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30 October 1999

Issue 2210

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Let there be light

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Toy story

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The Quantum Inquisition

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Health

Mind rhythms

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Making faces

BIOLOGISTS have shown that a well-known protein also determines facial features such as the distance between the eyes. Using chick embryos, Jill Helms and Diane Hu at the University of California found that the lack of a protein called sonic hedgehog resulted in deformities such as cleft lip, whereas an excess led to a widening …

News

Networking

News

Equality makes for more violent fights

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Getting heavy

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Lost and found

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Toxic block

News

Rogue gene hunt

News

Monster debut

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Final fling

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Lean and mean

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Should they have known ?

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Recurring nightmare

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Tinted view

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Getting critical

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Danger, they're dropping like flies

News

Radical hearts

News

While you sleep . . .

News

Digital disaster

News

Fake veins deliver the heart's desire

News

Fill her up

News

Technology

Get organised

News

Spam hits the fan

News

Staying power

News

Technology

No tongues please

News

Technology

A quicker cuppa

News

Hold the radicchio

News

US ready to rethink rules for engineered food

News

Sweating it out

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Going under

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Rivals clash over rights to our genes

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Humans

Sexually repressed

News

Humans

Fighting sleep

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Humans

Hear you are

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Humans

Keep your genome to yourself!

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Humans

Not so fragile

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Where no craft has gone before...

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Furby is innocent

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Tear drop test

News

Halloween horror

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Perils of prevention

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Metal mayhem

News

Technology

They're fintastic

News

Keep your distance

News

Chickenshack blues

News

Opinion

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Clean power goes public

RENEWABLE energy has certainly been in the limelight recently—if not yet powering it. First we had David Abba of the Sustainable Energy Industry Association telling the East Timor Reconstruction Forum in Canberra last week that green power was the best way to re-establish an energy supply in the province quickly. Then the cars in the …

Opinion

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Opinion

Sound bites

Opinion

Not for sale

Opinion

Time lord

Opinion

The common good

Opinion

Features

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Let there be light

SIGNOR Alfredo Pergolizzi brushed a speck of dust from the lapel of his tailored Italian suit and clasped his hands in front of him. Leaning across the desk in his Vatican office, he smiled expansively at the young film maker and said, "Signor Debevec, I am pleased to inform you that we've decided to allow …

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Toy story

Features

The Quantum Inquisition

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Health

Mind rhythms

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Avian Norfolk

At 530 pages, not counting appendices, Moss Taylor's The Birds of Norfolk is a book in the grand Norfolk tradition established by Bernard Riviere in 1930. It's not a book for the faint-hearted, but the keen ornithologist and avid reader will love it. The book was selling at a £10 discount at the Norfolk Wildlife …

Books & Arts

Selborne revisited

Books & Arts

Witty economics

Books & Arts

The Great Auk by Errol Fuller

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from Washington

Books & Arts

On speed

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

PARENTS be warned. If your children plan to go round the neighbourhood at Halloween, knocking on doors and shouting "Trick or Treat!", the California Poison Control System at the University of California, San Diego, suggests you take a few precautions. Its advice sheet for parents lists seven steps to keeping children safe on 31 October. …

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