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A matter of taste

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Boozing by numbers

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Just one glass

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What's your poison?

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No substitute . . .

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Pickled livers

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Real men don't drink

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Grog of the Greeks

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Star attraction

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Beastly drunk

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Skinny drinking

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The gene in the bottle

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Desperate remedies

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Jane behaving badly

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Table of contents

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Mirror image

BACTERIA living in silver mines could be used to make cheap optical coatings, says a researcher in Sweden (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 96, p 13 611). Tanja Klaus at Uppsala University found that Pseudomonas stutzeri extracted silver from ores and synthesised particles up to 200 nanometres in size. The crystals, many …

News

Fat attack

News

Canine cops

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Death by fungi

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Danger money

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Who's listening?

News

Get ready to rock

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Unhealthy habit

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Gone in a blink

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Hard as nails

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Triple hinge

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Left guessing

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Cells with rhythm keep us breathing

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Voles' last stand

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All at sea

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Technology

Trade wars on the Web

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Safe to spread

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In the mood

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Technology

Facial fir

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Technology

Power of silence

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Technology

Charged pills

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Killing the agony

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Unwrite this

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Jumping gene flash

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Slippery slope

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The stinging seas

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Now gourmets may guzzle in safety

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Now you see it . . .

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Free for all

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Mini mobiles

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Wicked weedkiller

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Sliced by ice

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Over in a flash

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Cheeky test

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Bubbles go squeak

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Relative values

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Price of protection

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Panicked penguins

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Megablasts

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Dip disease

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Jurassic spark

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Freezing future

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Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

ONE of NASA's worst moments came on 23 September. The Mars Climate Orbiter, on its way to study the weather on the Red Planet, entered the Martian atmosphere at the wrong inclination and was lost (New Scientist, 2 October, p 4). But the day after was perhaps even worse. That's when word circulated that the …

Opinion

Computing crop yields

Opinion

Pushing it

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American dream

Opinion

The barman's tale

Opinion

The drinks are on us

Opinion

Writing on the wall

Opinion

Features

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A matter of taste

FLINTY, big, earthy, charming, smoky, lean, brilliant, delicate, raspberryish—there's no end to the ways of describing one of the world's favourite tipples. But there are some terms that you will never see on the label of a wine bottle. If your flinty Loire white is going brown it is maderised, a problem caused by too …

Features

Boozing by numbers

Features

Just one glass

Features

What's your poison?

Features

No substitute . . .

Features

Pickled livers

Features

Real men don't drink

Features

Grog of the Greeks

Features

Star attraction

Features

Beastly drunk

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Skinny drinking

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The gene in the bottle

Features

Desperate remedies

Features

Jane behaving badly

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Fun in a bottle

A few friends, a few drinks, a generous pinch of Drinking Games, and what do you have? A party, if a rather busy one. The 82-strong compilation, for adults only, covers the usual selection, from Fuzzy Duck to the Matchbox game. A useful resource for determined drinkers with poor memories. Published by Summersdale, £3.99, ISBN …

Books & Arts

Alcoholism: The Facts Donald Goodwin

Books & Arts

The Alcohol Textbook edited by K. A. Jaques, T. P. Lyons and D. R. Kelsall

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Golden century

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Bestsellers from London

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God's astronomers

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Feedback

BE VERY careful what you write in e-mails to CompuServe subscribers who have refused to upgrade to the new 2000 service. A complete stranger could end up reading personal or even libellous messages. As we reported on 28 August, CompuServe subscribers who upgrade to the new 2000 system will almost certainly lose their original e-mail …

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