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6 November 1999

Issue 2211

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Jobs for the taking?

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A serious showman

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Myths for sale

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What's wrong with the right whale?

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On a roll

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The Mozart Effect

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Earth

Snowball Earth

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Nerve repair lets people breathe again

PEOPLE who face spending the rest of their lives on ventilators may be able to breathe on their own again with the help of a new surgical technique. To help people breathe normally when they're disabled by spinal cord injuries, surgeons often implant a pacemaker that stimulates the phrenic nerve, which cues the diaphragm's breathing …

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Will you get stuck in the Matrix?

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Gagged killer bugs stay sweet

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A shot in time

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Silent saboteurs

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Call to drop test

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Proton blame

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Nile virus recedes

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Why speeding penguins make breathtaking leaps

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First fish

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Fresh coating

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Magic sponge

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Big splash

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Peace of mind

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The molecule that makes more of itself

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Under a cloud

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Too young?

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Riding the wave

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The worms that turned into mega-breeders

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Woodwork

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Technology

Inventive resources

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Sunshine home for retired chimps

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Pay-per-view Net

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Heal thyself

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Knowing the score

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A free lunch for Britain's surfers

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Home on the rig

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Mangroves protect coasts from natural disasters

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Monster protest against Frankenscience

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You can share my hair

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What's the beef?

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You can do it

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Terror tactics

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Head for the hills

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Sniffing out trouble

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Dodging rockets

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Mind

Two sides to it

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Mind

The more the merrier

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Mind

Fooled 'em again

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Mind

Why early means surly

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Mind

Walkie-talkie

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Peeling away the past

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New-wave spies

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Technology

Cultured meat

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Technology

Shocking habit

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Technology

Dart defences

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Blind faith

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Opinion

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Confidentially yours

You say you are not a typical cyberlibertarian. How do you define this term? And why don't you see yourself as one? Cyberlibertarians tend to see the Internet as leading to the abolition of governments. Their idea is that given the advent of anonymous e-mail, digital cash and so on, the state will no longer …

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Humans

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Business as usual

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Evolve or die

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How to sell yourself

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Talk to the people

Opinion

Features

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Jobs for the taking?

NOW is a great time for many graduates preparing for a career in science. With more job vacancies about than there's been for years, unemployment is dropping fast. University students due to graduate in 2000 have particularly bright prospects. Recruitment managers are out and about touring the university campuses and making presentations to undergraduates. The …

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A serious showman

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Myths for sale

Features

What's wrong with the right whale?

Features

On a roll

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The Mozart Effect

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Earth

Snowball Earth

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Wild Wild West

The Bonehunters' Revenge by David Rains Wallace, Houghton Mifflin, $25, ISBN 0395850894 THAT little fracas at the OK Corral aside, few feuds of the Wild West can have matched the one between Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope that began in the mid-19th century. Yet these two weren't gunslingers, but palaeontologists, and it was …

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Feedback

MICROSOFT cannily hides all kinds of information inside documents created in the latest versions of Word. The hidden details include who created the files, what type of computer they used and when they did their work. Presumably, the intention is to help corporate users keep track of changes in the documents, as well as to …

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