

MAN'S best friend can stay a friend for life, even after years of separation, according to biologists in Pennsylvania. William Carr and his colleagues at Beaver College in Glenside tested the memory of dogs who lived with one owner as puppies before being moved to new families. In some cases, nine years had elapsed since …

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Treasure troves

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Surprisingly slow

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Backbreaking

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Chromosome alone

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A giant leap

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Must do better . . .

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Glitch in space

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Retesting the tube

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All together now

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Stay one step ahead of the monster mould

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Off target

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A real cliffhanger

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Why labs must reset their clocks

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Reap what you sow ...

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Die, boss man

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Technology

Creature comforts

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Buoys watch for whales at risk

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Off key

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Forewarned

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Virus unmasked

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Brain food

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Tip off

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Great barren reefs

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Low sperm counts passed on through IVF

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Dip damage

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Field of dreams

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Poisonous friend

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Microwave ice cream

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Showing the strain

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One less hazard on the road to giving up

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Acting on impulse

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Technology

Write way up

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Technology

Sites saved

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Technology

Tanning disc

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Shopping with feeling

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The long goodbye

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Search engines can't keep up

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Clearing the mind

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Hot iron, cold sea

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Lights out

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Fight the hype

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Suicide squad

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No sale

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Slaves to the status

Feeling oppressed by work? You're in good company. Last month, a health magazine survey of some 1500 men found nearly half of them complaining that their jobs dominated their lives. As it happens they were British, but they could have come from any industrialised nation. Stress caused by work was driving some 44 per cent …

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Westminster diary

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On course for Creative Research 101

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Dry future

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Hey, good-looking

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The world of If

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Other worlds

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Earth

The riddle of the sands

BUFFETED by the might of the hot Khamsin wind that sweeps across the Egyptian Sahara, the mountainous dunes of the Great Sand Sea are the stuff of legends. Here, ancient armies lie buried and the fabulous wealth of lost cities awaits discovery. But in the 1930s, these myths came under threat. Explorers arrived with camels, …

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Beyond words

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Don't watch it, wear it

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Only connect

Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything by Leonard Warren, Yale University Press, £25, ISBN 0300073593 Information Ecologies by Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O'Day, MIT Press, £19.50, ISBN 0262140667 Lasting fame is a rare beast. Out of the billions born since history began, only a handful of the great, the good and the celebrated …

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Feedback

BECKY TALYN at the University of Maine in Orono has a very special relationship with the fruit flies in her lab. She records their love songs and then plays them back to make the flies horny. At first Feedback was a little worried to discover this. But Talyn insists her obsession with the erotic sounds …

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