Issue 2217 | Magazine cover date: 18 December 1999

18 December 1999

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Crowded minds

News

Do girls really make you sick?

Opinion

Curiosity killed the Furby

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The pirate's tale

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Run, radish, run

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The Midas touch

Features

News

Do girls really make you sick?

THERE may be some truth in the old belief that nausea during early pregnancy means the baby will be a girl. Johan Askling and his colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found that 5926 women with severe first-trimester nausea gave birth to 56 girls for every 44 boys. Normally boys outnumber girls by 51 …

News

Goggle eyes

News

Lean and mean

News

High hazards

News

Smell of death

News

Danger destroyed

News

Skip the warm-up

News

Fuel fault delays space repair

News

Rocket rethink

News

Cash for labs

News

Fluttering away

News

Telltale tail

News

Bluetooth stops you getting all tangled up

News

The jury's out

News

Less is more

News

Blame your weight on the big chill

News

Feel the force

News

Beyond hope

News

Just a mirage?

News

How to sound out the Net's big talkers

News

I will survive

News

Molecular chopsticks

News

Sea sickness

News

Europe's X-ray telescope is riding high

News

Out of mind

News

Talking zapper

News

Ionic hairbrush

News

Blast from the past

News

Hear this . . .

News

Cells under siege

News

Missing clues

News

Crops without profit

News

Technology

Get it down

News

The great beyond

News

Hope revives for divide and die cancer drugs

News

In memoriam

News

Two down...

News

Does dope help?

News

Storm brewing

News

Mind what you say on your mobile

News

Making eyes

News

Technology

Look before you eat

News

Technology

Fiddling on the roof

News

Sorry about that

News

Beyond the stars…

News

Keep that spray

News

Opinion

Curiosity killed the Furby

SAY what you like about Furbys, with their heavy plastic eyes and the way they sing "Whee!" just before they die, but they have had one beneficial effect on the world. They have brought back hacking. Not hacking in the sense of teenaged kids cracking their way into a website, but hacking in the old …

Opinion

One previous owner

Opinion

Humans

Westminster Diary

Opinion

Fabulous junk

Opinion

False economies

Opinion

Features

Crowded minds

AT FIRST the unhappy 33-year-old-let's call her Marnie-didn't stand out from the hundreds of patients that psychiatrist Don Condie saw every month at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Indeed, he treated Marnie for depression for two-and-a-half years without ever suspecting her secret. Then her mother died and Marnie began to reveal her true selves. …

Features

The pirate's tale

Features

Run, radish, run

Features

The Midas touch

Features

Bestsellers from Berkeley

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Books & Arts

Knowledge is power

Books & Arts

Tragic twist

Books & Arts

An accidental man

Books & Arts

Bright sparks

Books & Arts

Telling tale

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

ONE of the showcases of Britain's millennium celebrations is the London Eye, the huge Ferris wheel dominating the Thames close by the Houses of Parliament. Some may disagree, but Feedback thinks it is a dramatic structure entirely in keeping with its millennial role. Or is it? Bookings for trips on the wheel can already be …

This week's magazine

18 December 1999

On the cover

Crowded minds

The pirate's tale

Run, radish, run

The Midas touch

Table of contents

News

Do girls really make you sick?

Goggle eyes

Lean and mean

High hazards

Smell of death

Danger destroyed

Skip the warm-up

Fuel fault delays space repair

Rocket rethink

Cash for labs

Fluttering away

Telltale tail

Bluetooth stops you getting all tangled up

The jury's out

Less is more

Blame your weight on the big chill

Feel the force

Beyond hope

Just a mirage?

How to sound out the Net's big talkers

I will survive

Molecular chopsticks

Sea sickness

Europe's X-ray telescope is riding high

Out of mind

Talking zapper

Ionic hairbrush

Blast from the past

Hear this . . .

Cells under siege

Missing clues

Crops without profit

Technology

Get it down

The great beyond

Hope revives for divide and die cancer drugs

In memoriam

Two down...

Does dope help?

Storm brewing

Mind what you say on your mobile

Making eyes

Technology

Look before you eat

Technology

Fiddling on the roof

Sorry about that

Beyond the stars…

Keep that spray

Opinion

Curiosity killed the Furby

One previous owner

Humans

Westminster Diary

Fabulous junk

False economies

Features

Crowded minds

The pirate's tale

Run, radish, run

The Midas touch

More

Bestsellers from Berkeley

Knowledge is power

Tragic twist

An accidental man

Bright sparks

Telling tale

Regulars

Feedback

The Last Word