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17 July 1999

Issue 2195

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Back on track

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Burning clouds

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Listen, we're different

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Programmed at birth

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Troubled waters

PEOPLE displaced by the massive Three Gorges Dam being built on China's Yangtze River are likely to face epidemics of infectious disease, say public health experts from the US and Australia who have visited the region. Once finished, the dam will create a reservoir 600 kilometres long. At least 1.4 million people will have to …

News

Found: Fiji's elusive giants

News

Ask the ancestors

News

Buried aliens

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The secret language of mantis shrimps

News

Bloody ending

News

Ebola fightback

News

Gotcha!

News

Smelly bat

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Indecent exposure

News

Out to launch

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Have a heart

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Gone for good

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Superbugs are beating at the gates

News

Bug link to MS

News

Africa's badlands

News

Technology

Spaced out

News

Dropping a bombshell

News

It's very strange, but it's not quantum

News

Hello, boys

News

NASA plans on having a smashing time

News

Super heavy

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Happy ever after

News

Before the madness

News

Turning off hunger

News

Technology

Steady does it

News

Technology

Psychedelic phones

News

Spies are US

News

Return to sender

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Clever pump

News

Are your eyes the key to a fortune?

News

Power plants

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Cows in the Net

News

Technology

How low can you go?

News

The sea gliders

News

Killed by kindness

News

Healthy brew

News

Here am I, sitting in a leaky tin can

News

Max has got your number…

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High-speed clash

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Space balls

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DNA detectives

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Smoked out?

News

Clone news

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Stealing a march

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How will it end?

News

Opinion

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Westminster diary

LIKE the 7th US Cavalry in days gone past, good Labour MPs have been asked to ride to the government's rescue. A motion before the House of Commons congratulates the government on its manifesto commitment to reduce Britain's carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent, based on those in 1990, by 2010. And it lauds …

Opinion

Age of Innocence

Opinion

Being there

Opinion

Space

So near and yet . . .

Opinion

Gone to ground . . .

Opinion

. . . but sharing a burrow

Opinion

Features

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Back on track

AS THE electric trolley bus sweeps quietly and cleanly through Winterthur, just north of Zürich, I try to imagine the person I'm about to meet. The notion of a Swiss engineer who is also a steam train enthusiast conjures up an image of someone between a boring banker and a socially-challenged adolescent in an anorak. …

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Burning clouds

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Listen, we're different

Features

Programmed at birth

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Time for a change

Philip Robson has brought his excellent Forbidden Drugs up to date. In the public jousting to condemn a small group of drugs as evil, addictive and a threat to civilisation, Robson's cool look at the history, content and use of drugs is refreshing. He reveals the flaws in the abolitionists' domino theory which contends that …

Books & Arts

Playing in the Parc

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Professor of cybercool

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Bestsellers from Melbourne

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Masterclass

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Wild swimmers

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Art of space

Books & Arts

Regulars

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The Last Word

Settling the problem Question : When I was a small boy some fifty years ago, on special occasions and if I had been good, I was given strawberries covered in the thick layer of cream that rose and settled on the top of a pint of bottled milk. These days, my daily delivered pinta remains …

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